05-06-2020, 10:29 AM
(05-05-2020, 10:36 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:My Point being is that no one, without exception has seen a disease like COVID19 before, and everyone is flying very much by the seat of their pants.
Us, as an intelligent being, have the ability to write things down and go back through generations to learn from situations like this.
The 'spanish' flu is one such example.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/15/us/ph...index.html
Quote:The virus spread to Philadelphia on September 19, 1918, through the Philadelphia Navy Yard, UPenn states. In a matter of days, 600 sailors had the virus.
Yet Philadelphia didn't cancel its Liberty Loan Parade, scheduled for just a little more than a week later. Meant to be a patriotic wartime effort, the parade went on as scheduled on September 28, bringing 200,000 Philadelphians together.
By October 1, there were 635 new cases in Philadelphia, according to UPenn.
Philadelphia was one of the hardest-hit US cities. More than 12,000 people died in six weeks, with about 47,000 reported cases, according to UPenn. By the six-month mark, about 16,000 had died and there were more than half a million cases.
Quote:St. Louis, for example, canceled its parade while Philadelphia did not. In the end, the death toll in St. Louis did not rise above 700, according to the CDC.
The Spanish flu spread throughout the world and had 3 peaks, philadelphia basically being responsible for one with their refusal to follow the guidelines.
Everyone KNEW the guidelines, but people thought they were better than them (*looks at trump*) and now they are being made to look silly.
