Op-Ed: Back In The Good Old Days, People Died Of Diseases All The Time And We Didn't Make A Big Deal About It

David P

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Jul 29, 2021, 12:08:18 PM7/29/21

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Op-Ed: Back In The Good Old Days, People Died Of Diseases
All The Time And We Didn't Make A Big Deal About It
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Keith Willshaw

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Jul 29, 2021, 3:26:08 PM7/29/21

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I take it you neve heard of the Spanish Flu Pandemic then, they made
rather a big thing of it as I recall.

Take a look at these pictures taken at the time and you will see a lot
of similarity with how things look now, lots of facemasks for example
and social distancing with reduced capacity or closure on indoor venues.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/historical-images.htm

George Black

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Jul 29, 2021, 3:57:55 PM7/29/21

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Yup.
And the various Plagues didn't go unnoticed in Europe....

Keith Willshaw

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Jul 30, 2021, 9:59:51 AM7/30/21

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On 29/07/2021 20:57, George Black wrote:

>
> Yup.
> And the various Plagues didn't go unnoticed in Europe....

Not to mention the cholera pandemics, polio and rampant tuberculosis. In
the mid 20th century every large town and city had its TB sanatorium,
polio hospital and isolation hospital. Clean water and good sanitation
ended the cholera problem , vaccination stopped polio and tuberculosis,
not to mention smallpox which is now offically extinct. The first
vaccine for that was developed by Edward Jenner in 1796

By the time the fifth cholera pandemic hit most major British and US
cities had cracked the clean water and sanitation issues so got off
pretty lightly but it killed over 280,000 in Russia and another 120,000
in Spain.

Going back to Covid-19 here in the UK we have around 80% of the adult
population now fully vaccinated so although there are still lots of
cases around the rate of serious illness is low and deaths are running
at around the 0.5 to 1 per 100,000 people in the US,UK and EU. About the
same as common or garden influenza. Its now more of an inconvenience
than a killer thanks to the efforts of the companies such as Pfizer,
Astra Zeneca etc who developed them in record breaking time.

George Black

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Jul 30, 2021, 4:05:49 PM7/30/21

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Yup. We had nearly a year off school thanks to the last Polio epidemic.
Did it all by correspondence school......

Byker

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Jul 30, 2021, 9:20:39 PM7/30/21

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On 29/07/2021 17:08, David P wrote:
> Op-Ed: Back In The Good Old Days, People Died Of Diseases
> All The Time And We Didn't Make A Big Deal About It
> https://babylonbee.com/news/op-ed-back-in-the-good-old-days-people-died-of-diseases-all-the-time-and-we-didnt-make-a-big-deal-about-it

In Grandpa's day, it was considered perfectly
normal for men to die in their fifties...

Byker

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Jul 30, 2021, 9:22:10 PM7/30/21

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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message news:se10kl$fot$1...@dont-email.me...

On 29/07/2021 20:57, George Black wrote:
>>
>> Yup.
>> And the various Plagues didn't go unnoticed in Europe....
>
> Not to mention the cholera pandemics, polio and rampant tuberculosis.

Don't forget diphtheria, typhus, and typhoid fever...

Byker

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Aug 1, 2021, 6:06:08 PM8/1/21

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"George Black" wrote in message
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>
> Yup. We had nearly a year off school thanks to the last Polio epidemic.
> Did it all by correspondence school......

George Carlin must've been clairvoyant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gLLZ_D1Lqw