Remember the year 1968 ?

[DigitalDrifter]

Tet Offensive
MLK assassinated
RFK assassinated
Apollo 8's orbit of the moon
Chicago 1968 Dimocrat convention riots
100,000 Americans killed by the Hong Kong Flu
Nixon wins the...…………………………………………….WAIT ! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ?!!!! 100,000 Americans killed by a flu ? WTF ?

I'm sure those of you who were alive remember how all of the schools were closed ?
How stores and restaurants were closed ?
How we were all social distancing ?
How we all had to wear PPE ?
How the economy was closed, and unemployment was off the charts and how the stock market tanked, and millions of Americans lost everything they had worked for because Dimocrats demanded we all stayed home, so Nixon wouldn't be elected ?

RIGHT ?

Mortality[edit]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that in total, the virus killed one million people worldwide.[11]

United States[edit]

The CDC estimated 100,000 people died in the U.S.[12] However, fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:[13]

1. some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
2. the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
3. improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
4. the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.

Hong Kong flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JoeMoma]

I was there, but I don't remember.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I was there, but I don't remember.

Me neither, and I don't even remember my parents warning us kids about it.

 

[Dick Foster]

Funny thing I don't remember the flu but I do remember the other stuff and joining the Air Force in 1968. I actually joined in 67 but I went active in 68 and had to swear the oath again.

 

[Unkotare]

The OP claims to “remember” the year 1919 as well, so take his words with the biggest grain of salt you can find.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I was there, but I don't remember.

I'm fuzzy on some parts myself.

 

[Polishprince]

I remember the Blacks scheduling riots after MLK Jr. got whacked in Memphis. But the blacks were pretty smart about it, they didn't choose to have them in Italian controlled areas, as the wise guys wouldn't have put up with that shit.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

The OP claims to “remember” the year 1919 as well, so take his words with the biggest grain of salt you can find.

Huh ?

 

[OldLady]

Tet Offensive
MLK assassinated
RFK assassinated
Apollo 8's orbit of the moon
Chicago 1968 Dimocrat convention riots
100,000 Americans killed by the Hong Kong Flu
Nixon wins the...…………………………………………….WAIT ! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ?!!!! 100,000 Americans killed by a flu ? WTF ?

I'm sure those of you who were alive remember how all of the schools were closed ?
How stores and restaurants were closed ?
How we were all social distancing ?
How we all had to wear PPE ?
How the economy was closed, and unemployment was off the charts and how the stock market tanked, and millions of Americans lost everything they had worked for because Dimocrats demanded we all stayed home, so Nixon wouldn't be elected ?

RIGHT ?

Mortality[edit]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that in total, the virus killed one million people worldwide.[11]

United States[edit]

The CDC estimated 100,000 people died in the U.S.[12] However, fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:[13]

1. some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
2. the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
3. improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
4. the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.

Hong Kong flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

What this argument ignores is that the current Virus has killed 50,000 in two months WITH social distancing and WITH closing businesses and WITH closing schools. Just think for a minute how many it would have killed WITHOUT all that work to keep us from being close to each other. Imagine it.

 

[The Original Tree]

Tet Offensive
MLK assassinated
RFK assassinated
Apollo 8's orbit of the moon
Chicago 1968 Dimocrat convention riots
100,000 Americans killed by the Hong Kong Flu
Nixon wins the...…………………………………………….WAIT ! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ?!!!! 100,000 Americans killed by a flu ? WTF ?

I'm sure those of you who were alive remember how all of the schools were closed ?
How stores and restaurants were closed ?
How we were all social distancing ?
How we all had to wear PPE ?
How the economy was closed, and unemployment was off the charts and how the stock market tanked, and millions of Americans lost everything they had worked for because Dimocrats demanded we all stayed home, so Nixon wouldn't be elected ?

RIGHT ?

Mortality[edit]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that in total, the virus killed one million people worldwide.[11]

United States[edit]

The CDC estimated 100,000 people died in the U.S.[12] However, fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:[13]

1. some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
2. the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
3. improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
4. the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.

Hong Kong flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Current flu deaths are at 70,000.

 

[bluzman61]

Tet Offensive
MLK assassinated
RFK assassinated
Apollo 8's orbit of the moon
Chicago 1968 Dimocrat convention riots
100,000 Americans killed by the Hong Kong Flu
Nixon wins the...…………………………………………….WAIT ! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ?!!!! 100,000 Americans killed by a flu ? WTF ?

I'm sure those of you who were alive remember how all of the schools were closed ?
How stores and restaurants were closed ?
How we were all social distancing ?
How we all had to wear PPE ?
How the economy was closed, and unemployment was off the charts and how the stock market tanked, and millions of Americans lost everything they had worked for because Dimocrats demanded we all stayed home, so Nixon wouldn't be elected ?

RIGHT ?

Mortality[edit]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that in total, the virus killed one million people worldwide.[11]

United States[edit]

The CDC estimated 100,000 people died in the U.S.[12] However, fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:[13]

1. some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
2. the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
3. improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
4. the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.

Hong Kong flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Great post, thanks. I remember very little from that year, being just 7 years old at the time. I DO remember the TV show Gilligan's Island, and parts of Get Smart. I THINK it was the year I first heard the music of the Beatles, I have snippets of memories of watching the movie Help! with my family. I wasn't into watching sports yet, I distinctly remember becoming interested in watching the Cubs on TV the next year, in 1969. I don't remember much about school then, other than I think I did pretty well in all subjects. I don't remember actually going to any movies as a family, this didn't become a big thing for us until about 1971. I believe this MAY have been the year when a huge tornado hit Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. We were visiting my grandma and grandpa (who was still at work), when the cyclone hit. I remember being VERY scared, we went down into the basement of the house to wait it out. I distinctly remember how DARK it got at like 4 in the afternoon. Luckily the house was unscathed. My grandpa said the tornado hit on his way home from work. He and several others got out of their vehicles and took cover in the ditch by the side of the road. I remember that my dad also got caught it in. He was doing his trucking job around Chicago's suburbs when it hit. He was able to pull his rig to the side of the side of the road and wait things out. He, like my grandpa, were luckily unscathed.

 

[The Original Tree]

The plandemic seems to be going well for globalist scum!

 

[Polishprince]

Tet Offensive
MLK assassinated
RFK assassinated
Apollo 8's orbit of the moon
Chicago 1968 Dimocrat convention riots
100,000 Americans killed by the Hong Kong Flu
Nixon wins the...…………………………………………….WAIT ! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ?!!!! 100,000 Americans killed by a flu ? WTF ?

I'm sure those of you who were alive remember how all of the schools were closed ?
How stores and restaurants were closed ?
How we were all social distancing ?
How we all had to wear PPE ?
How the economy was closed, and unemployment was off the charts and how the stock market tanked, and millions of Americans lost everything they had worked for because Dimocrats demanded we all stayed home, so Nixon wouldn't be elected ?

RIGHT ?

Mortality[edit]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that in total, the virus killed one million people worldwide.[11]

United States[edit]

The CDC estimated 100,000 people died in the U.S.[12] However, fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:[13]

1. some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
2. the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
3. improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
4. the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.

Hong Kong flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

What this argument ignores is that the current Virus has killed 50,000 in two months WITH social distancing and WITH closing businesses and WITH closing schools. Just think for a minute how many it would have killed WITHOUT all that work to keep us from being close to each other. Imagine it.

You're assuming that these measures were somehow effective in reducing the death toll.

But I don't see that as a fact at all. I saw the graph on TV when social distancing/quarantine were proposed. The measures weren't designed to reduce the number of dead at all- merely spread them out a bit, "flatten the curve" was the term used, in order to prevent over stressing of the healthcare system.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Tet Offensive
MLK assassinated
RFK assassinated
Apollo 8's orbit of the moon
Chicago 1968 Dimocrat convention riots
100,000 Americans killed by the Hong Kong Flu
Nixon wins the...…………………………………………….WAIT ! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ?!!!! 100,000 Americans killed by a flu ? WTF ?

I'm sure those of you who were alive remember how all of the schools were closed ?
How stores and restaurants were closed ?
How we were all social distancing ?
How we all had to wear PPE ?
How the economy was closed, and unemployment was off the charts and how the stock market tanked, and millions of Americans lost everything they had worked for because Dimocrats demanded we all stayed home, so Nixon wouldn't be elected ?

RIGHT ?

Mortality[edit]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that in total, the virus killed one million people worldwide.[11]

United States[edit]

The CDC estimated 100,000 people died in the U.S.[12] However, fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:[13]

1. some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
2. the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
3. improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
4. the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.

Hong Kong flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

What this argument ignores is that the current Virus has killed 50,000 in two months WITH social distancing and WITH closing businesses and WITH closing schools. Just think for a minute how many it would have killed WITHOUT all that work to keep us from being close to each other. Imagine it.

Yes, very likely all true. It still amazes me however that 100,000 did die, and I don't remember hearing a word about it. I was in the 6th and 7th grade, and no mentions of it that I can remember, and my mother who was afraid of her own shadow, and paranoid about everything, never warned any of us kids.

 

[barn sour]

I was there, but I don't remember.

Me neither, and I don't even remember my parents warning us kids about it.

I was busy working at the city pool and they sure didn't shut down. In fact, I don't remember any kind of a flu that year, or any year since for that matter. Yep, the boys were going off to die.....

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I was there, but I don't remember.

Me neither, and I don't even remember my parents warning us kids about it.

I was busy working at the city pool and they sure didn't shut down. In fact, I don't remember any kind of a flu that year, or any year since for that matter. Yep, the boys were going off to die.....

Yes, and apparently a lot of them brought this flu back home: "That same month, the virus entered California from returning Vietnam War troops but did not become widespread in the United States until December 1968"

 

[miketx]

Tet Offensive
MLK assassinated
RFK assassinated
Apollo 8's orbit of the moon
Chicago 1968 Dimocrat convention riots
100,000 Americans killed by the Hong Kong Flu
Nixon wins the...…………………………………………….WAIT ! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ?!!!! 100,000 Americans killed by a flu ? WTF ?

I'm sure those of you who were alive remember how all of the schools were closed ?
How stores and restaurants were closed ?
How we were all social distancing ?
How we all had to wear PPE ?
How the economy was closed, and unemployment was off the charts and how the stock market tanked, and millions of Americans lost everything they had worked for because Dimocrats demanded we all stayed home, so Nixon wouldn't be elected ?

RIGHT ?

Mortality[edit]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that in total, the virus killed one million people worldwide.[11]

United States[edit]

The CDC estimated 100,000 people died in the U.S.[12] However, fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:[13]

1. some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
2. the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
3. improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
4. the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.

Hong Kong flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

What this argument ignores is that the current Virus has killed 50,000 in two months WITH social distancing and WITH closing businesses and WITH closing schools. Just think for a minute how many it would have killed WITHOUT all that work to keep us from being close to each other. Imagine it.

Parrot squawks.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I remember the Blacks scheduling riots after MLK Jr. got whacked in Memphis. But the blacks were pretty smart about it, they didn't choose to have them in Italian controlled areas, as the wise guys wouldn't have put up with that shit.

They burned down their own neighborhoods in DC. Never could figure that.

 

[bluzman61]

Tet Offensive
MLK assassinated
RFK assassinated
Apollo 8's orbit of the moon
Chicago 1968 Dimocrat convention riots
100,000 Americans killed by the Hong Kong Flu
Nixon wins the...…………………………………………….WAIT ! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ?!!!! 100,000 Americans killed by a flu ? WTF ?

I'm sure those of you who were alive remember how all of the schools were closed ?
How stores and restaurants were closed ?
How we were all social distancing ?
How we all had to wear PPE ?
How the economy was closed, and unemployment was off the charts and how the stock market tanked, and millions of Americans lost everything they had worked for because Dimocrats demanded we all stayed home, so Nixon wouldn't be elected ?

RIGHT ?

Mortality[edit]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that in total, the virus killed one million people worldwide.[11]

United States[edit]

The CDC estimated 100,000 people died in the U.S.[12] However, fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:[13]

1. some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
2. the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
3. improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
4. the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.

Hong Kong flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

What this argument ignores is that the current Virus has killed 50,000 in two months WITH social distancing and WITH closing businesses and WITH closing schools. Just think for a minute how many it would have killed WITHOUT all that work to keep us from being close to each other. Imagine it.

Parrot squawks.

Yep. And unfortunately THIS parrot squawks QUITE a bit.......

 

[candycorn]

Tet Offensive
MLK assassinated
RFK assassinated
Apollo 8's orbit of the moon
Chicago 1968 Dimocrat convention riots
100,000 Americans killed by the Hong Kong Flu
Nixon wins the...…………………………………………….WAIT ! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ?!!!! 100,000 Americans killed by a flu ? WTF ?

I'm sure those of you who were alive remember how all of the schools were closed ?
How stores and restaurants were closed ?
How we were all social distancing ?
How we all had to wear PPE ?
How the economy was closed, and unemployment was off the charts and how the stock market tanked, and millions of Americans lost everything they had worked for because Dimocrats demanded we all stayed home, so Nixon wouldn't be elected ?

RIGHT ?

Mortality[edit]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that in total, the virus killed one million people worldwide.[11]

United States[edit]

The CDC estimated 100,000 people died in the U.S.[12] However, fewer people died during this pandemic than in previous pandemics for various reasons:[13]

1. some immunity against the N2 flu virus may have been retained in populations struck by the Asian Flu strains which had been circulating since 1957;
2. the pandemic did not gain momentum until near the winter school holidays, thus limiting the infection spreading;
3. improved medical care gave vital support to the very ill;
4. the availability of antibiotics that were more effective against secondary bacterial infections.

Hong Kong flu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Imagine how many we may have saved in 1968 if we had implemented some social distancing, used PPE, etc...

Oh wait, that doesn't fit in line with your irresponsible downplaying of a virus that has killed nearly 55,000 Americans in 2 months. Sorry; carry on.

I really don't know what it is about the blob that forces you guys to make such absurd arguments to downplay 50K lives being lost in 2 months.