Virus similarity

 

 

The most frightening part of reading about the Spanish Flu of 1918, is not the virus pandemic itself, but the similarity of mistakes made in trying to treat it between 1918 and 2020 on. The book Pale Rider, chronicles the history of the flu and other pandemics around the world and through time. The first recorded one was by Hippocrates. 

I turn a page and find information that could be broadcast on CNN, FR24, Al Jazeera, BBC or any major news station any where in the world now. 

A Spanish Bishop, thinking science was invalid turned to God and held repeated masses. He was no different than the ministers who bring their congregations together because "Jesus will protect me." 

Jesus didn't in Spain 1918 or the U.S. now and deaths soared.

Than there is the naming of the flu. Seems each country named it -- AFTER another country. It really didn't matter whether it was called the Belgian, Japanese, French, etc. in 1918. It still doesn't matter if we call it the China Virus or Covid-19. It is as deadly.

The book goes into depth on most aspects. 

The virus knows no borders. It goes where it wants. It does what it wants. 

People who pish-posh the danger of crowds last year are no different from those that did the same in the last century. The results are the same with the common denominator being crowds.

Science deniers exist(ed) in both centuries. People refused to wear masks.

It seems that the saying "the more things change, the more they stay the same."