Update from The House of Plague, Day 99

[elisi]

Let's go back in time... to 1918 specficially.

Yeah. St. Louis here. The good mayor may want to read about the difference responses to the 1918 flu pandemic between St. Louis and Philadelphia:https://t.co/YedCTMUwil

— Richard Watkins (@RichardStLMO) April 21, 2020

No, please keep wearing your mask.

During the 1918 Pandemic, people became weary of lockdowns and wearing masks, and the second and third wave of that Novel Influenza Virus, proved to be the most deadly. pic.twitter.com/fkC9UjqsCM

— Luna Lovegood
(FANGIRL) (@LunaLuvgood2020) May 23, 2020

And then I fell into a rabbit hole of looking up the Spanish Flu. This article (from 2018) was especially interesting: Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination

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For art, you get one of the posters from Japan’s 100-Year Old Pandemic Manual.

Comments

[masakochan]

Oof. Yeah- I'm still anxious as fuck because my middle-younger sister wants to take the rest of our main family to our grandparents' beach house, in Florida, for a few days (in July). And our mom is currently on her 3rd week of recovery from breast cancer surgery. x_X

eta: I should probably mention I'm staying behind in Texas to look after the family pets.

[elisi]

Oof. Yeah- I'm still anxious as fuck because my middle-younger sister wants to take the rest of our main family to our grandparents' beach house, in Florida, for a few days (in July). And our mom is currently on her 3rd week of recovery from breast cancer surgery. x_X
:( What's Florida like? I forget which states are soaring and which are containing...

[masakochan]

Florida's one of the soaring ones. Its also the one state known for it's huge elderly & retiree population.

[elisi]

Florida's one of the soaring ones.
I had a feeling it was, but my head is that full of covid information that I don't quite trust it.

Its also the one state known for it's huge elderly & retiree population.
Uh-huh. Yeah, that I knew. :(

[masakochan]

Then there was the most recent yelling match at a town hall(or whatever) in Palm Beach about masks. Fortunately a guy added in clips from a 'Parks & Rec' to make it tolerable.

[elisi]

Ahhhh! I'd seen the yelling match, but not the Parks & Recs additions. Delightful! :D

[orangerful]

I wonder what the Japanese poster says on it...

[elisi]

It might tell you if you follow the link? I presume something about wearing a mask and not being a plague rat.