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.