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dalton99a

(81,637 posts) Tue May 5, 2020, 02:52 AM May 2020

Virus-afflicted 2020 looks like 1918 despite science's march (AP)

https://hosted.ap.org/article/6c45a08d3c2ea96e4edeb7e55a6a107e/virus-afflicted-2020-looks-1918-despite-sciences-march

May. 5, 2020 12:25 AM EDT
Virus-afflicted 2020 looks like 1918 despite science's march
By CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a century's progress in science, 2020 is looking a lot like 1918.

In the years between two lethal pandemics, one the misnamed Spanish flu, the other COVID-19, the world learned about viruses, cured various diseases, made effective vaccines, developed instant communications and created elaborate public-health networks.

Yet here we are again, face-masked to the max. And still unable to crush an insidious yet avoidable infectious disease before hundreds of thousands die from it.

As in 1918, people are again hearing hollow assurances at odds with the reality of hospitals and morgues filling up and bank accounts draining. The ancient common sense of quarantining is back. So is quackery: Rub raw onions on your chest, they said in 1918. How about disinfectant in your veins now? mused President Donald Trump, drawing gasps instead of laughs over what he weakly tried to pass off as a joke.

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Virus-afflicted 2020 looks like 1918 despite science's march (AP) (Original Post) dalton99a May 2020 OP

K&R! Really good article, looks like the U.S. is making many of the same mistakes Rhiannon12866 May 2020 #1

i want to break my teevee every time he says 1918. mopinko May 2020 #2

They tried they same things we're trying, masks didn't work, nothing worked, they still died Baclava May 2020 #3

Rhiannon12866

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1. K&R! Really good article, looks like the U.S. is making many of the same mistakes

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Tue May 5, 2020, 03:09 AM

May 2020

mopinko

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2. i want to break my teevee every time he says 1918.

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 06:52 AM

May 2020

there was one lesson to be learned from that, and he is making the.exact.same.mistake.

the man is so brain damaged i dont know how he is still breathing on his own.

Baclava

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3. They tried they same things we're trying, masks didn't work, nothing worked, they still died

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 09:54 AM

May 2020

It just burned through the population like wildfire and then disappeared, we should be so lucky

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