If you've been stuck inside for nearly a month or more and you've seen the President on the tube spouting about opening up America again, sit the fahk down and listen up. First, he can open up America to his heart's delight. No one is compelled to obey. The states' Governors will decide if it's safe to go outside and play. Don't listen to his pied piper's song and walk into the sea. Stay Home. This is far from over.
A fact: Nothing like this has ever happened in 99.99% of the humans living today. The last time something like this occurred was in 1918. It actually lasted two full years. It went on killing long after everyone thought it was done with us. Matter of fact, the second wave of the Spanish Flu of 1918 killed more people than did the first wave.
A tale of two cities:
In late 1918, with this global flu outbreak, there were two cities in the United States. One was prepared and proactive, St. Louis; the other was foolish and naive, Philadelphia. Dr. Wilmer Krusen, director of the Department of Health in Philadelphia assured that the flu was limited to just the military base. A War Bonds parade, their fourth, was scheduled late September. The infectious disease people told him it would be dangerous and it could cause mass breakouts of flu. He didn't heed their warnings. The Fourth War Bonds Parade for funding the U.S. war efforts marched through Center City. Thousands of Philadelphians marched and watched along Broad Street. Within days, every hospital in Philadelphia was packed with flu cases. When all was said and done over 12,000 people died from flu. The most flu casualties in the United States.
When St. Louis heard of their first case of flu that infiltrated the public from the local military base, they basically shut down everything. Immediately. Health commissioner Dr. Max Starkloff closed schools, movie theaters, pool halls, as well as banning all public gatherings. Any place where groups of people could congregate were shutdown. The result was St. Louis' flu deaths were one-eighth of Philadelphia's. That's a huge difference.
The moral: Take this seriously and take preventive measures.
The United States (the Federal government and the states' governments) did not take quick decisive action responding to the Coronavirus. That's why we are playing catch-up and leading the race in having the most cases and deaths. This is not a race we ever wanted to be in and certainly not one we want to win.
Listen to Dr. Fauci. Stay home.
Thousands of idiots in Michigan rushed to the State Capital demanding to reopen the state and relax the stay-at-home order. They are opening themselves and others around them for a transmission of COVID-19. Because some people who have it may never show any signs or become ill, but the rest of us can. It's not just Michigan. Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina and Utah also have protests popping up in their states too. We are far from beating this thing. Everyone is suffering. Money is tight especially if you're not working and have minimal savings. But to resume our pre-COVID-19 lives you risk becoming ill or dying. And that is not a good long term plan.
The 1918 flu epidemic was perceived to be mild or gone by September. In reality, that was when the second wave hit and did the most killing. It raged on for several more months finally petering out in 1920. But by then, many who did not unnecessarily needed to get sick or die, did.
When this is all over, take a walk. Visit just about any large cemetery in your town or city. Then start counting how many people died between 1918 and 1920. You'll get the gist of what we're going through. It was said 1% of the Philadelphia population died from the 1918 pandemic. One may think, "That's not many!" If you were part of that 1%, you would think differently. It didn't need to be, if they were just told to just STAY HOME.
Three winters ago, I was riding SEPTA into Center City everyday. Around January the first sniffles, sneezes and gentle coughing started. In a matter of days, more than half the riders in the car (all the cars) were suffering from the same. I caught it sometime late January/early February. I beat it in about a week. However, either a new strain or the same strain came back stronger than ever and hit me a week later again. It was a severe head and chest cold that just wouldn't end. I went through the whole month of February and most of March combating this illness. Catching it. Beating it. Catching it. Beating it. It wasn't until April when the last of the coughing, sneezing and whatever was happening to us all had disappeared. We all felt better.
The cold and flu season easily lasts six months. A pandemic of this proportion knows no end. We don't know what we're up against. I have said this constantly. We can't assume that once we start to flatten that curve that it's safe to go outside. Because that will be the time when the second wave comes through. And a second wave will come. It always does. Trust me. Stay home.
It was reported last week that a woman in Wuhan China who had the virus and beat it, died. She was elderly. Was the virus the cause? Don't know. Maybe it was just her time. I did say she was elderly. I mean, el-der-ly. This brings me to a thought that may not be popular but the majority of the fatalities are the elderly. Who can say with any conviction that their time was about up? When you are in your eighties and nineties, you can go with no warning. Anyone above eighty-two or three is on borrowed time. On average, Americans die around their early to mid-eighties, whether they want to or not. It's a statistical fact. Hopefully, none of you are an octogenarian or nonagenarian or have health issues like a weakened immune system. If you fall in either category, stay home. Stay away from people. Don't talk to strangers. Don't take candy or rides from strangers. I know it sounds like overkill, but I just want to cover all the bases.
Stay home. Stay safe. Before you know it, we'll be back at work. Not me. I'm staying the fahk home. It's fahken scary out there. Until next time, TTFN.
A fact: Nothing like this has ever happened in 99.99% of the humans living today. The last time something like this occurred was in 1918. It actually lasted two full years. It went on killing long after everyone thought it was done with us. Matter of fact, the second wave of the Spanish Flu of 1918 killed more people than did the first wave.
A tale of two cities:
In late 1918, with this global flu outbreak, there were two cities in the United States. One was prepared and proactive, St. Louis; the other was foolish and naive, Philadelphia. Dr. Wilmer Krusen, director of the Department of Health in Philadelphia assured that the flu was limited to just the military base. A War Bonds parade, their fourth, was scheduled late September. The infectious disease people told him it would be dangerous and it could cause mass breakouts of flu. He didn't heed their warnings. The Fourth War Bonds Parade for funding the U.S. war efforts marched through Center City. Thousands of Philadelphians marched and watched along Broad Street. Within days, every hospital in Philadelphia was packed with flu cases. When all was said and done over 12,000 people died from flu. The most flu casualties in the United States.
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| War Bond Poster, 1918 |
When St. Louis heard of their first case of flu that infiltrated the public from the local military base, they basically shut down everything. Immediately. Health commissioner Dr. Max Starkloff closed schools, movie theaters, pool halls, as well as banning all public gatherings. Any place where groups of people could congregate were shutdown. The result was St. Louis' flu deaths were one-eighth of Philadelphia's. That's a huge difference.
The moral: Take this seriously and take preventive measures.
The United States (the Federal government and the states' governments) did not take quick decisive action responding to the Coronavirus. That's why we are playing catch-up and leading the race in having the most cases and deaths. This is not a race we ever wanted to be in and certainly not one we want to win.
Listen to Dr. Fauci. Stay home.
Thousands of idiots in Michigan rushed to the State Capital demanding to reopen the state and relax the stay-at-home order. They are opening themselves and others around them for a transmission of COVID-19. Because some people who have it may never show any signs or become ill, but the rest of us can. It's not just Michigan. Ohio, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina and Utah also have protests popping up in their states too. We are far from beating this thing. Everyone is suffering. Money is tight especially if you're not working and have minimal savings. But to resume our pre-COVID-19 lives you risk becoming ill or dying. And that is not a good long term plan.
The 1918 flu epidemic was perceived to be mild or gone by September. In reality, that was when the second wave hit and did the most killing. It raged on for several more months finally petering out in 1920. But by then, many who did not unnecessarily needed to get sick or die, did.
When this is all over, take a walk. Visit just about any large cemetery in your town or city. Then start counting how many people died between 1918 and 1920. You'll get the gist of what we're going through. It was said 1% of the Philadelphia population died from the 1918 pandemic. One may think, "That's not many!" If you were part of that 1%, you would think differently. It didn't need to be, if they were just told to just STAY HOME.
Three winters ago, I was riding SEPTA into Center City everyday. Around January the first sniffles, sneezes and gentle coughing started. In a matter of days, more than half the riders in the car (all the cars) were suffering from the same. I caught it sometime late January/early February. I beat it in about a week. However, either a new strain or the same strain came back stronger than ever and hit me a week later again. It was a severe head and chest cold that just wouldn't end. I went through the whole month of February and most of March combating this illness. Catching it. Beating it. Catching it. Beating it. It wasn't until April when the last of the coughing, sneezing and whatever was happening to us all had disappeared. We all felt better.
The cold and flu season easily lasts six months. A pandemic of this proportion knows no end. We don't know what we're up against. I have said this constantly. We can't assume that once we start to flatten that curve that it's safe to go outside. Because that will be the time when the second wave comes through. And a second wave will come. It always does. Trust me. Stay home.
It was reported last week that a woman in Wuhan China who had the virus and beat it, died. She was elderly. Was the virus the cause? Don't know. Maybe it was just her time. I did say she was elderly. I mean, el-der-ly. This brings me to a thought that may not be popular but the majority of the fatalities are the elderly. Who can say with any conviction that their time was about up? When you are in your eighties and nineties, you can go with no warning. Anyone above eighty-two or three is on borrowed time. On average, Americans die around their early to mid-eighties, whether they want to or not. It's a statistical fact. Hopefully, none of you are an octogenarian or nonagenarian or have health issues like a weakened immune system. If you fall in either category, stay home. Stay away from people. Don't talk to strangers. Don't take candy or rides from strangers. I know it sounds like overkill, but I just want to cover all the bases.
Stay home. Stay safe. Before you know it, we'll be back at work. Not me. I'm staying the fahk home. It's fahken scary out there. Until next time, TTFN.
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