#1918

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Hey I know we're all supposed to be like "hmmm hmmm maybe COVID isn't as lethal as we thought"but for recent weeks, deaths in western Europe were kind of super

Charles Booth

frothelhorse

Today is #anzacday . It is an important day in the calendar for Arnos Vale cemetery, in Bristol (@ArnosValeCem) and I usually do a tour there on Anzac Day every

StatisticusCollegium - No Deal Is The Only Deal

verumandverus

THREAD With The Corbyn Experiment ending on Saturday it’s worth looking at what he is leaving behind & how/where it happened In 12 charts I have plotted Labour’s GE performance

Mike Bechthold

mike_bechthold

#OTD in 1918, the famous "Two against Twenty" fight. In one of the most remarkable aerial mêlées of the Great War, two Bristol Fighters took on 20 German scouts and

Tyler Black, MD

tylerblack32

A typical seasonal flu kills about 300-600,000 people per year in the world. COVID-19 was at ~300k worldwide in May 15th, and as of today is at ~600k worldwide. In

John Roberts

john_actuary

A surprising fact from the @ONS last week. The number of people aged 99 rose by over 60% last year, with increases for the surrounding ages all in single figures.

Sisu Within 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇳🇿

sisu_sanity

You need to read this.Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Microbial ThreatsThe Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? Workshop Summary. 2005. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22156/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK22156.pdfParticularly this section startin

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston @/#COVIDisAirborne

jmcrookston

1 I just want to highlight how citations can be fudged. For those who don't know.This article ... 2 ... says that masks were proven not to work in 1918.

Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈

Amy_Siskind

2,000 American died today alone.400,000 reported cases in the US.The US mortality rate is now 3.2%. At 1,000 deaths it was at 1.5% and has been steadily rising. The mortality

🗝️ Trad Cath Sermons

TradCathSermons

THE PROBLEM WITH NEW (NOVEL) VIRUSES [thread]"... is this absolutely phenomenal disruption of the immune system that is the key to why people die of this virus. And I would

Simon Harley

simonharley

Time for a #history thread of British battleships firing. Here’s a Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought firing not long before the First World War. 1/ An unidentified 12-inch gunned battleship firing away

Bibliothèque BnF

laBnF

Blagues, chansons, parodies : la mise à distance des catastrophes par le rire est une stratégie de résistance humaine ancienne. Le blog L'Histoire à la BnF revient sur le rôle

Dr John B Winterburn

GPSJohn

1/14 Hello, Let me please intro myself: John Winterburn, Landscape and Modern Conflict Archaeologist My paper will take you to southern Jordan, where I have been researching landscapes for 15

Samantha *Please Stay Home* Damstetter

sam_dam01

I always wondered what is was like to be an adult during a national tragedy. Not in morbid way, but how I would feel and how my fellow Americans would

Emmett O'Connell

emmettoconnell

A lot of our focus on historical lookbacks for our pandemic thinking has been on 1918 because most of our policy thinking has been about preventative measures, bans on public

Spatel

Rjrasva

Sour grapes considering western reports of imminent disaster? Emergency was a gov't suggestion, no legal penalties applied for non-compliance. So there was no lock down in Japan as understood elsewherehttps://abc.net.au/news/2020-05-23/