#1918

Carla-Jean

CarlaJeanStokes

British official photographers David McLellan, John Warwick Brooke, and Thomas Keith Aitken all took photographs #OTD in 1918. Here are a few for your viewing pleasure Photograph is: Fatigue

Hyokon Zhiang

slowblogger

A few photos during Spanish flu in 1918. People had good judgment. #Masks4AllOfficials checking cleaners wearing masks.1/9 A few photos during Spanish flu in 1918. People had good judgment. #Masks4AllPolice

Frances Cook

FrancesCook

My stepdad is over 70, has a heart condition, and lives a really active full life.If one more person argues for him to be sacrificed at the altar of the

Edmund Fordham

EdmundFordham

Quinine worked against Spanish Flu in 1918. Found with help of pro Librarian (with many thanks: you know who you are). Burrows & Burrows (1918) Medical Record v94 n25 21

Charles Seife

cgseife

I've just plotted the number deaths in NYC due to the COVID-19 epidemic versus those due to the 1918 influenza epidemic. The results are... striking. A bit of background first,

BayouCityHistory

BayouCtyHistory

From the Oct. 14, 1918, @HoustonChron: Houston Mayor A.E. Amerman was confined at home for two weeks because of influenza. In other news, a woman is arrested for providing booze

Rabih Alameddine

rabihalameddine

Félix Vallotton, bronze-violet, 1911 Felix Vallotton, Coucher de soleil, 1918 Félix Vallotton, Soleil couchant dans la Brume, 1911 Félix Vallotton, Sunset, 1913 Félix Vallotton, Coucher de soleil, 1918 Félix Vallotton,

Andrew Bostom

andrewbostom

Coercive Covid-19(84) Mask-erade-American Lessons Unlearned From HONEST EPIDEMIOLOGISTS during the 1918 Flu Pandemic Era: Compulsory Mask wearing “did not show any influence on spread of influenza in those cities where

Joe Murgia

UfoJoe11

1 Covid has us living in unprecedented times. Lockdowns? Police state! Well, look @ 1918...Read it all"In October, the virus burned through the nation. Dozens of cities across the U.S.

Dr. Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen

alixabeth

OMG this @BerkeleyJr story is https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/02/like-trump-with-coronavirus-president-woodrow-wilson-contracted-the-1918-flu.html "Former President Woodrow Wilson became ill with the 1918 flu when he was in Paris in April

Chicago Tribune

chicagotribune

Thread: Almost 102 years ago, another worldwide pandemic hit Chicago.We searched through almost 1,000 pages of the Chicago Tribune’s archives to compare it with today’s coronavirus crisis.The similarities are shocking.https://www.chicagotribune.com/c

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MattLaemon

The Spanish Flu of 1918 : A thread The Influenza pandemic of 1918 was a serious pandemic of influenza. It lasted for three years, from January 1918 to December 1920. About 500 million people were infected across

Tarek

TarekCattan

A thread of photos from the 1918 Flu Pandemic to prove that history repeats itself forever:First, a photo of nurses frantically making masks to compensate for the lack of supplies

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Justsaytruthnow

H2N2 virus was first noted in the U.S. in 1968. The estimated number of deaths was 1M worldwide and about 100,000 in the U.S. Most excess deaths were 65yrs &

Masks Never Worked

maskson247

Parents that mask your kids: I don’t know how you do it. I shouldn’t judge anyone but those are your children’s faces. They are scared behind a mask. It’s not

Boston City Archives

ArchivesBoston

#onthisday, in 1918, two sailors housed at Boston’s Commonwealth Pier reported to the sickbay with the flu. These two men were the first Americans stricken with the Spanish Influenza. @universalhub