Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 11:42 am
This afternoon in: More not good:
Kansas Crimson
All Things Kansas.
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Where's the petri dish thread?
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Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 11:57 am
If this cuts into the game on CBS I will have yet one more reason to hate him.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:19 pm
What are the other ones?
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:34 pm
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 2:00 pm
first US death...one of the two infected in Washington
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 2:04 pm
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 2:04 pm
it’s a dem hoax
smfh
smfh
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 3:49 pm
And this is why we can't have nice things.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:21 pm
...What proved even more deadly was the government policy toward the truth. When the United States entered the war, Woodrow Wilson demanded that “the spirit of ruthless brutality...enter into the very fibre of national life.” So he created the Committee on Public Information, which was inspired by an adviser who wrote, “Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms....The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.”
At Wilson’s urging, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it punishable with 20 years in prison to “utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United State...or to urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production in this country of any thing or things...necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war.” Government posters and advertisements urged people to report to the Justice Department anyone “who spreads pessimistic stories...cries for peace, or belittles our effort to win the war.”
Against this background, while influenza bled into American life, public health officials, determined to keep morale up, began to lie.
Early in September, a Navy ship from Boston carried influenza to Philadelphia, where the disease erupted in the Navy Yard. The city’s public health director, Wilmer Krusen, declared that he would “confine this disease to its present limits, and in this we are sure to be successful. No fatalities have been recorded. No concern whatever is felt.”
The next day two sailors died of influenza. Krusen stated they died of “old-fashioned influenza or grip,” not Spanish flu. Another health official declared, “From now on the disease will decrease.”
The next day 14 sailors died—and the first civilian. Each day the disease accelerated. Each day newspapers assured readers that influenza posed no danger. Krusen assured the city he would “nip the epidemic in the bud.”
By September 26, influenza had spread across the country, and so many military training camps were beginning to look like Devens that the Army canceled its nationwide draft call.
Philadelphia had scheduled a big Liberty Loan parade for September 28. Doctors urged Krusen to cancel it, fearful that hundreds of thousands jamming the route, crushing against each other for a better view, would spread disease. They convinced reporters to write stories about the danger. But editors refused to run them, and refused to print letters from doctors. The largest parade in Philadelphia’s history proceeded on schedule.
The incubation period of influenza is two to three days. Two days after the parade, Krusen conceded that the epidemic “now present in the civilian population was...assuming the type found in” Army camps. Still, he cautioned not to be “panic stricken over exaggerated reports.”
He needn’t have worried about exaggeration; the newspapers were on his side. “Scientific Nursing Halting Epidemic,” an Inquirer headline blared. In truth, nurses had no impact because none were available: Out of 3,100 urgent requests for nurses submitted to one dispatcher, only 193 were provided. Krusen finally and belatedly ordered all schools closed and banned all public gatherings—yet a newspaper nonsensically said the order was not “a public health measure” and “there is no cause for panic or alarm.”
There was plenty of cause. At its worst, the epidemic in Philadelphia would kill 759 people...in one day. Priests drove horse-drawn carts down city streets, calling upon residents to bring out their dead; many were buried in mass graves. More than 12,000 Philadelphians died—nearly all of them in six weeks.
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Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:44 pm
I lost an uncle in that flu.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:54 pm
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:05 pm
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:15 pm
You seem too normal to be from Nebraska.defixione wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:05 pm1919, Henderson, Nebraska, he was 2 yo.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:30 pm
Great aunt.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:40 pm
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:16 pm
What about "controlled" High blood pressure?
Asking for a friend...
Asking for a friend...
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:29 pm
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:55 pm
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:27 pm
No, actually.TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:55 pmi was just parroting the leader of the free world
And that just feeds his fire.
Re: Where's the petri dish thread?
Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:41 pm
TraditionKU wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:03 am https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... x-n1145721
remind me, who was going to be politicizing the outbreak?