1970 and 2022 are as far apart as 1918 and 1970.
Say it ain’t so!!!
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Wendy
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Lies!
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. . . as far apart as 1918 and 1970.
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There as a pandemic in 1970? Who KNEW???
{the H2N3 flu was in 1968}
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“1970 and 2022 are as far apart as 1918 and 1970.”
everything cycles through time - including us.
Howie52
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I love those kinds of perspective resets.
We are closer in time to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the building of the Pyramids
We are closer in time to the Tyrannosaurus Rex than it was to the the Stegosaurus.
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<the H2N3 flu was in 1968>
I got the H2N3 flu in 1968. It was the sickest I have been in my entire life.
Wendy
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Why do we perceive the time before our birth to have been SO much longer ago?
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When I was growing up in the 1980’s there was a local “oldies” station playing rock and roll from the late 50’s early 60’s.
An equivalent today would be playing music from the late 90’s, early 2000’s. Going back down memory lane with some Britney Spears and Outkast!
Heavy Metal, Disco, Grunge, 80’s synth pop… it would all be too old for that oldies station.
<the H2N3 flu was in 1968>
I got the H2N3 flu in 1968. It was the sickest I have been in my entire life.
Wendy
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I got the H2N2 - Asian flu in 1957
I did not get H2N3 - Hong Kong flu in 1968
Jaak
Revisiting the 1957 and 1968 influenza pandemics:
By the time this influenza pandemic—known colloquially
at the time as “Asian flu”—had concluded the following
April, an estimated 20000 people in the UK and
80000 citizens in the USA were dead. Worldwide, the
pandemic, sparked by a new H2N2 influenza subtype,
would result in more than 1 million deaths.
The subsequent 1968 influenza pandemic—or
“Hong Kong flu” or “Mao flu” as some western tabloids
dubbed it—would have an even more dramatic impact,
killing more than 30000 individuals in the UK and
100000 people in the USA, with half the deaths among
individuals younger than 65 years—the reverse of COVID-19
deaths in the current pandemic. Yet, while at the height
of the outbreak in December, 1968, The New York Times
described the pandemic as “one of the worst in the nation’s
history”, there were few school closures and businesses, for
the most, continued to operate as normal.
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820…
Battlestar Galactica, common theme:
“All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again”