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TIL: Woodstock and the Moon Landing happened in the middle of a pandemic
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2020-08-03 at 11:24 PM UTC
It was first noted in the United States in September 1968. The estimated number of deaths was 1 million worldwide and about 100,000 in the United States. Most excess deaths were in people 65 years and older. The H3N2 virus continues to circulate worldwide as a seasonal influenza A virus.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.html
People weren't such pussies back then.“In 1968/69,” says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest, “the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in the U.S. than the combined total number of American fatalities during both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.”
https://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/
And this happened in the lifetimes of every American over 52 years of age.
I was 5 years old and have no memory of this at all. My mother vaguely remembers being careful and washing surfaces, and encouraging her mom and dad to be careful. Otherwise, it’s mostly forgotten today. Why is that?
Nothing was closed by force. Schools mostly stayed open. Businesses did too. You could go to the movies. You could go to bars and restaurants. John Fund has a friend who reports having attended a Grateful Dead concert. In fact, people have no memory or awareness that the famous Woodstock concert of August 1969 – planned in January during the worse period of death – actually occurred during a deadly American flu pandemic that only peaked globally six months later. There was no thought given to the virus which, like ours today, was dangerous mainly for a non-concert-going demographic. -
2020-08-03 at 11:24 PM UTCwhile people were fucking nig^gers...
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2020-08-03 at 11:38 PM UTCfucking boomers man
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2020-08-03 at 11:39 PM UTCMOON FEVER
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2020-08-04 at 12:46 AM UTC
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2020-08-04 at 12:48 AM UTCThe media asn't able to manipulate the masses quite as quickly and frequently as today.
Now we have 24 hour news in our pockets and on our watches and porn sites. -
2020-08-04 at 12:50 AM UTC
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2020-08-04 at 12:51 AM UTC
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2020-08-04 at 12:52 AM UTCOr are you adding cocaine to them to get violent?
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2020-08-04 at 12:53 AM UTC
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2020-08-04 at 12:54 AM UTC
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2020-08-04 at 12:56 AM UTCmore deomcrats is why