Spanish Flu

The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare many fault lines in American society, from the savage inequalities of our health care system to the collapse of federal governance into a quagmire of blame-shifting and conspiracy-mongering during much of the crisis. For longtime financial journalist Michael Lewis, though, the effort to comprehend…

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img source: unsplash.com Since the beginning of the healthcare industry, nurses and doctors have donned uniforms that provided them an extra layer of protection while setting them apart from other workers. But medical uniforms have never stayed as-is for a long time.  Whenever there was a significant event, healthcare work…

29 Mar 2021 What have we learned and what have we forgotten from one hundred years ago – and will we make the same mistakes again? https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thefourcast/210326_Spanish_Flu_Mix_1515.mp3 Millions dead, multiple waves, ships quarantined; a world in crisis. One hundred years ago, humankind was hit by a deadly pandemic during the…

From the cocktails to the speakeasies to The Great Gatsby, there are few periods in history as celebrated in modern culture as the Roaring Twenties. As we look forward to the end of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s worth exploring how the Roaring Twenties followed the last global pandemic: the 1918…

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Premium Amazon/Business Insider This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. For its rising stars of Wall Street list, Business Insider selected 25 young professionals under the age of 35 in investing, trading, and dealmaking that stood out as the leaders for…

"Antisemites have blamed Jews for the medieval Black Plague to the WWI Spanish Flu," and now they blame Jews for COVID-19, too. In this image shared on Telegram on March 15, the coronavirus is presented as a trojan horse for “globalist” Jews. (photo credit: ADL/COURTESY) The human rights organization Simon…

The awful new sickness arrives suddenly with rumours and half-truths as to its origin.It’s highly contagious and deadly. Medical systems are quickly stretched. There’s no vaccine and no consensus about how to contain it – and who should do the containing.Some people wear masks, some refuse. Travellers are quarantined, the…

A transcript of Episode 22 of The Politics of Everything, “How Pandemics End”Laura Marsh: This week I did something I never imagined doing: I logged on to The New York Times, entered my age, my job, the county I live in, and some information about my health, and the website…