Spanish Flu

The havoc wrought by an immune system gone rogue. Posted May 30, 2020 Terracotta funerary plaque, ca. 520-510 BC. Athenian. As deaths from COVID-19 continue to climb worldwide, many mourn loved ones to whom they were not able to say goodbye and because of social distancing, for whom they may…

Coronavirus deaths from March to May caused New York City's life expectancy to decline by 5 years, according to a recent analysis.By comparison, the 1918 flu pandemic resulted in a 12-year decline in life expectancy in the US.Life expectancies can rebound quickly after an epidemic, depending on the length of the…

Written by Sunny Verma | New Delhi | Updated: May 28, 2020 11:50:02 am Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian said said consumption of discretionary items like cars and houses will get impacted due to the uncertainty resulting from effects of Covid-19 pandemic. (File)Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian said it is…

On a recent Monday in a New Jersey cemetery, social worker Jane Blumenstein held a laptop with the screen facing a gravesite. A funeral was being held over Zoom, for a woman who died of COVID-19. It was a brilliantly sunny day, so a funeral worker held an umbrella over…

A historian who has written an entire book about the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic in the United States tells the Washington Post that President Donald Trump’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has left him stunned. Historian John M. Barry, the author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest…

A century ago, college sports in the United States was hit hard by the Spanish flu pandemic. Games were canceled and some schools were forced to call off their seasons. And this vintage image below is striking: Fans watching a college football game in the midst of a pandemic, wearing…

As you might guess from the name, The Chelsea Flower Show is essentially a giant flower show with dramatic gardens and plant exhibits held every year in Chelsea vaguely around now. It’s existed in one form or another since 1862, when it was known as the Royal Horticultural Society Great…

Anna WeyantCalida RawlesFelipe PantoneJess JohnsonJose ParlaKelly BeemanKoichi SatoMolly Bounds I once read that Ernest Hemingway, in the midst of a family quarantine when his young son, Bumby, was ill in the mid-1920s, found his isolation in the South of France, “A splendid place to write.” That Hemingway was sequestered there…

Yves here. The fight over rent, and more generally, who bears the cost of catastrophic economic damage, shows how little has changed from a century ago to now. But it is also important not to lose sight of the differences. One aspect of the Spanish flu versus our coronavirus is…

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