#flu pandemic

[juegosintiperojuegocontigo]

[yearningsaphic]

friendly reminder that this is the second time the US has failed to correctly address a pandemic

[vultureworth]

sketches to go along with a final project for a class about art history in relation to historical epidemiology. 

my project traces the history of quarantining, masks, and social distancing measures by looking at plague in 17th century Italy, the Manchurian Plague (1910-1911), and the Spanish Flu pandemic (1918-1920). 

on the left we have Dr. Wu Lien-teh in front of a railway wagon converted into a quarantine station during the Manchurian Plague. 

on the right is a masked woman during the 1918 Flu pandemic. She stands in front of a door that has a white ribbon tied to its front, signaling that a young child in the house has died due to flu. 

currently i’m still working on my piece to accompany my section on plague in 17th century Italy, which will depict a plague doctor standing outside one of the Venetian lazzaretti. 

[readwithem]

I've never dabbled in post-apocalyptic fiction, unless it's a video game (shoutout to The Last Of Us). But a booktuber mentioned this one and i thought i would check it out since it sounds pretty relatable to where we are today. I fell in love.

It's a flu pandemic tell based in Canada. There are a lot of characters, so you can imagine how each character story can stir the plot in different directions. Luckily, you won't get lost. Emily did a great job.

There are two focus characters in the story. Arthur, a famous actor who dies right before the pandemic and Kristen, an actress with the Traveling Symphony who roams around the country playing music and doing shakespeare plays years after the collapse.

Why Station Eleven? That's one of the things i loved in the book and wanted to have a physical copy of. It's a comic book made by Arthur's first wife based on her life. She made very few copies of them and left them to him. He gave a copy to Kirsten when she was a kid actor with him in a play and gifted the other to Tyler, his son with the second wife.

Funnily enough, Kirsten and Tyler's paths meet 20 years after the flu breakout. You won't get the eureka moment of putting the puzzle pieces together until the last few chapters.

Kirsten's vs Tyler's plot lines are two of countless ways you can survive the apocalypse. She got through it with art and he with religion. The thing they have in common is the need of community, either in peace or in violence. The latter was Tyler's way of dealing with his pain, by fusing the bible and the comic in his belief system, and using it to hurt people in his favor.

He chases down the symphony for their difference of opinion (radicalisation at its best) and meets Kirsten. They don't discuss their relationship with Station Eleven, but Kirsten is baffled when he quotes one of the lines in the comic right before he gets killed, and she feels sympathy towards him because she gets how impactful the comic story was to their survival.

You'll get the feels reading this book. You'll meet other more or less minor characters with profound thoughts and difficult lives and you'll feel like you know them.

One of my favorite parts was at the end where Emily is describing Arthur's death scene in his POV and it felt like the last scene of the Titanic movie in Rose's POV where she remembers everybody like they're alive. That was emotional to me.

Excellent book. Took a few moments in silence after closing it. Want to read more of this kind of fiction.

[nowthisnews]

This footage of a parade during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic offers eerie comparisons to the coronavirus today

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

Train conductors wearing masks during the 1918-19 flu pandemic.

National Archives via NY Times

[curiosityistheleastofmyproblems]

Tomb of Harry Thornton in Highgate Cemetery, London.

Thornton was a concert pianist who, along with his wife, entertained the troops during World War I.

He died during the 1918 Flu Pandemic which killed 50 - 100 million people around the world.

[govpubsfinds]

As we remember the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War this week, we should also keep in mind the 100th anniversary of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918.  The pandemic would end up taking the lives of an estimated 20-50 million people worldwide. 

This document is a bulletin issued by the Surgeon General to the American public in late October 1918 about the pandemic and what measures ordinary people could take to prevent becoming ill.   

Note that the bulletin claims that the cause of Influenza is a bacteria, not a virus. The human influenza virus would not be isolated until 1933.  

Blue, Rupert. United States Public Health Service. (1918). "Spanish influenza," "three-day fever," "flu." (Public Health Rpt. Supp. No. 34). Washington, D.C.]: U.S. G.P.O. In CIS US Executive Branch Documents, 1910-1932. Bethesda, Md.: LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions, 1996. Microfiche. (No. T27.6-55.34) Full text available via HathiTrust