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2020-03-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Covid-19 & The Sun: A Lesson From The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-16 03:37|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 I believe it was TB or consumption back many years ago where treatment in sanitariums was to keep the ill outside. Pneumonia killed most. Those were the days several years after 1918 I believe. These places still are remembered many years after closure. Management techniques were quite varied and little or no monitoring. Reminds me; Back in the day this caused people to commit suicide upon seeing or hearing this tune.
Posted by Dale 2020-03-16 06:24||   2020-03-16 06:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Both — consumption is the old name for tuberculosis.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-16 08:15||   2020-03-16 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 TB or not TB: that is consumption...
Posted by Lex 2020-03-16 08:31||   2020-03-16 08:31|| Front Page Top

#4 ^groan
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-03-16 09:11||   2020-03-16 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Where is Pappy when you need him?
Posted by gorb 2020-03-16 09:42||   2020-03-16 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 To your room, Lex
Posted by Frank G 2020-03-16 10:33||   2020-03-16 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 So all this hand-wringing about the homeless being the most vulnerable is hogwash; they will recover on their own, as long as a wind blows under the bridge in Brooklyn.
Posted by USN, Ret.  2020-03-16 10:56||   2020-03-16 10:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Walked in the door and listened to that WOP, POS Cuomo for 2.5 minutes virtue signal NY and slam the Federal Gov't (Orange Man's efforts).

Might be time to quarantine the TeeVee.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-16 11:26||   2020-03-16 11:26|| Front Page Top

#9  So all this hand-wringing about the homeless being the most vulnerable is hogwash

Ouch. You’ve been sharpening that scalpel for a while, USN, Ret.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-16 12:03||   2020-03-16 12:03|| Front Page Top

#10 To your room, Lex

Hamlet? HAMLET!
Get thee to a nunnery!
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-16 12:04||   2020-03-16 12:04|| Front Page Top

#11 I recall fondly my 11th grade English Lit teacher, a Brit naked Sir Giles Sutton, tell us that in the Bards epic, the joke was that the term nunnery was common speak for brothel!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-03-16 12:26||   2020-03-16 12:26|| Front Page Top

#12 ...named...
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-03-16 12:27||   2020-03-16 12:27|| Front Page Top

#13 ahhh...I was awonderin' what kind of school you went to. Nevermind
Posted by Frank G 2020-03-16 12:38||   2020-03-16 12:38|| Front Page Top

#14 Might be time to quarantine the TeeVee.

That's the best idea I've heard.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-16 13:28||   2020-03-16 13:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Thanks TW. I have been watching the hand-wringers/bed-wetters here in Seattlestan do EVERYTHING for the homeless; latest is to issue executive order to ban evictions for renters that cannot pay their rent due to job loss. No mention of home-owners who can't pay their mortgage because of job loss, nor landlords that get the rentals foreclosed because of non payment.
Sorry, to damn many freeloaders here; if they all fell over dead my only worry would be about wind direction to ensure I had my car windows closed if I ever have to pass thru the 'Scat Francisco on the Sound.'
Posted by USN, Ret.  2020-03-16 14:13||   2020-03-16 14:13|| Front Page Top

#16 Buy more ammo.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-03-16 19:44||   2020-03-16 19:44|| Front Page Top

#17 What are th odds that the hospitals were less than sanitary back then and thats why the outside was preferable? The article is written by an expert so I'm probably wrong but that seems like it should be a factor.
Posted by ruprecht 2020-03-16 21:01||   2020-03-16 21:01|| Front Page Top

#18 "Eccentric? Not naked Giles Sutton,
Who, waving a nice leg of mutton,
Encouraged his pipers
In school tartan diapers
To 'bugger the bug!'" Cue tut-tuttin'.
Posted by Squinty Uneack9858 2020-03-16 21:13||   2020-03-16 21:13|| Front Page Top

#19  What are th odds that the hospitals were less than sanitary back then and thats why the outside was preferable?

They knew about sanitation, and hygiene was a fad by the 1920s — all those white subway tiled kitchens and such. The housing of the poor was still dank, dark, pestilent, and overcrowded, but hospital nurses were trained to create hygienic surroundings for well-scrubbed patients.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-16 21:23||   2020-03-16 21:23|| Front Page Top

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