since this thread is suppose to be about the covid-19 endgame, perhaps a historical perspective “reality check” is needed to understand this mess isn’t going to end anytime soon
[quote] AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Influenza 1918
Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. Before it was over, the flu would kill more than 600,000 Americans – more than all the combat deaths of this century combined.
[quote] An Unfinished Lesson: What The 1918 Flu Tells Us About Human Nature
… Just over a century ago, a new infectious disease overtook the globe. Its history has long been buried, subsumed beneath the story of World War I. Historian Nancy Bristow believes it’s no mistake that Americans have focused on their victory in the war rather than on the devastation of the 1918 flu pandemic.
“To remember the flu would be to admit to the lack of control that people had had over their own health. It would be to admit that the United States was not necessarily all powerful, but was like everywhere else in the world: subject as victims to something beyond their control,” she says.
