'4 days at home after a cold prevents others being ill' THANK YOU!!! I wish schools still took this approach, the most now is 24 hours after vomiting or dihhorrea
In a perfect world parents would be able to get off for four days to take care of their children at home but this is the real world. You go to work sick and you go to school sick.
@@shadowblastxtreme9032 An adult has to do what an adult has to do and if that involves going to work sick then so be it. Nobody wants to. But employers almost to make it that way. And if you want to eat, and pay your rent, you better get your butt to work regardless of the situation. I once had an employer about 15 years ago that said if you have to take any time off during the week for any reason, you had to make up that time you took off that very same exact week. So if you were bedridden with the flu on Thursday your butt better work a double on Friday. I'm not really sure what they did if you called in sick on Friday though I never figured that one out. jobs were few and far between so if you wanted to stay employed you did whatever they told you to without question. And I have worked at plenty of places where there is no paid time off for any reason, this was one of those places. I worked in some very hellacious slave environments. The one I am referencing was a debt collection agency in Illinois. Every morning they would haul us back before our day began and tell us how horrible we all were and that they were going to fire us all. And they did fire all of us within six months. They were true to their word on that at least. I wound up suing them and won but that's another story. Also, back 25 years ago I worked in a daycare and I started running a fever and was extremely tired as a fever will make you, and I asked to go home and they said I couldn't because they didn't have anyone else to watch the kids. I was really sick too. So I laid in front of the classroom door so the kids couldn't escape and run down the hall without moving my body first. I put everything up and out of the way that could possibly hurt the children. And I just laid there and kind of dozed off and halfway slept because that's all I could do and listen for any screams or fights that the children might get into, and then and only then did I get up and intervene. This was a group of one and a half to two and a half year olds. This was at a daycare in Dallas, Texas. Both the debt collection job and the daycare job were low paying jobs. The less the employer pays you the worse they treat you. The more money you make the better the employer treats you. Where I work now the above situations would NEVER happen because I'm paid well and I'm treated well now.
My cousin had breast cancer and was sent home TWO DAYS later, that is all her insurance would pay for. She had a dangerous bleeding and was rushed back.
Society thinks that it’s too hip and modern, to listen and learn from these social and health issue educational films. Sound advice on behavior, hygiene social skills and self awareness, never goes out of style. It’s funny how life was more real and tougher and yet most people back then weren’t as angry and inconsiderate as they are today. They knew that life would never be perfect and that there will be a time when life isn’t going to be fair and they learned to adapt and to take responsibility for their own actions. I’m 51 years old and the life my grandparents endured during the early part of the 20th Century. They all grew up during the Great Depression, WWII, Worked scrimped and saved while raising their families and almost everyone that grew up during that era, were pretty well adjusted and relatively happy and thankful for what they had and not complain about what they didn’t have. I notice that others that lived through the same era as my grandparents, had the same demeanor in their social skills, the positive way they spoke, manners etc.. I enjoy these films because their meaning is timeless.
Sometime in the early 1960s.....when I was in the 4th or 5th grade......I remember there was a kid in my class named Randy, who was in one of these Coronet films. But I was raising hell in the classroom, and the teacher made me stand out in the hallway and miss the film.
Nowadays, if a kid missed 4 days of school, the school would blow a gasket and try to fail the kid! Back then, they actually cared about the children and it wasnt about the status and benefits! They want the kid back within 24 hours these days and want to know all their medical business! Back then, Mothers were able to stay home with their kids and care for them! These days, ppl arent paid a liveable wage so both parents have to work and we see where that has gotten us in society....
Very true, kids alone, both parents gone. Parents who don't know the importance of being a parent and so choose not to be. Mother's and fathers that never believe their children when they say they are sick unless the inevitable proof.
Look at the size of the paper handkerchief! I wish they made them that big today! Even tho this film is 74 years old, there is a lot of good advice to be followed today!
I remember snowsuits (and Snow Days off of school) from living in New York through second grade. Once we moved to the West coast, it was weird getting used to wearing short sleeves in December. I'm not sure how much effort is put into school health campaigns nowadays, but I remember seeing similar films with updated characters in the 70's. I rarely caught colds. I wish I still had that kind of immunity.
I will never regret choosing to be a sahm over a professional career. Caught a lot crap for it, but the sense of security the kids feel and the opportunities it provided to teach and guide them is worth more than any paycheck or status quo.
To the "4 days at home after a average cold" comments, I think we tend to forget that the conditions were different. With less heating and maybe not as good access to medication right after the war with probably more physical labour, it might have been easier to develop further health problems from this, like a pneumonia Just a guess, correct me if I'm wrong :)
No, you're right. I was born right around that time, so I know. My cousin had scarlet fever and had to go to a contagious hospital. You got quarantined with that disease back then. Now, it's just another strep infection that gets treated with antibiotics.
@@miriambucholtz9315 Strep throat becomes Scarlet Fever becomes Rheumatic Fever. Each is progressively more serious. Thank goodness for antibiotics. Even with modern medicine, only the care giver should be in close contact with the patient. I think it's 24 hours with antibiotics before they are no longer contagious. It's also one of those infections that once you've had it, you are susceptible to it repeatedly. No fun at all.
all colds are a type of covid... just the number changes. Speaking in the lazy way and not specifying covid19 makes you sound retarded to any one who knows a bit of microbiology ..
+Karen “live 4 Jesus” smith My Grandmother still calls them that every so often. But she normally calls them tissue. She was born only a few years before the Great Depression began. She grew up during it and was 15 when the 2nd world war began. My Grandfather was in the war, they met around the end I believe. My late Uncle was born and then in 1953 my late Mother was born. She told me that she had a hankie or tissue all the time. For me I always had tissue forced on me all the time. It wasn't until just a few years ago I started taking with me a small cloth napkin to use as a handkerchief. I like using that a lot better then tissue. I'm so old fashioned.
@@Eszra I have the last cloth handkerchief my father had in his pocket when he went into the hospital, before he passed away. I keep it and paper tissues, and only use his handkerchief if necessary, because I don't want to launder it so much it wears about before I do.
A SNOWSUIT in 40 degree weather that's dry and no snow????? We always wore just a heavy sweater or a jacket---that kind of weather is spring in northern lower Michigan!----and snowsuits were only for playing outside or shoveling snow at home. And the makers of this film obviously didn't know that cold weather (nor wet weather, nor any weather, actually) does NOT cause colds, sneezes, sniffles, flu, or any other such illness. Even my parents knew that when my siblings and I were children in the 1950s and 60s, and they weren't scientists or doctors, just good, common sense people!
The first and biggest counter I have to you're statement is that they did not say that there was causation in cold weather and catching a cold. The direct quote was "it's easy to catch a cold when you're body is chilly", which is true. When you're body is cold, you're typical functions are not working optimally, which includes the immune system. There is correlation in cold weather and catching a cold, and they stated exactly that. However, I do understand your confusion, just as I understand that the children watching this PSA grew up to intepret it as the very myth we know is wrong today. You're first point on snow, however, is entirely subjective. I applaud you for being able to handle such cold weather. I live in Australia, and in the area I live in particulaly we don't get snow, and rarely do we get frost of a morning in winters. At 40F (4C, for me), I personally would need a snow suit - a simple jacket and pants doesn't even do it in weather of 15C (50F for you). Of a winter here, I wear several layers of shirts, 2 pairs of socks, stockings beneath a heavy-frabric pair of pants, and that's just inside. Outside I'll include a wool trench coat, gloves, a scarf and hat of some kind. If it's windy I will still shiver. All this comes in based on what one is used to and their body type. I've never seen snow, let alone been up early enough for the rare frost, and I am very skinny with little body fat, which helps keep people warm. I don't know where in America this video is supposed to be set but the general message remains clear and even relevant for me living on the coastline of a desert country: if you find it cold out, wear a coat that keeps you warm. All this is to say, these videos should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm watching them for the fun of seeing what people might have learned in yester-years and if such things can be used again. Of course, there will be facts that change with years, but we should not be angry at them. Of course, such videos are not shown in educational settings, and it's important to look at them with an open mind and listening clearly, not for what you think you'll hear. I recently watched another video like this on mental health from the 50s and was so pleasently surprised at how much knowledge they did have on basic issues still faced by teens today that do very much sprial into anxiety and depression because we lack the support systems and educational resources to aid them. I wonder if that video will do my generation well, and perhaps ease the burden on the mental health facilities gloably.
I guess it depends on the time and where you are. In New England, if it's 40 in October then it feels cold and clammy so someone might need warmer clothes. If it's 40 in March it feels warmer,more like spring. You still need a jacket and boots though. We get snow til April.
@@tia8527 40F and 50F would be a heat wave in New Hampshire in the winter. Some winters it's negative numbers for weeks. I wouldn't last long in your really hot temperatures though. Anything above 90 and it's too hot to do much.
You put on warm layers to shovel snow? Tell you never lived in Michigan without telling me you never lived in Michigan. You will sweat through that suit before you're done with a fraction of the snow. It's when you're out and about that you need the layers so you can stand in the wind...
I wanna see Joan become a germaphobe who develops an extreme case of OCD. By age 12, Joan's compulsive handwashing has allowed bacteria to enter through cracks in her raw, chapped skin, resulting in serious, chronic infections. By age 16, Joan is agrophobic.
Queer and gay had a different meaning until political correctness changed that. Gone are the days when we had proper English that gave us intelligence and education.
That would be appropriate for a long walk to school. Kid's these days wear a flimsy jacket for that kind of weather because they are magically transported to school via automobile. People are often under dressed these days for cold weather.
It is amazing how much wisdom and simple living existed in the 1940s. I just love all of these series. Kids see nothing like this anymore. Just wonderful. Throw in a little more diversity in roles and race and re-pop these for kids now.
Today, the kids wear hoodies out in 20 degree weather, and im sure they re freezing. There s no "Mother" at home making sure they eat their little foodies and put on their ski suits. lol
Wearing a snow suit at 40 degrees Fahrenheit is bizarre, granted the girls would want to cover their bare legs with pants, but just a coat should be fine, even walking to school.
@@lsusanna3 Interesting assumption. I counter you with poor diet causing pandemics through history. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IQgxcxFVJkI.html
Boil plates for a cold? Seems extreme when a good washing by hand is more than sufficient. Agree with the hand washing. As a RN I wash my hands endlessly and that is not at work.
I was an RN, too, and still keep up with the handwashing. I had to cringe, however, when Joan washed her hands in the classroom and promptly turned off the water faucet with her freshly-cleaned hand instead of a paper towel.
Miriam Bucholtz Actually, I was rather cross with Joan’s hand washing routine once she arrived at school. She clearly did not take the necessary time to cleanse her hands properly with a good, rich, lather, and rinse them thoroughly under hot water. She should have been immediately scolded and ordered back to the washroom to repeat her hand washing as she has been taught...for the health of her classmates and before she handles food.
@@slouberiee Back around 1950, my father was working at a place that used penicillin and he had a small vial of it in the refrigerator. Every time my brother or I had a sore throat, he dosed us with it. (Mixed with honey to try to camouflage the taste.) We both became very sensitive to it and always list it as an allergy in our medical records.
They knew how to keep their kids and other people's kids safe from illness. I am sure you wouldn't want your kids to get what all the kids have, if those two got really sick with something other than the common cold. Also, the common cold may be common, but there can be serious complications.
@@cottoncandiez8872 If I posted the comment I knew what I was talking about. If the comment "Why didn't they just wrap the kids in plastic and keep them away from any human contact?" was responded to by "They knew how to keep their kids and other people's kids safe from illness. I am sure you wouldn't want your kids to get what all the kids have, if those two got really sick with something other than the common cold. Also, the common cold may be common, but there can be serious complications." it is what we call humor, r/woooosh, or because you apparently haven't learned it yet, *HUMOR*
We send our kids back to school to soon after a illness...but today we have both parents working and time off for parents are not what they do anymore 😟
Anybody gonna talk about the girl brushing her teeth over the toilet? Yeah sure, that caught on really well , we all do that 🤮 they even tell you nowadays that's why there's a lid - because of feces and urine backsplash in the air after the flush!!
That's what everyone used to carry in their pockets or handbags. Then, along came the invention of paper handkerchiefs to make life just a little bit easier. So, my Mama, with so many kids could use a separate one for each child to spit on it and wipe the unseen, except by her, dirt off our little faces, before sending us out the door.
Probably because these films were targeted towards children and clear concise directions, along with a backstory is how you reach them and get them to remember what you taught them.
I agree with this video. You should stay at home for 4 days if you have a cold. We are too business driven in the U. S. We don't care about people enough. If you don't stay at home long enough, you could spread the cold to someone else. Also, wash your hands frequently. And in light of what's going on now with the COVID 19 virus, we should take this video very seriously.
And who can afford to stay home today? Easy for U to say if FAther is at work being the "breadwinner" and mother can stay home and play the "nuturing nurse"
The Dutch Festival has been cancelled due to the new outbreak of the new Spectrum Variant. The CDC is now recommending a 6th booster does for children named Joan, and galoshes are now required when you cannot physically distance from puddles.
I am soooo overwhelmed by the actors and the dialogue! You'll laugh, you'll cry! Do I smell Oscar in these compelling scenes ? But wait??? Jim feels "queer" ??? This will not bode well to the integrity of this brutally honest flic..
So the teacher shakes the hand of every student as they come into class. Great way to spread germs. Then she blew a feather on a student's apple. Perfect!
The Dutch are clean and “keep well”. I want to know the culture that has running water, but doesn’t “keep well”. Even those who don’t have ways to “keep well.”
Joan and Jim are cutie pies - love these films - oh how good life was in so many ways in those days - now we have literal satanists in positions of power running the globe.
What's worse, is they are also in our schools, now, teaching today's Joans and Jims how to be a transgender or how todays Georges have two Daddies, or how a violent religion is really very peaceful, and they should learn to prostrate themselves on the ground with their rear ends in the air like they do, and little Joans of today should learn how wonderfully freeing it is to wear a full body blanket when it is 102 degrees outside.
Joan’s little dress was so adorbs🥰 And it was just too cute how she gave him her spare Kleenex. All these kids were so clean and well mannered...speaks volumes about the parenting💗
@@gordontaylor5373 IT WAS BAD ENOUGH I SPENT 7 MONTHS IN BED IN A BODY CAST I HATED IT AFTER I GOT OUT OF THE BODYCAST THEN I GOT FITTED FOR ORTHOTICS THOSE ALLOWED ME OUT OF BED
