When my great-grandfather was a soldier in the US Army during the First World War his entire unit (besides him) was killed by the flu - he got it but didn’t die. I never met him but it apparently had quite an impact on him.
Interesting. My grandfather was in the Signal Corps. shippped out of Duluth, Mn. near wars' end. He missed his telegram in Canada where he was homestead wood cutting during the winter. Over half his group died overseas, and while we don't have the clear infor,, I think the war was just about over when they arrived, so it would have had to be the flu.
Interesting and no shit, makes sense. Imagine all your close friends dying and yet you survived. Seems really fucked up. Glad I don't have that expierence.
@@robiking011 did you really watch the video??? "some say it originated at some british field hospital at france , some say it originated from china" they explained how its named after spanish flu but it never originated from spain for the first minute of the video and 1:34 quote that at HERE now how dumb are you? pls answer that question since im really curious how you concluded it as misleading pls use captions, rewatch it and use full volume to not end up calling mr swastika, a good nice guy one day since history gets messed up cause of people like you who make random guesses and shit edit: also the comment is meming about italy with virus, not saying italy is the only one having pandemics and rest of Europe being fine
Watching this 2 years later it's funny seeing how little has changed in our approaches to public health when dealing with pandemics, Italy's measures in 1918 are almost identical to those taken by nearly all nations in covid over 100 years later
The bulk of the reduction in death rates beginning in the 1800’s really had very little to do with advancements in medical treatment and mostly was thanks to sanitation. Likewise, the practice of “quarantining” goes back to the middle ages.
Its how we learn. Also, its how we realize we actually didn't learn too much. So, now we take stock of both these scenarios, compare/contrast. AND, hope we get it 'RIGHT'...the THIRD time round. ;)
1:48 I believe that general holding up the NINTH TIME IS THE CHARM sign represents Luigi Cordona, winner over some extremely vigorous competition for the "Worst General of World War I" prize. He launched nine consecutive battles along the Isonzo river resulting in nine failures.
Humans: *we are fighting a world war how can things get any worse?* Spanish flu: *_that's a nice war torn Europe you got there, be a shame if someone made things worst_*
The flu: Oh boy , here i go and start my world wide trip The European super powers: Shu.. now, shu.. , we are busy playing soldiers Spain: Sure why not, i'm neutral. Also lets name it after me , you know , to commemorate the occasion !
What's really interesting is that the most and least affected places were next to each other. American Samoa closed its ports when the flu started, and had no cases or deaths. Western Samoa, now the country of Samoa, was the worst hit place in the world. They lost ~22% of their population to it.
All lies. Health care is deadly with autism and retardation through the roof compared with back then. I fear for the new born babies who are injected with so much crap its sickening and very sad.
@@madouc5754 yeah clean water. I have been sick twice in 25 years, thx to skipping food as sodas fast food and eating liberal to strict LCHf. Less war now but UZA is doing their best to kill off people, killed and murdered over 20-30 million children and women since 1945. I know exactly why people died earlier, do you know, besides clean water?
Another theory about why the 1918 influenza is so poorly remembered is that it was a personal loss for too many people. Unlike most other tragedies, even severe ones, the 1918 influenza killed someone in the extended family of almost every human on earth. The US, for example, had an average household of 4.5 at the time (2 parents, 2.5 kids). Each of your parents had 1.5 siblings who presumably married to give you 6 aunts or uncles. In turn, that gave you an average of 7.5 cousins. Add in your 4 grandparents and one generation out, you had 21 people within 1 step on your family tree. A 1 in 30 mortality rate on the flu meant 2 in 3 families lost a loved one. It's hard to talk about the death of a family member. So, lots of people avoided the pain by not talking about it. They didn't pass down family memories about it so we, collectively, forgot.
I don't know anyone that was even seriously ill with covid. My sister in law and some colleagues at work had mild cases, but I've been more ill myself in the past with gastro enteritis.
@@deusvult6920 Survival rate is not 99.7%. That BS came from a nonsensical calculation early in the pandemic, dividing the number of US deaths to date by the entire population of the country. That’s not how you calculate a rate. The correct figure is roughly 2% fatalities among the unvaccinated population; varying higher for Delta and lower for Omicron. 2% is way lower than what H1N1 did in 1918 - 1919.
@@t_0246 Liberal Prime minster of the UK 1908-1916, as a result of Gallipoli and the Munitions Crisis 1916 he was forced to resign and was replaced by the Welsh Wizard David Lloyd George another Liberal who was the Minister who solved the Crisis. HH Asquith or Herbert Henry Asquith 1852-1928
saint petersburg is fine, it's the official spelling in english moreover, the transliteration from russian gives us Sankt-Peterburg without the last 's' in some other languages, (including german i think) it's both sankt and petersburg with the last s
A video about the cardinal Richelieu would be great. He was the de-facto ruler of France during exciting times, and despite being a member of the catholic church, he was quite Machiavellian in his rule. Not to mention the influence he had on Louis XIV and the future of France as a leading and rising power.
Love your channel and this is a great video, as always. Two little corrections though: 1) Antibiotics don't work against pneumonia, they work against the bacteria causing it. Since flu is a virus, antibiotics would have been useless even if there were any. 2) The reason why the spanish flu was so deadly was not the pneumonia or the virus itself but rather the way that the human body reacted to it. It caused a massive immune reaction in the lungs, called a cytokine storm, which would cause damage to the lung tissue and could result in death within a day or two, not a classical pneumonia. That is why it had the highest lethality for people with the strongest immune systems, the young and the healthy. People with weaker immune systems would get a regular flu.
It should be noted, though, that I once suffered from an asthmatic bronchitis, and that the doctor I saw - who basically never prescribed antibiotics, and had never given them to his own children - prescribed them to me as a precaution.
It's nice to see things in perspective. people are getting overly paranoid over the coronavirus nowadays but we have survived other pandemics in the past. I just wish people would stop reacting like it's the Black death from over a millennium ago because it's nothing like that at all. People also need to stop being selfish and stop hoarding everything too. You really don't need that much toilet paper. Actually so far in the house I live in the house like seven people, we have yet to buy toilet paper during this pandemic and we still have a lot left. Proof you don't need to buy everything off the shelf
The little flu staying “hola” at the start got me I’m not gonna lie 😂😂 As did the “unfortunately antibiotics hadn’t been invented yet” I love this channel 😂😂
To clarify/support another comment, influenza is viral and viruses are not affected by antibiotics. Of course, this video should be required watching for everyone now. In these hard times.
I don't think we forget about past pandemics rather past generations are no longer with us to share their experiences (oral history). Indeed, "History Matters"!
Here is something for you to research. Usually a strain is named based on the location of the first known outbreak, often because the origin of the strain can’t be found right away or is never discovered. Ever heard of the Marburg virus? Marburg is a town in Germany which experienced a brief outbreak in 1967 of a new deadly virus where victims were suffering hemorrhagic fever (imported by African monkeys heading to a research facility who also died from it). Turns out, this was the first case of a strain of a new filovirus. The next hemorrhagic fever outbreak that took place was in Africa 1976, concerning a mutated form of this filovirus. The outbreak took place along the Ebola River in what was Zaire (hence the name Ebola virus). There was another outbreak in another village along the Ebola river 500km away in neighboring Sudan. At first, these outbreaks were thought to have been caused by the same virus but researchers found genetic differences. So these were named Ebola Sudan and Ebola Zaire.
Watching this a year after things really kicked off in UK and looking at this like its a documentary of the UK government’s response in 2020. Very surreal.
worked in an old mental hospital in the 1980s and the Spanish flu was remembered of some older staff, I think they were memories of older staff who had since left telling of mass burials in the small graveyard of the hospital
Any other history buffs out there who have compared coronavirus to Spanish flu to calm people down by explaining its not nearly as bad as what happened 100 years ago?
My grandfather was a soldier aboard the S.S. Leviathan, the ex German cruise lined S.S Vaterland, which was the largest cruise liner in the world when it went into service, when it suffered the greatest death toll from the Spanish flu of any of the troop transports during the war. Where did this virus originate? As with all flus: China. Why? People, poultry and pigs. A flu virus from a bird might not directly infect a human, but it might be able to infect a pig, pick up a few additional viral genetic strands and then be able to infect a human. How did it get from China to Europe and America? In early 1916 there was a deadly flu like illness in Northern China, a region where Great Britain and France recruited laborers for support jobs in France. There were then scattered outbreaks of a respiratory illness with higher than expected death tolls amongst the British Army camps in France and Britain. British officers with experience in trench warfare were brought to the U.S to help train new officers for the rapidly expanding U.S Army in early 1917. Fort Riley in Kansas was where much of this training occurred. At that time, Ft. Riley was a cavalry base with large numbers of horses, with the surrounding country side full of pig farms. The 1st official report of a flu like illness with higher than expected deaths among young men was reported by a physician from a nearby county in Kansas, who had many local young men drafted and sent to Ft Riley for training, but returned ill. This was the beginning of the 1st wave in the summer of 1918. The deadliest wave was in the fall, when almost simultaneously there was an outbreak at the Naval receiving station in Boston, where many soldiers and sailors arrived from France, in Sierra Leone, West Africa, a major refueling and resupply port frequented by ships sailing from Great Britain and France, and then Brest, France, the major receiving port for troops coming into Europe from Great Britain and overseas. This virus was unique in that it turned off the governor that controlled the body's immune system production of cytokines. While most flus killed the very young and the very old, this virus affected those with the healthiest immune systems the most. The war concentrated a very large number of vulnerable young men into camps, troops transport trains and ships and on the battlefield. Once infected, the immune system would overproduce cytokines, causing a cytokine storm that would cause what in now recognized as ARDS (Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome) and is today treated with antibiotics and mechanical ventilators, none of which existed in 1918. The first Sulfa antibiotics weren't developed until the 1930's. Another side effect of the cytokine storm was DIC (Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation), which affected the blood's ability to clot. Not only did you have people drowning in their own pulmonary secretions, they would also bleed from their eyes and every orifice of their body. If the virus didn't kill you, secondary bacterial pneumonias would likely affect you. Read up on the cruise of the S.S .Leviathan, which was a cruise from hell for those aboard. My grandfather got ill, but not severely. His future brother-in-law from the same infantry regiment was so sick, he remained in hospital his entire time in France. His immune system was weakened and he caught tuberculosis, which ultimately killed him a few years after the war. I always thought my grandfather's reluctance to talk about his Army service was due to the horrors of trench warfare, but no it was because of what he witnessed and experienced about the S.S. Leviathan. e
The famous/infamous figures at the beginning of the video from left to right: Mussolini, Hitler, Staines, ?, ? Painting, Vlad Dracula, perhaps Washington?, Genghis Khan and Ivan the Terrible.
In 1918, My great grandfather, then aged 21, contracted the Spanish Flu and was declared dead by the Navy. His parents went to pick up his body when they noticed his toes wiggling. He was barely clinging on to life. It took him months to recover. He got married had 7 children and 40+ grandchildren. He died at age 88. If the Spanish flu has killed him, so many people would have never been born.
