Dang Simon, though I understand why you are creating a bunch of channels, it is capitalism of the online world. At least it is healthy in studies that is great for anyone to expand their own knowledge to spread to others but without the financial benefits that you take in. A friend of mine that I known since we were teens, did a channel , became popular and the money generated pays all his staff full time and his large facility. Though he only has 6 paid full time staff members, he does really well with RUclips. All the rest of the Money he makes on what he does is pure profit.
My great grandfather fought in WW1. He came down with Spanish Flu and the doctors thought he was going to die. They moved him next to a mass grave awaiting burial but right before they picked him up, a medic saw he was still breathing and they took him back to the aid station. He eventually recovered and was able to return home in April of 1919. I have some of his old postcards that he sent home, his helmet and his uniform. Very touching
@@mikhailbashni8936 Spanish means from Spain not Latin America. Spain is in Europe not Latin America. That's what it's called, there is an explanation to why it's called Spanish Flu and it has nothing to do with the origin of the virus.
Mikhail Bashni colloquially, it is called the Spanish Flu. Goodness gracious don’t be so daft. Also, if you are going to correct someone, don’t mess up basic geography. Spain is in Europe, not Latin America.
My aunt was 16 ears old in 1918. She told me that she could still remember the tears running down her fathers cheeks, as he made her baby sister Emily's casket on the back porch of the house. My grandfather was the only carpenter in a small AZ mining town, and he had to make it himself.
Society should never come to this. What's currently happening in the US breaks my heart. Those who are wealthy enough can buy ranches and go "off grid" essentially, and opt out, which I think shows a huge failure of communal society and class. I'm a dual UK/NZ citizen, I grew up on hearing about "the flu" and "the Wars" ... a huge, HUGE part of me is so very glad that my amazing, loving, ex-Royal Navy (and notably Dutch Jewish) grandfather, died peacefully in his late 90's, because I think him seeing what happened/what was done during Trump's election and "his" America, would have been too much for my wonderful, loving Opa.
Now during Biden more have died , he would have been better off to see the trump admin and pass than to see the tragedy of the Biden admin and their handling of the pandemic
@Boosted Coyote shill something? You mean the sponsors? You mean the thing that pays for the videos? I dont mind them. The dude has to make a living somehow and most of the topics he covers on most of his channels are not going to get monetized due to the screwed up way RUclips works these days.
My great grandfather came to America in 1910, and passed from the flu in 18. His steamer trunk sits in our living room, and looking at it over the last 2 years has taken on a whole new meaning.
Yo. Elon musk has invited 8 ram ranch cowboys to go to meeeerrrsss. Simon whistler, is gonna get his subs raised deep and deep and deep. Haerd and haerd and haeeerrd
May the shine of his glorious head lead us through the darkness of ignorance. May your follicles be as clear as your understanding of the world around you.
This brings back so many memories from my grandmother telling me stories of her mother and baby sister dying when my grandmother was 7yr old in 1919. She cried about it almost daily even in her 90's. She lost so much and was sent to a mean aunt and had a horrible life with her. This was in Alpena Michigan.
Veronica Rossi I agree. When the op said the thing about the terrible aunt all is could think about was Grave of the Fireflies, and how awful that aunt was.
This is a perfect example of why I love this site. An incredibly detailed, informative video that manages to convey large amounts of information in a format that never gets boring or skippable. I believe people in general would be smarter if their teachers or mediums for information were presented in this way. Making something enjoyable, or at the very least not friggen boring, makes it SO much easier to absorb information
That’s why teachers suck these days. They actually don’t know or care about what they teach. So they focus on the clock and the students do too. I imagine RUclipsrs being more qualified and knowledgeable than any 23 year old teacher that went from school to harder school
My great-grandfather was in the war as a reservist in 1917-1918 and got the Spanish flu at the age of 38. He almost died of it and it took him almost two years to get fit again. After that he was panicky about every other flu. In the later years he got two more flu cases and each time he always barricaded himself in the bedroom, declared the top floor of the house a restricted area and only twice a day he let the family give him something to eat and put enough water, liquor and barley coffee on the stairs. Even the doctor was not allowed to come by. My grandfather experienced it as a child and told it over and over again. My great-grandfather was otherwise an extremely resolute and courageous man, a typical moor farmer from Northern Germany. But the flu became his kryptonite for the rest of his life.
It's always fear that's our greatest enemy. We can take precautions, but letting something stop our lives just because we're afraid never amounts to anything. Unfortunately so many people let their fear control them.
He sounds like a smart and very considerate man. He understood the risk he could pose to others while sick, and took every precaution he could to protect the people around him. Kudos to him! I think there are a lot of people who care for those they come in contact with, and want to take those same kind of precautions to not infect others, but can't afford to stay at home because they otherwise would not be able to support themselves or their family. If only society was set up in a way to allow more people to be able to take time off at home when feeling sick-- we'd surely have less outbreaks. But that's preaching to the choir.
My great grandparents on my father's side died during this. At the time, my grandfather was stationed in Europe with the military. When he heard his parents were sick, he requested leave to go home, but was denied. He ended up going AWOL and went home anyway only to find out his parents had already passed away. I don't think he got in trouble with the military, probably because of everything that was going on at the time. When I saw the notification, I had to watch, I needed to know more about the flu that left a scar on my family.
Speaking of education, I am a Registered Nurse working in a high risk facility and my staff are often ESL from Africa or the Islands who are intelligent people and understand the consequences of disease, but are sometimes confused as to what is actually "happening" around them. I refer people to this video as an important tool in understanding what is happening in context to what a pandemic means. Concise education is the only real weapon I have against internet overload and foolish conspiracies in terms of having staff as well as my circle of friends understanding why we are doing what we do to combat Covid 19. You folks are Infoheroes! Thx!
Foolish conspiracies? I can't be bothered even arguing with pharma drones like you any more. Keep believing your models, sweetheart. Remember how accurate they were?
@@BattleBunny1979 It is unattributable, no text of him saying that exist, just a maxim that popped up and someone thought Clemens said it from memory, but the closet thing in print he did write down was "History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends" In any case, I prefer the later.
@@Ollie-trolley shut up, that flu was like wild fire, it didn't kill mostly old people it killed every age. Sexism goes both ways, miss me with that. Woman are far better off now, but that doesn't mean they are happy.
Ollie currently we don't know anything about how deadly the current virus is so you are just spitting BS in that regard. We don't know how many people have been or are asymptomatic either, all the studies done so far indicate a range of 3%-7% depending on where. However what we do know is the outcome ratio right now, we have 1.39million recovered and 280.000 dead approximately. So about 1.7million resolved, which in no way supports your 0.02% CFR or IFR for that matter. Best estimates right now put it in the 3-6.5% range for CFR but I don't see the numbers supporting that either, it looks higher to me. But I'm going with the official estimates instead of making up my own like you do.
Clever, you write that yourself? BTW the entire self quarantine and shelter in place effort has so far kept it from killing tens of millions of people. That is evidence we learned from history...
Biographics released this video weeks after the start of lockdown measures across the US. Which, to me, means your team did a good amount of research and pre/post production. Excellent video as always, it's crazy how much more interesting and trustworthy these channels are compared to the news cycle.
He’s posting sometimes hours worth of content a day. He’s working pretty hard. That’s why Business Blaze is his best channel. He gets to be his interesting self.
Marshall Miles do you mean what’s the others? I can start a list, but I’ll forget half of them. Biographics Geographics Megaprojects Business Blaze (my favorite) Top Tenz .......
I just wanted to say I really love all of Simons channels all 100 of them, but this one is my favourite and I think the videos put out by Simon and his team are fantastic and really informative. Keep up the good work, you guys were a huge influence on me and have motivated me to start my own channel a little while ago as well
there's separate teams behind each channel, writers, editors etc Only biographics and geographics are done by the same group. Simon just reads the scripts and sends the raw footage to whoever the editor is for that video. That's how he can manage to make videos for 8 channels. So it's not one team.
@@deuter458624 haha yea i think its his presenting style thats got me addicted to all his channels. I watch top tenz, biographics,geographics, business blaze and today i found out pretty regularly
It's good to look at our past mistakes to avoid repeating them. And it appears that we have learned ***ruffles papers, checks notes*** ... nothing! Yeah, it says right here: "We have learned nothing." So that's that.
The biggest thing the west seems to be ignoring is how much mask wearing helped during that pandemic. Now it's all idiots saying masks infringe on their 'freedoms', and saying stupid things like stay at home orders being comparable to Nazi Germany. Biggest crock I've heard yet. We let too many stupid people survive these days, apparently.
@@frogpalpeeper4249 Do you mean the emails containing Top Secret National security information that ended up on a perverts laptop and who knows where else?
My Great Grandmother's first husband died from the flu in 1919. I knew her. She outlived 3 husbands & passed away in 1980. P.S. her second husband died of complications from "The Great War".
@@chico305SIGMA yes, it is. She married her second husband after 1919 when he had returned from Transporting troops back from Russia. (White Russians/Revolution). He subsequently passed away in 1923. P.S., her third had an uneventful long life although hers was longer. lol
I am so glad you did this. I wish more people would educate themselves on this flu. There are things to be afraid of. And spectacular information to be had. I didn’t hear you mention this, but the beginnings of antibiotics were inspired by this flu, and a need for the Staph and Strep infection management.
My gran retold stories she heard from her mother of that pandemic here in South Africa. Whole families were wiped out overnight. Infants would be found clutched in the arms of their deceased mothers, orphaned and with no immediate family anymore. Heartbreaking and very scary.
My maternal grandfather was an American soldier in France in the fall of 1918. He caught the Spanish flu, and had it so bad he was placed in a segregated ward for those who were about to die, and all of his possessions were given away. However, much to the surprise of his doctor, he recovered. Supposedly, the first to have recovered after being placed on the death ward. He didn't get his possessions back, but did survive. He also was fortunate in that he didn't get out of the hospital until after the armistice, and so missed the poison gas and combat hazards faced by the other fellows in his unit. His wife, my grandmother, worked as a nurse in Springfield, Illinois and never caught it. She said that the doctor she worked for took good care of his nurses and made sure that they took all precautions and took good care of themselves.
Yeah, she was pretty amazing. Outrage from the Italian Hall Disaster certainly helped the cause. It feels as though that disaster killed Calumet in the long run. Sad place if you go there today.
Seriously, your cadence and articulation makes anything interesting. You do very well orating, I assume you know this already haha. I truly appreciate what you do.
Agreed. This makes things easily digestible. I like to listen to these things while working and its nice to have it split into blocks if I need a small break.
Thank you for sharing this video. After years of study on the Spanish flu, you surprised me with additional information I was not aware of. I love your channels.
I wrote my senior thesis on this last year and the worst city affected was Philadelphia, which had cases skyrocket after they held a war bond parade. Some cities like Seattle and St. Louis also saw the potential threat this new type of flu had after seeing the destruction it caused in other cities that didn't implement measures (much to the citizen's dismay) and by implementing these measures (closing down dance halls, wearing masks, making it illegal to spit in public, etc), they had far fewer cases. Out of curiosity, I googled when the first effective flu vaccine was created and it wasn't until the 1930s.
I think this is one of the few deadly diseases my grandma didn’t catch, she had smallpox and diphtheria not once, but twice. But hey she lived to be 102.
My grandmother nursed in Johannesburg, SA, during the Spanish Flu. She also had 4 children, ranging in age from 14 years to 5 years. They were sent to live out the epidemic on a family farm. Nobody in the family became sick, although both my grandparents worked in hospitals, my grandfather as a clerk. My father fought in WW1,but also never caught the flu. He left the army in 1922. He was 15 years older than my Mum, so I grew up on stories about WW1 and WW2.
@@Callisto-vy7vx No really, International Nurses Day is May 12th. Maybe your sister said next week it is International Nurses Day? Edit: National Nurses Day is May 6th so could also be confusion with that.
My grandmother, then 11 years old, caught that influenza in 1918. Sadly, her six sisters didn't recover and died! My grandmother survived, not well, though. She remained frail for the rest of her life.
Thank you Simon. My Grandfather died in the 1918 flu. But my Grandmother did not she had 4 sons who were not affected. The number I heard was close to 80 million deaths. In fact there were entire remote island populations which were destroyed.
Garrison Nichols Those numbers are doctored at best and untruthful at worst. Stop being a sheep. Do research. Search communism myths debunked with facts.
@Garrison Nichols Despite what JP claims, the facts actually back you up. At best Communist states were miserable and totalitarian, made worse by the tendency to use force and oppress their populations. JP will likely use the modern undergraduate excuse of " that wasn't REAL communism", but it is what comes from any implenentation of that faulty ideology.
It would of been Anne Frank's birthday next month, I think that covering her short and harrowing life would make for a great episode of the show. PS I love this channel, keep up the good work, it is much appreciated 🙂
@@jordanwilliams9300 Thanks for telling me friend! Without being rude to Simon, I actually didn't even know that channel existed (i'm subscribed to the others, but I must of missed that one somehow). You have my gratitude :) .
At about a 1/2 hour long, this RUclips video was very informative. And it helps to understand the risks associated with this current pandemic. Stay safe. 🙂
The Left can't Meme - During the Spanish Flu we weren't a bunch of entitled, undisciplined crybabies. We wore masks when told, followed quarantine, and listened to our experts. I doubt many people wanted to kill their friends and family for a beach day, and those who valued money over lives were considered to be bad people.
John Matrixx covid 19 isn't really that deadly. If it was deadly, it wouldn't be that contagious. Kinda hard to spread the virus when the host is dead.
"It took only one single virus, inside a single droplet out of forty thousand ejected by a single sneeze and just like that, you were infected" * sneezes *
Always love your videos! This one is no exception! Thorough enjoyed!! A very apt time lol. I recently found out that the actual Chef Boyardee had a super cool life, where he helped people stay fed in the depression, and the allies during the war, and had a restaurant. I think it would be great to see a biographics on him! Please keep it up!
If the Spanish flu happened today I don't really think people understand what would happen. In 1918 there wasn't world travel like today, so the spread would be far more. Probably close to a quarter billion dead with today's population, with 2-3 billion infected. That would mean many healthcare workers, telecommunications workers, electricians, leaders of industry, Government officials, medicine manufacturers, food suppliers, police etc... Would die. Eventually due to lack of workers. That would mean your electricity would go out, cell phones out, food shortages, people wouldn't be able to get medicine because of lack of production. And governments would go out as well in some countries. With no exaggeration every civilization eventually falls, the Spanish flu today could end modern society as we know it. So while covid is not that.... Thankfully. Respect it and do what the experts say and learn from the past.
bdegrds The mortality rate would still be worse then(1918) than today because all of the troops in close proximity going back and forth on ships and trains and at huge military camps also the fact medicine has come a long way since then to treat it at a simptonmatic level and now we have antibiotics which wasn't about then. 🏴🇬🇧
We have antibiotics today, so it's unlikely any H1N1 flu would be that bad these days. It's estimated that the vast majority of deaths were caused by secondary bacterial pneumonia, not the flu virus itself. The 2009 H1N1 strain would have probably been just as bad then, but it isn't now because modern medicine knows how to deal with it.
@@briebel2684 viruses are not effected by antibiotics. So it would help with 2ndary infections but not the cytokine storms that killed many of the younger victims.
@@briebel2684 Except for viruses that we don't know about that have no vaccine (not antibiotics) you know like Covid19 which also happens to cause ARDS in patients. With all our modern medicine and technology how are we dealing with Covid19? Quarantines. Lock downs. Face masks. It's the height of hubris to think we humans have that kind of power. Humanity managed to kill 10million or so of itself in WW1 across 4 years. Nature managed that in less than half that. Imagine a virus which had the pathogenicity of the Spanish flu couple with the lethality of something like ebola or anthrax. It would make Spanish flu look like a picnic. Something like that is lurking out there almost certainly.
No, no, no we must panic, wear masks, stand 2 meters apart, only leave the house for essential journey's and hand over all our civil liberties to make sure everyone is safe. If you dont comply, you'll have to be sent to a re-education camp, sorry.
1:25 - Part 1 - March of the invisible tyrant 1:35 - Chapter 1 - A mysterious origin 5:35 - Chapter 2 - Voices in the 2nd wave 10:05 - Chapter 3 - The last waves 15:40 - Part 2 - Profiling the killer 15:50 - Chapter 1 - One of a kind 18:15 - Chapter 2 - Modus operandi 22:20 - Part 3 - Assessing the damage 22:30 - Chapter 1 - A pale rider 25:15 - Chapter 2 - A tragedy of the unborn 27:25 - Part 4 - Could it happen today ?
No my friend, you had it right the first time... you DO have new channels coming out multiple times a week, lmao! I'm not complaining though, I love them all! Especially Blaze! Keep up the great work, and keep Danny on his toes! Lol
@@cgt3704 I don't know who they are, so upvote because I come to this channel to find out about people I don't know about. Although I'd also like to hear about Ceausescu.
Most of my grandmothers family and separately her future husbands, my grandfather’s family, died in the catastrophic Moose Lake fire of 1918. My grandmother then caught the Spanish Flu sometime after that when she was 2 or 3, I think that was the 2nd wave. She survived, obviously since I was born. My grandfather’s mother also caught the Spanish Flu but she died so my grandfather was raised by an older sister.
Obviously, the numbers were padded, seriously though my grandmother was born on 1918 she would have been 102 this June. She did not make the milestone, she passed away this April, not by Covid19, but not making it to a hospital. The Doctors told us if we can try to ride it out and avoid the overcrowded NYC hospital at the time. She survived two major epidemics RIP Palina Marcela
This was so interesting. My great-great grandmother died in 1918...and she was pregnant at the time. Thank you for the general overview of how the virus works in our body.
Simon should share how he grew that glorious mane. It is every bearded guy’s dream 🙌🏽 Great content as well. The Black Death and the Spanish Flu have always fascinate me
Late to this, sorry. My great-granddad was in the USA army during the 1918 pandemic. He contracted the Spanish flu and lost all his teeth and went bald due to it. He would tell about the number of soldiers in the hospital ward. He said people were dying so fast they couldn’t keep up and didn’t have storage for that number of bodies, so they had to stack them in the ward until they could be taken care of properly.
My great uncle was at Camp Funston at that time. He died, but not due to the Flu. At that particular time, the First Wave was spreading. However, that didn’t always seem like the most prevalent health concern at the camp. There was a terrible, deadly outbreak of the measles. That’s what took my uncle.
A few years ago I worked for a non-profit in Mississippi. On the property was a family graveyard. The sadist graves were the graves of a woman and her 5 children. The children all died within a month of each other and the mother dying last. I can't imagine the grief the mother felt.
@@zeroireland actually, Jack was his father, he went roaming around the world in search for pokemon and died a horrible death killed by a swarm of Beedrils, his wife survives him while being banged by Professor Oak.
The flu affected the life span of those born during the pandemic. Many patients were left mentally "incompetent" never capable of reaching full consciousness. Dr Oliver Sachs was a doctor who treated these people and bought some of them back to "full" consciousness after decades in a comatose state called Catatonia lethargica bought on during their bout of Spanish flu. Robin William's played Sachs in the film Awakenings - the title of Sachs' memoirs of his experiences.
@@professorrosenstock5026 It seems the racists were racist beforehand. What has definitely increased is anti-Chinese communist party sentiment. There is a difference.
One of the Spanish Influenza victims was my great aunt, Eleanor Jaques, who was about 8 years of age when she died - likely during the first or second waves of the flu.
„The only thing humanity has ever learned from history is that humanity never learned from history“. Sad but oh so true, especially in light of current events… Thank you Simon for this most interesting contribution.
Simon, this is by far the best video I have seen from you. It is in depth and well stated. Congratulations on that, please keep up the great work and yes, I'll continue watching (though I can't stay home since my job I'm happy to have involves travel as a vital thing.) I'm pleased that you continue to make such wonderful videos.
Nothing like some well researched historical perspective to cut through the present day crap like a well directed laser! Many thanks! This will save lives.
Regarding the unborn-it's also probably because the pregnant women died sometime during their pregnancy since most pregnant women WERE in the target age bracket for this particular strain
The countermeasures here are what were put in place at the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic (and also hand-washing, which is an excellent preventative against flu, which is often spread by surfaces and hand, but not that effective against COVID-19). In other words, our first response was to treat it like influenza.
All airborne viral pathogens require the same basic measures of mitigation: social distancing/hand washing/masks. Unlike then however we today have the benefit of antiviral medications and vastly improved medical treatments - as well as a vaccine. Thus the former can help reduce your chances of being exposed so as to be infected to a degree. The latter are what help you once you are infected. In the end however the goal as always is to prevent exposure and subsequent infection. For that to happen the virus must be cut off from its host to reduce local morbidity. Vaccination is the most effective way to achieve this as you can via mass vaccination trigger an immunological response in large numbers of people very quickly. In the case of Influenza - and now Covid - there is a limit to such mitigation because these viral pathogens are = "zoonotic" - hence they exist in other species. We can not therefore eradicate them. All we can do is to wage an ongoing campaign to limit their spread and hence the adverse impact of their presence in communities. They are a part of the environment now. 🤔
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Halifax made it into a video!!!!!! My hometown! Also the Halifax Explosion (the largest man-made, pre-nuclear explosion in history) would be a great episode :)
ICU nurse here - well researched and explained. Thank you for being a voice of truth in a sea of idiots spouting whatever conspiracy theory they read on social media 🙄
People do not realize how much worse COVID-19 could be.... It’s terrible that people are dying from this. And I don’t want to come off as insulting those who will pass away from a pandemic. This reality check could be so, so much worse, though. This was a break, as terrible as it is to say. Humanity, as a whole, was lucky the repercussions are so light, because we were woefully unprepared, and so many more could have been killed from negligence. I hope this wake up call acts as a warning for the future. Next time we may not be so “lucky.” And these are words spoken from someone who may very well be a victim of the disease I am writing about. COVID 19. I could still fall victim to it.... still die. It’s scary to think about. But I’ll hope for the best and a better future. Thanks for reading my ramblings.
You know the sad thing unfortunately? There will still be people who will continue to deny the facts one way or another as long as they can fit in their political narrative. That's someone's family member and not only that, they can go on with their ignorant lives and get someone else infected and not even bat an eye at it. Completely blind to reality.
@@itsasquid i had to bite my tongue yesterday when a customer went off about having to wear a mask "because of this fake disease". In my own family, my cousin's sister-in-law died of COVID19 last month. We lost a great uncle (my grandmother's last remaining sibling) a week later. On June 29th, a friend posted that she and her fiance were both diagnosed with coronavirus. A week later, she was dead and he was in a coma, and he died a few days ago. So, that's 4 people in my sphere dead in the last month. If I'm not at work and someone wants to have a discussion about this "fake disease", imma punch them right in the throat.
It also boggles my mind that people can talk about the death rate being much smaller than x,y, or z but we are only a few months in. The pandemic of 1918 lasted for over 4 years, we don’t know how bad COVID could be yet. We are coming into a second wave. Listen to science, understand the scientific method, and stay safe everyone.
Enjoy my educational content? Well, why not check out my new channel Megaprojects: ruclips.net/channel/UC0woBco6Dgcxt0h8SwyyOmw
Wow this waa pinned 2 weeks ago 0:
@@sophiaangelaasido4634 Yeah! I wonder why.
Dang Simon, though I understand why you are creating a bunch of channels, it is capitalism of the online world. At least it is healthy in studies that is great for anyone to expand their own knowledge to spread to others but without the financial benefits that you take in. A friend of mine that I known since we were teens, did a channel , became popular and the money generated pays all his staff full time and his large facility. Though he only has 6 paid full time staff members, he does really well with RUclips. All the rest of the Money he makes on what he does is pure profit.
Because he was most fear general for allies
China, China, China, yeah I believe that.
My great grandfather fought in WW1. He came down with Spanish Flu and the doctors thought he was going to die. They moved him next to a mass grave awaiting burial but right before they picked him up, a medic saw he was still breathing and they took him back to the aid station. He eventually recovered and was able to return home in April of 1919. I have some of his old postcards that he sent home, his helmet and his uniform. Very touching
Not the "Spanish" Flu you moron, it didn't come from Spain or any other Latin American country. By the way, I was just called a moron for saying that.
@@mikhailbashni8936 Bit harsh, considering that's what it was called for the majority of the video and that's what most people know it as
@@mikhailbashni8936 Spanish means from Spain not Latin America. Spain is in Europe not Latin America. That's what it's called, there is an explanation to why it's called Spanish Flu and it has nothing to do with the origin of the virus.
Mikhail Bashni colloquially, it is called the Spanish Flu. Goodness gracious don’t be so daft. Also, if you are going to correct someone, don’t mess up basic geography. Spain is in Europe, not Latin America.
@@mikhailbashni8936 just shut up.
My aunt was 16 ears old in 1918. She told me that she could still remember the tears running down her fathers cheeks, as he made her baby sister Emily's casket on the back porch of the house.
My grandfather was the only carpenter in a small AZ mining town, and he had to make it himself.
Wow
Oh man...that's just heartbreaking :(
Society should never come to this. What's currently happening in the US breaks my heart. Those who are wealthy enough can buy ranches and go "off grid" essentially, and opt out, which I think shows a huge failure of communal society and class. I'm a dual UK/NZ citizen, I grew up on hearing about "the flu" and "the Wars" ... a huge, HUGE part of me is so very glad that my amazing, loving, ex-Royal Navy (and notably Dutch Jewish) grandfather, died peacefully in his late 90's, because I think him seeing what happened/what was done during Trump's election and "his" America, would have been too much for my wonderful, loving Opa.
@@thepoppyvalentine What did he do?
Now during Biden more have died , he would have been better off to see the trump admin and pass than to see the tragedy of the Biden admin and their handling of the pandemic
Simon: "new channels come out a couple times a week!"
Me: "... Yeah, sounds right"
@Boosted Coyote shill something? You mean the sponsors? You mean the thing that pays for the videos? I dont mind them. The dude has to make a living somehow and most of the topics he covers on most of his channels are not going to get monetized due to the screwed up way RUclips works these days.
@Boosted Coyote Yeah, how dare he try to make a living. This is literally his job. If he doesn't have sponsors we don't get videos.
Boosted Coyote you’re showing your ignorance!
@Boosted Coyote not everyone has money fall out of their ass like you do apparently. Videos take time and effort to make.
RUclips: How many channels would you like to host.
Simon: Yes
stop.
How many channels does he host? I only know this and geographics
This SLAYED me😂😂
Brilliant!
Got to pay the bills some how 🤣
My great grandfather came to America in 1910, and passed from the flu in 18. His steamer trunk sits in our living room, and looking at it over the last 2 years has taken on a whole new meaning.
"New channels come out a couple times a week"
Simon, I don't think that was a mistake.
Haha, I'm not sure it was. He's a busy guy. 😄
How does he do it xD?
hes planning a takeover
I was just thinking this lol
@@Altered_Alchemist i told him to stop but he wouldn't listen *crawl to camera* he...wouldn't...listen
Soon every channel will be presented by Simon Whistler. I for one welcome out new overlord and claim the mantle of First Whistler
honestly we could do worse.
Yo. Elon musk has invited 8 ram ranch cowboys to go to meeeerrrsss. Simon whistler, is gonna get his subs raised deep and deep and deep. Haerd and haerd and haeeerrd
I'm against monopolies..
May the shine of his glorious head lead us through the darkness of ignorance. May your follicles be as clear as your understanding of the world around you.
Alright, Kent Brockman. 😅
This brings back so many memories from my grandmother telling me stories of her mother and baby sister dying when my grandmother was 7yr old in 1919. She cried about it almost daily even in her 90's. She lost so much and was sent to a mean aunt and had a horrible life with her. This was in Alpena Michigan.
Don’t watch grave of the Fireflies
Thank you for sharing part her story.
I've always remembered my father, born in 1915, teliing me of family who died from it in Alberta. I took covid seriously from the start.
@@lh9591 It's an amazing movie. Sad but amazing.
Veronica Rossi
I agree. When the op said the thing about the terrible aunt all is could think about was Grave of the Fireflies, and how awful that aunt was.
Ah yes, one of my favorite historical figures, The Flu.
😂😂😂
If you can't beat em, then catch em.
Perfect Biography indeed! Really powerful and inspiring this Flu!
To be fair I’m sure there will be a new channel in a week all about famous diseases.
Christopher Shuba content by Simon Whistler to be sure.
Year 2101. Simon’s grandson’s channel: COVID-19, the great pandemic of 21st century
I really do hope Covid is the worst part of the 2020's/ 21st century...
@@hailtothevic no chance, its just the start of the disasters heading our way
@@aeris2001 I chose a bad time to stop drinking...
Alternate title "COVID-19, the first great pandemic of 21st century"
@@hailtothevic Just don't drink and smoke before and after vaccination.
This is a perfect example of why I love this site. An incredibly detailed, informative video that manages to convey large amounts of information in a format that never gets boring or skippable. I believe people in general would be smarter if their teachers or mediums for information were presented in this way. Making something enjoyable, or at the very least not friggen boring, makes it SO much easier to absorb information
I definitely agree with that! You put it better than I could. Learning should be enjoyable
The problem is that people do expect that now, making it hard to learn anything that’s not given the Hollywood treatment.
That’s why teachers suck these days. They actually don’t know or care about what they teach. So they focus on the clock and the students do too.
I imagine RUclipsrs being more qualified and knowledgeable than any 23 year old teacher that went from school to harder school
My great-grandfather was in the war as a reservist in 1917-1918 and got the Spanish flu at the age of 38. He almost died of it and it took him almost two years to get fit again. After that he was panicky about every other flu. In the later years he got two more flu cases and each time he always barricaded himself in the bedroom, declared the top floor of the house a restricted area and only twice a day he let the family give him something to eat and put enough water, liquor and barley coffee on the stairs. Even the doctor was not allowed to come by. My grandfather experienced it as a child and told it over and over again. My great-grandfather was otherwise an extremely resolute and courageous man, a typical moor farmer from Northern Germany. But the flu became his kryptonite for the rest of his life.
It's always fear that's our greatest enemy. We can take precautions, but letting something stop our lives just because we're afraid never amounts to anything. Unfortunately so many people let their fear control them.
He sounds like a smart and very considerate man. He understood the risk he could pose to others while sick, and took every precaution he could to protect the people around him. Kudos to him!
I think there are a lot of people who care for those they come in contact with, and want to take those same kind of precautions to not infect others, but can't afford to stay at home because they otherwise would not be able to support themselves or their family. If only society was set up in a way to allow more people to be able to take time off at home when feeling sick-- we'd surely have less outbreaks. But that's preaching to the choir.
My great grandparents on my father's side died during this. At the time, my grandfather was stationed in Europe with the military. When he heard his parents were sick, he requested leave to go home, but was denied. He ended up going AWOL and went home anyway only to find out his parents had already passed away. I don't think he got in trouble with the military, probably because of everything that was going on at the time. When I saw the notification, I had to watch, I needed to know more about the flu that left a scar on my family.
Speaking of education, I am a Registered Nurse working in a high risk facility and my staff are often ESL from Africa or the Islands who are intelligent people and understand the consequences of disease, but are sometimes confused as to what is actually "happening" around them. I refer people to this video as an important tool in understanding what is happening in context to what a pandemic means. Concise education is the only real weapon I have against internet overload and foolish conspiracies in terms of having staff as well as my circle of friends understanding why we are doing what we do to combat Covid 19. You folks are Infoheroes! Thx!
Foolish conspiracies? I can't be bothered even arguing with pharma drones like you any more. Keep believing your models, sweetheart. Remember how accurate they were?
"History doesnt repeat itself, but it often rhymes" -Albert Einstein
that was mark twain
@@BattleBunny1979 Yes, its called a joke
@@NeverGoingToGiveYouUp000 nah, jokes are funny.
@@BattleBunny1979 It is unattributable, no text of him saying that exist, just a maxim that popped up and someone thought Clemens said it from memory, but the closet thing in print he did write down was "History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends" In any case, I prefer the later.
Spanish flu rhymes with what our president said. Kung flu
"Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It."
covid-19 is not the same. please stop
@@Ollie-trolley shut up, that flu was like wild fire, it didn't kill mostly old people it killed every age. Sexism goes both ways, miss me with that. Woman are far better off now, but that doesn't mean they are happy.
Ollie currently we don't know anything about how deadly the current virus is so you are just spitting BS in that regard. We don't know how many people have been or are asymptomatic either, all the studies done so far indicate a range of 3%-7% depending on where.
However what we do know is the outcome ratio right now, we have 1.39million recovered and 280.000 dead approximately. So about 1.7million resolved, which in no way supports your 0.02% CFR or IFR for that matter. Best estimates right now put it in the 3-6.5% range for CFR but I don't see the numbers supporting that either, it looks higher to me. But I'm going with the official estimates instead of making up my own like you do.
@@Ollie-trolley no there isn't sexism
Clever, you write that yourself? BTW the entire self quarantine and shelter in place effort has so far kept it from killing tens of millions of people. That is evidence we learned from history...
My great-grandmother lost 2 sons to the pandemic in 1918. They died a day apart, I can only imagine the grief she must have felt.
that's really heavy. couldn't even imagine :(
I really appreciate topics like this. Many people don't know how serious the Spanish Flu actually was.
"Could it happen today?"
*Looks around* yes. Yes it could.
Biographics released this video weeks after the start of lockdown measures across the US. Which, to me, means your team did a good amount of research and pre/post production. Excellent video as always, it's crazy how much more interesting and trustworthy these channels are compared to the news cycle.
Man, you're popping out new channels left and right! Don't forget to breathe, and eat food!
He’s posting sometimes hours worth of content a day. He’s working pretty hard. That’s why Business Blaze is his best channel. He gets to be his interesting self.
was the others?
Marshall Miles do you mean what’s the others? I can start a list, but I’ll forget half of them.
Biographics
Geographics
Megaprojects
Business Blaze (my favorite)
Top Tenz
.......
Christy T .... Today I found Out, Visual Politik, Highlight History, plus the podcasts Simon Whistler Show and Brainfood Show
I think he just functions on coffee and cocaine.
I just wanted to say I really love all of Simons channels all 100 of them, but this one is my favourite and I think the videos put out by Simon and his team are fantastic and really informative. Keep up the good work, you guys were a huge influence on me and have motivated me to start my own channel a little while ago as well
there's separate teams behind each channel, writers, editors etc
Only biographics and geographics are done by the same group.
Simon just reads the scripts and sends the raw footage to whoever the editor is for that video.
That's how he can manage to make videos for 8 channels.
So it's not one team.
HistorySpark
Have you taken to watching Simon’s channel Business Blaze🔥 ??? Watch a video and you’ll be hooked 😻 ★ＬＥＧＥＮＤ☆
@@deuter458624 haha yea i think its his presenting style thats got me addicted to all his channels. I watch top tenz, biographics,geographics, business blaze and today i found out pretty regularly
It's good to look at our past mistakes to avoid repeating them. And it appears that we have learned ***ruffles papers, checks notes*** ... nothing! Yeah, it says right here: "We have learned nothing." So that's that.
yeah, looks like the only cinsistent thing in human race is to learn nothing from past mistakes :(
Obey, submit, comply, live in fear!
The biggest thing the west seems to be ignoring is how much mask wearing helped during that pandemic. Now it's all idiots saying masks infringe on their 'freedoms', and saying stupid things like stay at home orders being comparable to Nazi Germany. Biggest crock I've heard yet.
We let too many stupid people survive these days, apparently.
humans, complete dumbasses since the dawn of time
@@micahhlopez7678 They Live!
100 years later: let's politicise face masks!
"BUT I HAVE A BREATHING PROBLEM AND I DONT WANT TO SMELL MY OWN BREATH AND IT'S A 5G MICROCHIP CONSPIRACY AND MY OXYGEN LEVELS!!!"
Isn't Covid somehow connected to Hillary's emails? Hmm...
@@frogpalpeeper4249 Do you mean the emails containing Top Secret National security information that ended up on a perverts laptop and who knows where else?
@@nosuchthing8 I was being sarcastic. Sorry that wasn't clear.
@@nosuchthing8
So you think #1 Trump thinks the virus was a hoax and #2 he caused 200,000 deaths because of it???
I bet mom is proud of you.
Simon: “Just before we get started I want to mention...”
Me: *skip* *skip* *skip*
Use sponsorskip
My Great Grandmother's first husband died from the flu in 1919. I knew her. She outlived 3 husbands & passed away in 1980. P.S. her second husband died of complications from "The Great War".
World War 1 is called "The Great War"
@@chico305SIGMA yes, it is. She married her second husband after 1919 when he had returned from Transporting troops back from Russia. (White Russians/Revolution). He subsequently passed away in 1923. P.S., her third had an uneventful long life although hers was longer. lol
she was definitely killing them haha
My grandmother caught the flu when she was 16 and it almost killed her. It did kill her parents.
Plinkitee I know you didn’t know them but I’m sorry that that’s how your great-grandparents passed away
@@haleighferland6577 Thank you 🙂
That’s awful! 😔
Is she ok
@@RodolphosTechchannel She died on 1984 at the age of 82. She was fine. 😁
I am so glad you did this. I wish more people would educate themselves on this flu. There are things to be afraid of. And spectacular information to be had. I didn’t hear you mention this, but the beginnings of antibiotics were inspired by this flu, and a need for the Staph and Strep infection management.
this channel is probably the most interesting thing i've stumbled upon this year
My gran retold stories she heard from her mother of that pandemic here in South Africa. Whole families were wiped out overnight. Infants would be found clutched in the arms of their deceased mothers, orphaned and with no immediate family anymore. Heartbreaking and very scary.
My maternal grandfather was an American soldier in France in the fall of 1918. He caught the Spanish flu, and had it so bad he was placed in a segregated ward for those who were about to die, and all of his possessions were given away. However, much to the surprise of his doctor, he recovered. Supposedly, the first to have recovered after being placed on the death ward. He didn't get his possessions back, but did survive. He also was fortunate in that he didn't get out of the hospital until after the armistice, and so missed the poison gas and combat hazards faced by the other fellows in his unit. His wife, my grandmother, worked as a nurse in Springfield, Illinois and never caught it. She said that the doctor she worked for took good care of his nurses and made sure that they took all precautions and took good care of themselves.
Can you do one on Mother Jones, "The Most Dangerous Woman in America", who organized unions and fought to abolish the use of child labor?
Yeah, she was pretty amazing. Outrage from the Italian Hall Disaster certainly helped the cause. It feels as though that disaster killed Calumet in the long run. Sad place if you go there today.
Seriously, your cadence and articulation makes anything interesting. You do very well orating, I assume you know this already haha. I truly appreciate what you do.
Simon Whistler - the man, the myth, the legend. Teaching more than any teacher. Man, you are awesome!
you need to be in my history lessons!
@@sarahbryant8768 why?
This brings tears to my eyes in 2022 as I think back on the loss and experience of Covid from 2020-2021.
This all sounds so familiar..... I just can't put my finger on why.
Spanish flu was comparatively much, MUCH worse than Covid 19.
You probably shouldn't put your finger on it.
Covid is the common cold compared to this
@@joyceblackmon1745 Covid could easily be worse, how bad would Covid have been back then after a war, no freedom of press, no ventilators etc.
People dont learn from history and they repeat it.
Hi Biographics! Just wanted to say that I prefer the "new" three-act format for complicated / large topics like this one. Keep it up :)
Agreed. This makes things easily digestible. I like to listen to these things while working and its nice to have it split into blocks if I need a small break.
Thank you for sharing this video. After years of study on the Spanish flu, you surprised me with additional information I was not aware of. I love your channels.
I wrote my senior thesis on this last year and the worst city affected was Philadelphia, which had cases skyrocket after they held a war bond parade. Some cities like Seattle and St. Louis also saw the potential threat this new type of flu had after seeing the destruction it caused in other cities that didn't implement measures (much to the citizen's dismay) and by implementing these measures (closing down dance halls, wearing masks, making it illegal to spit in public, etc), they had far fewer cases.
Out of curiosity, I googled when the first effective flu vaccine was created and it wasn't until the 1930s.
I think this is one of the few deadly diseases my grandma didn’t catch, she had smallpox and diphtheria not once, but twice. But hey she lived to be 102.
What a terrible way to die.
You don’t catch smallpox twice.
No polio?
@@unicornglitterfart5201 she had diphtheria twice.
@@FYMASMD nope.
The baby's born after the pandemic belonged to the generation who was more likely to be drafted to WWII. I see some irony in there
Thats what happens when the wars are only 20 years apart.
Round 3:
...WWIII loading.
@@Crazt If WWIII has been reloading this whole time I'm scared to see what it fires
My grandmother nursed in Johannesburg, SA, during the Spanish Flu. She also had 4 children, ranging in age from 14 years to 5 years. They were sent to live out the epidemic on a family farm.
Nobody in the family became sick, although both my grandparents worked in hospitals, my grandfather as a clerk.
My father fought in WW1,but also never caught the flu. He left the army in 1922. He was 15 years older than my Mum, so I grew up on stories about WW1 and WW2.
@@Crazt This aged pretty well.
Last time I was this early, we could still go outside
_Covid19 is the greatest Dempanic ever._
@spudnic88 you're a true idiot. Lol.
It's international nurses day and we got this video! I appreciate all nurses around the world. We love your selflessness, courage and dedication.
@Lodogg 3323 I'm not. My sister is a registered nurse on the front lines. Cheers!
@@Callisto-vy7vx No really, International Nurses Day is May 12th. Maybe your sister said next week it is International Nurses Day?
Edit: National Nurses Day is May 6th so could also be confusion with that.
My grandmother, then 11 years old, caught that influenza in 1918. Sadly, her six sisters didn't recover and died! My grandmother survived, not well, though. She remained frail for the rest of her life.
Thank you Simon. My Grandfather died in the 1918 flu. But my Grandmother did not she had 4 sons who were not affected. The number I heard was close to 80 million deaths. In fact there were entire remote island populations which were destroyed.
That Simon sneeze was perfection.
24:19 “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic” - Joseph Stalin. Sad but true
Garrison Nichols Those numbers are doctored at best and untruthful at worst. Stop being a sheep. Do research. Search communism myths debunked with facts.
@Garrison Nichols Despite what JP claims, the facts actually back you up. At best Communist states were miserable and totalitarian, made worse by the tendency to use force and oppress their populations. JP will likely use the modern undergraduate excuse of " that wasn't REAL communism", but it is what comes from any implenentation of that faulty ideology.
Owain Shebbeare you’re so convinced that you’re right, where’s your sources?
Damn he's evil Man
It would of been Anne Frank's birthday next month, I think that covering her short and harrowing life would make for a great episode of the show. PS I love this channel, keep up the good work, it is much appreciated 🙂
There's a Highlight History (another Simon channel) on Anne Frank. It's quick but it's something.
@@jordanwilliams9300 Thanks for telling me friend! Without being rude to Simon, I actually didn't even know that channel existed (i'm subscribed to the others, but I must of missed that one somehow). You have my gratitude :) .
Would have* been
My buddy great grandma was a kid during Spanish flu times. She was one of 13 kids and she was the only one who survived out of her siblings.
I think I met her,she was an only child when I bumped into her.She made her living by selling lucky heather.
At about a 1/2 hour long, this RUclips video was very informative. And it helps to understand the risks associated with this current pandemic. Stay safe. 🙂
Covid is a scamdemic.
"Could it happen again today?" 😂🤣😭
Well thankfully, it hasn't. We just got to endure weeks if lockdowns and economic collapse over a harsh cold.
@@petercarioscia9189 harsh cold? 60,000 Americans dead in 30 days.
The Left can't Meme - During the Spanish Flu we weren't a bunch of entitled, undisciplined crybabies. We wore masks when told, followed quarantine, and listened to our experts. I doubt many people wanted to kill their friends and family for a beach day, and those who valued money over lives were considered to be bad people.
@@petercarioscia9189 As long as they bail out the Fortune 500 companies, then everything will be fine.
bdegrds the flu has killed 45k in one season (and it hasn’t been 30 days- learn to count) and there was no coverage on it whatsoever. Not far off
One of the best videos of the Spanish flu.Great narration and writing.Very appropriate for today’s pandemic.
Covid 19: We are the deadliest virus ever
Spanish Flu: Hold my beer
John Matrixx covid 19 isn't really that deadly. If it was deadly, it wouldn't be that contagious. Kinda hard to spread the virus when the host is dead.
Anime Sekai exactly, that why the Ebola virus didn’t expand as much, too deadly.
Covid-19: I am BEER :)
Bubonic Plague: (scoffs) “Amateurs...”
@@whatevr99 Not a virus.
my great grandmother got spanish flu when she was 3, survived, and died a few years ago aged 101. pretty cool :)
"It took only one single virus, inside a single droplet out of forty thousand ejected by a single sneeze and just like that, you were infected"
* sneezes *
Always love your videos! This one is no exception! Thorough enjoyed!! A very apt time lol.
I recently found out that the actual Chef Boyardee had a super cool life, where he helped people stay fed in the depression, and the allies during the war, and had a restaurant. I think it would be great to see a biographics on him! Please keep it up!
And yet people make fun of his products because they're "low quality"
If the Spanish flu happened today I don't really think people understand what would happen. In 1918 there wasn't world travel like today, so the spread would be far more. Probably close to a quarter billion dead with today's population, with 2-3 billion infected. That would mean many healthcare workers, telecommunications workers, electricians, leaders of industry, Government officials, medicine manufacturers, food suppliers, police etc... Would die. Eventually due to lack of workers. That would mean your electricity would go out, cell phones out, food shortages, people wouldn't be able to get medicine because of lack of production. And governments would go out as well in some countries. With no exaggeration every civilization eventually falls, the Spanish flu today could end modern society as we know it. So while covid is not that.... Thankfully. Respect it and do what the experts say and learn from the past.
bdegrds The mortality rate would still be worse then(1918) than today because all of the troops in close proximity going back and forth on ships and trains and at huge military camps also the fact medicine has come a long way since then to treat it at a simptonmatic level and now we have antibiotics which wasn't about then. 🏴🇬🇧
We have antibiotics today, so it's unlikely any H1N1 flu would be that bad these days. It's estimated that the vast majority of deaths were caused by secondary bacterial pneumonia, not the flu virus itself. The 2009 H1N1 strain would have probably been just as bad then, but it isn't now because modern medicine knows how to deal with it.
@@briebel2684 viruses are not effected by antibiotics. So it would help with 2ndary infections but not the cytokine storms that killed many of the younger victims.
@@briebel2684
Except for viruses that we don't know about that have no vaccine (not antibiotics) you know like Covid19 which also happens to cause ARDS in patients.
With all our modern medicine and technology how are we dealing with Covid19? Quarantines. Lock downs. Face masks.
It's the height of hubris to think we humans have that kind of power.
Humanity managed to kill 10million or so of itself in WW1 across 4 years. Nature managed that in less than half that.
Imagine a virus which had the pathogenicity of the Spanish flu couple with the lethality of something like ebola or anthrax. It would make Spanish flu look like a picnic. Something like that is lurking out there almost certainly.
Covid would likely have similar numbers if we went business as usual.
The message is clear to me, "This too, shall pass."
Stay calm and carry on.
Be carefully and mindful.
No, no, no we must panic, wear masks, stand 2 meters apart, only leave the house for essential journey's and hand over all our civil liberties to make sure everyone is safe. If you dont comply, you'll have to be sent to a re-education camp, sorry.
@@sammylong3704 civil liberties? Like what?
That's the "careful and mindful" part.
I don't want to lose a continent worth of people because some dummies REALLY need to get a fucking haircut.
@@tonyrigby6065 go crawl in a hole. Life goes on whether you are in it or not.
My kids would prefer me and my wife in it.
1:25 - Part 1 - March of the invisible tyrant
1:35 - Chapter 1 - A mysterious origin
5:35 - Chapter 2 - Voices in the 2nd wave
10:05 - Chapter 3 - The last waves
15:40 - Part 2 - Profiling the killer
15:50 - Chapter 1 - One of a kind
18:15 - Chapter 2 - Modus operandi
22:20 - Part 3 - Assessing the damage
22:30 - Chapter 1 - A pale rider
25:15 - Chapter 2 - A tragedy of the unborn
27:25 - Part 4 - Could it happen today ?
This may just be your masterpiece. Extensive research, brilliantly presented with helpful advice even in 2121. Thank you Simon and team.
No my friend, you had it right the first time... you DO have new channels coming out multiple times a week, lmao! I'm not complaining though, I love them all! Especially Blaze! Keep up the great work, and keep Danny on his toes! Lol
And I want to hear more about Sam.
Next: King ferdinand and Queen Marie of romania
No
CG Toe boooooring
@@abrahamthomas7067 do you even know who they are
@@cgt3704 I don't know who they are, so upvote because I come to this channel to find out about people I don't know about.
Although I'd also like to hear about Ceausescu.
A perfectly ethical video to release at this time. A shrewd businessman 😂😂 I’m sure this will go “viral”
Most of my grandmothers family and separately her future husbands, my grandfather’s family, died in the catastrophic Moose Lake fire of 1918. My grandmother then caught the Spanish Flu sometime after that when she was 2 or 3, I think that was the 2nd wave. She survived, obviously since I was born. My grandfather’s mother also caught the Spanish Flu but she died so my grandfather was raised by an older sister.
Obviously, the numbers were padded, seriously though my grandmother was born on 1918 she would have been 102 this June. She did not make the milestone, she passed away this April, not by Covid19, but not making it to a hospital. The Doctors told us if we can try to ride it out and avoid the overcrowded NYC hospital at the time. She survived two major epidemics RIP Palina Marcela
Obviously ?? Ok. Show me your proof or are you just talking out your a$$. 🙄
This was so interesting. My great-great grandmother died in 1918...and she was pregnant at the time. Thank you for the general overview of how the virus works in our body.
This hits different now-a-days.
💜 I love the way you tell stories. Even if it's all facts, your voice makes it better. But then again, I love history!
Have heard many presentations about this -and still you bring new info and new perspectives-many thanks
I have been watching biographics since day 1 and I have to say this was, one of your best episodes. Keep it up!!
Simon should share how he grew that glorious mane.
It is every bearded guy’s dream 🙌🏽
Great content as well. The Black Death and the Spanish Flu have always fascinate me
This guy looks smart, he should make a youtube channel
Enough now
or 50
Who watchin' this in 2020 like hindsight is 20/20.
I'm not
@@SugmaNatsu LOL!
Oooh a time traveller, is it true that aliens built The Pyramids?
@@stefan6347 Nah, they commissioned the Pyramids and we built them :))
I'm not, but still. Yes.
Late to this, sorry. My great-granddad was in the USA army during the 1918 pandemic. He contracted the Spanish flu and lost all his teeth and went bald due to it. He would tell about the number of soldiers in the hospital ward. He said people were dying so fast they couldn’t keep up and didn’t have storage for that number of bodies, so they had to stack them in the ward until they could be taken care of properly.
You may just be the most prolific RUclipsr of this generation.
Thank you for your content Simon
*In Russia,you don't catch coronavirus. Coronavirus catches you*
Raghul 007 I think that’s how all virus work
Don't you mean Soviet Russia?🤣🤣🤣
Yahoo is that you? Are you serious??
Kill it with vodka comrade .
That's not better at all
Ram Ranch really rocks
gachiHYPER
Nooooo
Yeah Shawn!
@@vrapbrap
Yeah 28 US Marines pulling up in black Ford Raptor Trucks
Helicopters landed
Ram Ranch is under siege
Under lock down
My great uncle was at Camp Funston at that time. He died, but not due to the Flu. At that particular time, the First Wave was spreading. However, that didn’t always seem like the most prevalent health concern at the camp. There was a terrible, deadly outbreak of the measles. That’s what took my uncle.
1:32 shout out to the cat wearing a mask with their family 😂
A few years ago I worked for a non-profit in Mississippi. On the property was a family graveyard. The sadist graves were the graves of a woman and her 5 children. The children all died within a month of each other and the mother dying last. I can't imagine the grief the mother felt.
After we have tHe wAr tO eNd aLL WaRs mother nature just flexes and shows us how feeble we really are
Humans: I WiLl fVcKinG dO iT AgAiN
Mother Nature: *_Coronavirus BIATCH!_*
@@stefan6347 and yet we shall still survive.
Draven Ocklost not all of us
Viruses. Nature's raid bomb.
Please consider doing videos on the following people:
1. Dennis Rader
2. Jack London
3. Upton Sinclair
4. Jack Ketchum
5. Jane Austen
6. Anton LaVey
7. Jack's brother, Ash.
@@zeroireland actually, Jack was his father, he went roaming around the world in search for pokemon and died a horrible death killed by a swarm of Beedrils, his wife survives him while being banged by Professor Oak.
"New channels come out a couple of times a week" - this is starting to look like less of a mistake Mr. Whistler and more like your overall aim, lmao.
Yeah, I think someday soon it will be "SimonTube" instead of RUclips. That'd be *awesome*!
The flu affected the life span of those born during the pandemic.
Many patients were left mentally "incompetent" never capable of reaching full consciousness.
Dr Oliver Sachs was a doctor who treated these people and bought some of them back to "full" consciousness after decades in a comatose state called Catatonia lethargica bought on during their bout of Spanish flu.
Robin William's played Sachs in the film Awakenings - the title of Sachs' memoirs of his experiences.
This was so interesting! Thank you Simon. My dad was born in Denmark December 6th 1919. during the Spanish flu epidemic.
"Widespread anti-Chinese sentiment"
Hmmmmm
Its back again
@Geba I doubt it
@@professorrosenstock5026 It seems the racists were racist beforehand. What has definitely increased is anti-Chinese communist party sentiment. There is a difference.
This video was made before the wuhan Kung flu virus was unleashed so not racist to identify the country that its originated in your libtards
China lied
People died
One of the Spanish Influenza victims was my great aunt, Eleanor Jaques, who was about 8 years of age when she died - likely during the first or second waves of the flu.
„The only thing humanity has ever learned from history is that humanity never learned from history“. Sad but oh so true, especially in light of current events… Thank you Simon for this most interesting contribution.
1918: its just a flu
2020: its just a flu
Simon, this is by far the best video I have seen from you. It is in depth and well stated. Congratulations on that, please keep up the great work and yes, I'll continue watching (though I can't stay home since my job I'm happy to have involves travel as a vital thing.)
I'm pleased that you continue to make such wonderful videos.
A doctor at Tarzana Medical Center in Los Angeles said he noticed that the current pandemic is creating a cytokine storm.
The Kansas Flu has a nice ring to it
Nothing like some well researched historical perspective to cut through the present day crap like a well directed laser! Many thanks! This will save lives.
This is propaganda. Obey, submit, comply, live in fear!
Regarding the unborn-it's also probably because the pregnant women died sometime during their pregnancy since most pregnant women WERE in the target age bracket for this particular strain
The countermeasures here are what were put in place at the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic (and also hand-washing, which is an excellent preventative against flu, which is often spread by surfaces and hand, but not that effective against COVID-19). In other words, our first response was to treat it like influenza.
All airborne viral pathogens require the same basic measures of mitigation: social distancing/hand washing/masks. Unlike then however we today have the benefit of antiviral medications and vastly improved medical treatments - as well as a vaccine. Thus the former can help reduce your chances of being exposed so as to be infected to a degree. The latter are what help you once you are infected.
In the end however the goal as always is to prevent exposure and subsequent infection. For that to happen the virus must be cut off from its host to reduce local morbidity. Vaccination is the most effective way to achieve this as you can via mass vaccination trigger an immunological response in large numbers of people very quickly. In the case of Influenza - and now Covid - there is a limit to such mitigation because these viral pathogens are = "zoonotic" - hence they exist in other species. We can not therefore eradicate them. All we can do is to wage an ongoing campaign to limit their spread and hence the adverse impact of their presence in communities. They are a part of the environment now. 🤔
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Halifax made it into a video!!!!!! My hometown!
Also the Halifax Explosion (the largest man-made, pre-nuclear explosion in history) would be a great episode :)
ICU nurse here - well researched and explained. Thank you for being a voice of truth in a sea of idiots spouting whatever conspiracy theory they read on social media 🙄
People do not realize how much worse COVID-19 could be....
It’s terrible that people are dying from this. And I don’t want to come off as insulting those who will pass away from a pandemic.
This reality check could be so, so much worse, though.
This was a break, as terrible as it is to say. Humanity, as a whole, was lucky the repercussions are so light, because we were woefully unprepared, and so many more could have been killed from negligence.
I hope this wake up call acts as a warning for the future. Next time we may not be so “lucky.”
And these are words spoken from someone who may very well be a victim of the disease I am writing about. COVID 19. I could still fall victim to it.... still die. It’s scary to think about.
But I’ll hope for the best and a better future.
Thanks for reading my ramblings.
You know the sad thing unfortunately? There will still be people who will continue to deny the facts one way or another as long as they can fit in their political narrative. That's someone's family member and not only that, they can go on with their ignorant lives and get someone else infected and not even bat an eye at it. Completely blind to reality.
@@itsasquid i had to bite my tongue yesterday when a customer went off about having to wear a mask "because of this fake disease". In my own family, my cousin's sister-in-law died of COVID19 last month. We lost a great uncle (my grandmother's last remaining sibling) a week later. On June 29th, a friend posted that she and her fiance were both diagnosed with coronavirus. A week later, she was dead and he was in a coma, and he died a few days ago. So, that's 4 people in my sphere dead in the last month. If I'm not at work and someone wants to have a discussion about this "fake disease", imma punch them right in the throat.
It also boggles my mind that people can talk about the death rate being much smaller than x,y, or z but we are only a few months in. The pandemic of 1918 lasted for over 4 years, we don’t know how bad COVID could be yet. We are coming into a second wave. Listen to science, understand the scientific method, and stay safe everyone.
Wait for it ,a second wave ?
with all the videos made about this pandemic still i managed to find new and interesting information in yours...I tip my hat