My grandmother was 12 years old in 1918,one of 14 children on a farm near Waldrip,Texas.She was one of the last of the kids to get sick,she cared for the others before that,and she said that hardly a day went by that a wagon didn't pass in front of their farm with a coffin headed toward the local cemetary.She lived another 86 years,passing in 2004 at the age of 98
@@geraldinewarren9279 I remember her saying something about damp cloths in pans of cool water for fever compresses.I don't recall her mentioning any medicines or even a doctor being summoned.With 14 kids I'm sure they had somewhat ample food staples.She talked about how her dad,my great-grandad,liked biscuits and butter with sorghum syrup.Also a lot of baptist prayers going up from that farmhouse.Whatever was done,they all survived
My father got the Spanish flu in 1919 when he was stationed in San Diego, WW1. ( He also signed up for WW2). His whole platoon died. He was the only one who left the tent and went home. His father had died. He got it again when he got home and was quarantined to the porch. He told me plenty about it and swore that he never got the flu again because he always put Vicks in his nostrils (which has camphor in it). After washing our dishes, he always poured boiling water over them as a final rinse. I think it affected his whole 99= years with PTSD that everyone died but himself in that tent.
I'm very much younger than you but you triggered a memory I had forgotten until now. My great grandmother who lived to be 104 done the same with the hot boiling water. Thank you for allowing me that memory
Did he live to be 99? I wonder if is because: "he always put Vicks in his nostrils (which has camphor in it). After washing our dishes, he always poured boiling water over them as a final rinse."
That's so sad , but a miracle that he then enjoyed longevity too. We use Vick, but also ensure we're well armed with virus fighting meds and natural remedies. People shoukd exploit the internet, therefore superb online physios who'll teach how to clear the lungs of muck. Even the common cold can turn nasty, its the lungs you must nurse and study, not forgetting mobility and good fresh air.
I’m 65, and I can tell you most people I met from that generation, never talked about it. I only knew one man who admitted to having had it. He was a very good friend of mine when he was alive, and had been a veteran of WWI where he caught it two weeks after the war ended. Said he spent a month in an army hospital in Paris recovering from it. He was 28 at that time, and lived to be 95.
I read a book called Dreamers of the Day I picked up in a Dollar General store for 3 or 5 dollars. It is a historical novel about a woman who was in Cairo, Egypt during the peace talks when Churchill was only Secretary of State and under death threats. She was in Egypt at that time because her entire family had been killed by the Spanish Flu and she was the only one to survive it and inherited money. The death that was everywhere scared them and scarred them all. The roaring 20's came out of everyone dies so we may as well drink live like there is no tomorrow.. a period of prosperity where everyone dabbled in the stock market because you could buy stock on a margin if you couldn't afford the price, contributing to the collapse. FDR stopped that. The book is a good read. My grandmother talked about everything and told stories of her life. She was born in 1901 and never even mentioned the Spanish Flu. I think it was a close companion to a generation and something they couldn't bring themselves to revisit.
I'm in my 70's and my mom spoke of THE 1918 Influenza quite a bit... because her infant brother Eric died of it. He is burried in Wales. That effected my mother deeply. When I became somewhat of a 'prepper' about 7 years ago.. my main focus was on Pandemics. I was able to gather up a few REAL N95 MASKS... so when I had to fly home it is possible that that saved my life. Thanks Uncle Eric! 😊
@Julie Sprik I could not agree more Julie. Those who are ABLE to prepare ahead of a crisis become a real asset to their community. The sooner we Realize that our PURPOSE is TO SERVE... the better off we are.
@@faithrada It’s gets more haunting at night when I think of the grief I’m going through with the Spanish Flu and the cases on my grief are surging up once again
My grandfather lost his mother in the first wave and his father, an uncle, and a cousin in the second wave. He was taken in by an aunt in Florida as a young child. Later on he joined and worked in the CCC camps. Life was hard back then. We are blessed to have treatments so soon after the arrival of Covid.
It hasn't been done well in at least 45 years. I've learned more on my own as an adult due an interest in history and ancestry, than I ever learned in school.
@@luckyRwe Yes, it's been about that long. I was a teacher and watched it happen. Now history classes have been replaced by classes in Social Justice and Globalism and very skewed lessons in US history. Keep reading on your own. Go to original sources. Blessings.
Especially black history. It’s a shame that as a white male I’ve learned more about black history from my black friends than from the entire 7 years of college!
My family were directly impacted by this pandemic. My Grandmother died at 26 years old in Los Angeles in 1918 from Pandemic. My Dad at 2 survived but not having his mother growing up was difficult. They were Norwegians, so his Aunt and Uncle took him in their home while his Dad went to work in Oregon for the railroad.
@@busterbiloxi3833 greets from my Stuart side; I think Mary Queen of Scots' baby James I/VI was Italian, Rizzio's baby, the one they found walled up in Edinburgh castle.
First let me say that I enjoyed this video. Both of my parents came from this era but had two different lives. My Dad was born in 1907 and from the age of 10 was pulled out of school to work and start supporting the family. On the other hand my Mom was born in 1918 and had a sheltered life. She went to live with her Grandparents and graduated from high school. She became a beautician and had her shop in the front room of her Grandparents house. Dad went into the navy in 1924 and stayed there until 1946 right before my birth in 1947. He married my mom in 1941. Dad was in Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941 when the Japanese attacked and his ship was hit by a torpedo in the engine room and he was the Chief Engineer at the time. He had not started his shift yet so he wasn't in the engine room yet and was not hurt. Mom had no idea what was going on with my Dad because there was little to no communication because we were at war. 3 times mom was notified that my Dad had been killed. She told me that by the 3rd time she knew he was okay. They lived through all of that and had Dad not gotten the asbestos cancer I have no doubt he would have lived to 100 or longer. Mom got pneumonia and while in the hospital got the deadliest staph infection (MRSA) that at the age of 97 was a death sentence for her. She died just after her 98th birthday. I feel fortunate to have had parents that lived through some of the worst times of our nation. The stories they have told me are priceless.
@@rosiew1952, it is true because they didn't count the people that died from heart attack, stroke, car crashes, over dose, shootings or any of the rest of the normal things people die from. My brother died because the pig value in his heart finally stopped and they marked it down as this nasty virus. When his son treated them with a long court that would drag the hospital and all the Doctor's that had anything to do with it they changed their minds. I think it will be interesting to see how many people died of all the regular things that kill people every year for the last 2 years and compare them to the previous few years. I think you will finding them tap dancing around that subject.
I'm surprised to hear that it was your parents who went through this pandemic, while most other comments are about their great-grandparents. If you don't mind me asking, how old are you now?
@@bartolomeucarvalho5273, Not a problem. The way my family developed was that Dad was in the Navy and an officer so he was at sea most of the time. As far as I have been able to figure it out, every time Dad would come home Mom would get pregnant. There were 4 girls but for some reason Mom had something in her genetic makeup that the female child was always born either dead or died shortly after. So there were only the 5 boys. I was the last one so my family always treated me as the baby. Dad was 40 years old when I was born and that was in 1947. I am now 74 years old. I have had a very full life and have friends all over the world. I have traveled the world, mostly in North America and a little down to south America and Western Europe. I now live in Thailand and am retracing some of my Dad's steps. Before the virus hit us I had been to Australia twice and scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef. Been to Singapore 4 times, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and all over Thailand of course. I had planned to go to China and Tibet in 2020 but that nasty virus put a stop to that. I don't know if I ever will do China now. At this moment I am in the Bangkok Hospital because of some health issues but doing fine. They tell me I will be going home tomorrow. We'll see if that happens. So sorry about the long answer but it's 03:15 in the morning and I can't go to sleep. I'll sleep when I get home. I'm also somewhat of a history guy so I like to give people the background of why things are the way they are. It makes the answer a little more interesting. Hope that answered your question. Lol
@@theadventuresofbrockinthai4325 thank you for your detailed explanation. I am somewhat of a history enthusiast myself, so I certainly appreciate your detailed reply. I love your story, you have lived a beautiful life so far. And it was very funny to hear a 74 year old use 'lol'.
My great grandmother was about 8 months pregnant when she became ill and both died from the Spanish flu. It absolutely changed my family dynamics as my great grandfather modified his vehicle, packed it up with supplies and his surviving 5 young daughters and did field work along the way until they made it to California from nearby Kansas City Missouri. It was an epic journey according to my grandmother and her sisters. They also didn't have the luxury of grieving either. At any rate, these types of events have the capability of completely changing and altering lifestyles.
None of my schooling taught any of this..no wonder we repeat the same problems over and over.Time to grab hold of our Education systems and shake them up don't you Think!!
I knew about this. They taught it in history. It was again brought up in Science. I also know there was a large area in a local cemetery where all the death dates are in the same time frame. Then there was speaking with elderly people. There's documentaries galore. It's on you to learn and research the world we live in.
@@johndoe-wv3nu My Great grandfather never mentioned anything about it and he loved to tell us little children all the stories of his life.He was a white man adopted by Black bahamian family.married a bahamian women.He was a Big tall man with the Bluest eyes and White hair.If he were alive today I would have my treasure back How I loved that man.
@@zentamm I don’t even think that it was re written. The Spanish flu wasn’t even recorded in history, except in passing, as a normal event. But books about it started to appear over fifty years after the “event”. And what we call the Spanish flu, was in fact three events. It was the second of those that was decidedly dodgy.
@@djsimonrossprice9400 What do you want me to explain ? It would take me forever to completely explain. The fact that it disappeared from history is self evident. Try to find any detail about the spanish flu in history books, memoirs, or biographies of those at the centre of it. Try to find real data. We obviously had press censorship during the war, so the press had to follow the government line. And what do we see in Google Images from 1918 ? A whole load of staged photos of people wearing masks, or hundreds of people in hospital. The Spanish flu was three separate events - The main event was the one that occurred around armistice day, when mysteriously, healthy military age people started dropping dead. They even had successful vaccines for the “ Spanish flu” , but we are not told this.
My great grand-mother and great-grandfather both died of the Spanish flu, six months apart from each other. Their orphaned five children were sent to neighbors and relatives to be raised. One of those orphaned five children grew up to be my dear grandmother. She died in her 89th year of life, in 1990. She once told me, in 1976, on her 75th birthday, that she couldn't believe she was still alive to be so old. Little could she know, her life would continue on another 14 years to Rest in Peace three weeks before her 89th birthday. Her son, my father, lived to the same age. I wonder if I will live that long too.
My Grandfather took all his children up into northern Canada and lived in the thick woods/all seasons/hunting for food/ sleeping in open 1 1/2 yrs then returned to Niagara Falls ...all healthy. Thank God.
Maybe your grand-father carried a weak gene that would have been naturally 'un-selected' by the virus. By preventing natural un-selection, your grandfather's defective genes were propagated. God may not be as happy about this as you think :)
@@joeschmoe21 Good joke! LOL! Seriously, his grandfather displayed exactly the kind of survival instinct that has allowed the human race to survive no matter what was thrown at us!
Its not the response. It’s the imbecilic politics that got in the way of being able to respond. The leftists tied up government because they were more interested in power and control than serving the people
@@bucky4047 - Yes, Buckster. Because "The Left" is in the White House making all those decisions. "The Left" are the ones standing in front of those cameras (that wicked, awful "media") feeding them prop-a-ganda day in and day out, preening for The Base, questioning why HE'S not as popular as The Virus Doctor. Whining and whining and WHINING about how he's not "very well liked", as we head for 165,000 DEAD. Yep. It's "The Left", Demon Sperm. Go sit down and read a book.
Yep...history proves, if you don't learn from mistskes, you are destined to repeat them....although in this case not exactly. I say this because when the medical community got more info on this virus they (having possibly known of the Spanish flu) told us exactly what to do...they did their job. The problem we today had was a political divide...that is really we had NO LEADERSHIP. The medical community was NOT allowed to lead the country, the "president" put his vice president in charge. He silenced (hand strapped) the medical people. They felt their hand were tied between the president wanting to protect his reelection prospects, and telling the pubic the truth. We do not seem as if we are going to get a handle on this thing any time soon....people refuse to comply. Yes (we learned nothing), because we the people seem to be very well, not just ignorant, but stupid.
Least educated and most aided by this video will be the least likely to watch or believe this history lesson! Kansas flu ! Because people from Kansas (like Dorothy in Wizard of OZ) Would Trump supporters build a wall of hate against Kansans ? They were quick to disrespect Chinese Americans
@holly downs. No one in America faulted Chinese Americans for the Chinese government’s lack of care and action when handling the unhygienic wet markets, (if that’s even where this virus came from). China is responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars.
Unfortunately, people today think we live in history pretending slavery was last year and Jim Crow still exists when actually there is almost no racism. History is a story that happens to be true, you can learn something from it but it has no impact on the present since we don't have time machines.
@@mamabeancoleman5811 The left is changing history and pretending we are living in the history they make up. History is a story we can learn from that happened to be true, nothing more, nothing less.
This is very well done. In end, at about the 31st minute, you mentioned the depression in the US Midwestern farm belt. I believe that was caused more by an unfortunate drought that extended over several growing seasons in the late 1920s. Also, the mass production of the automobile meant that crops like hay and oats that had been used to feed horses were no longer needed. When farmers all converted at the same time to planting other crops like corn and soybeans, it caused grain prices to collapse.
It also had sources in the economic collapses of the heavy debts in Germany and other European countries as a result of WW1 and over speculation in stocks with no safe guards back then,etc.
I’d have to Fact check the no longer needing grain and hay and not sure how well grain and hay grew in the mid twenty’s don’t know if anyone could buy a car in 29 ..But yeah Just think New York stock exchange needs to explain what,where and when did they lose everyone’s money..
Great storytelling--compelling and true! My grandma was a nurse in Philadelphia during th3 1918 flu pandemic, and she left notes for us on how to survive as she said the new aeroplanes would make sure that this happened again.
Thank you for this very informative documentary. The Spanish flu had 4 waves and then disappeared... It's now January 2022 and we are in the middle of the 4th wave... since "history tends to repeat itself" we should now see progress. You even stated during their 4th wave, it was widely spreading but symptoms were very mild as well... just like right now with the 4th wave of Omicron
Yes! I know several people who got the virus recently including family. The symptoms were mild and they recovered within a week or less. The current administration doesn't want to admit it is getting better and the MSM will never report it.
History is repeating itself. At the end, fascism took over in Germany, but it appears that America will be the fascist country instead of Germany. Too bad we can't learn from the past.
Yes! Several of my students are infected and it’s widely being spread right now but symptoms are very very mild! Many had mild cold like symptoms! My staff that has been infected is the same! Reporting fatigue, congestion minor cough. NONE have had a fever! I am really hoping you’re right! It’s looking hopeful so far.
It only dawned on me a little while ago that this happened in the year WW1 ended meaning that people must have felt like the dark days were never going to end. I'm honestly not sure how people coped with all of this.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I wasn’t aware of that date. I think I’ll celebrate this year. I sometimes worry that they might try to restrict alcohol again. It seems that history really is repeating itself.
@@catcrane6217 They won't repeal alcohol. It's how the public is medicated. Diverted. As long as people can buy beer on Friday night, have a cell phone and service, and cable TV they don't pay attention to what's really going on at the different governmental levels. It's our redirection.
I want to comment on your production as it’s done so professionally, your narration and editing is impeccable. Great documentary, maybe one day I’ll see your name on Netflix.
The fascism mirror is scary. I’m hoping we make it a few more months. Imagine if this happened in 2017? 45 and his henchmen will have had 4 years to entrench his lies and misinformation.
This man's voice...and the pace of his story telling is perfect as he explains the Spanish Flu epidemic in the US. There is an art to making history come alive!
At 13:10 we hear that a mutation or new strain formed and it attacked all ages. This is false, new strains are ALWAYS less of a problem because original immunity still works well. It is a disadvantage for a virus to kill the host, hence for anyone who doesn't have immunity, new strains produce milder symptoms than the original.
This is actually eery to watch nearly 2 years into this century’s pandemic. Eery is actually an understatement. The vocabulary is the same, the media and the government downplaying certain aspects of what is going on. History repeats itself always.
"As a result of poor advice and overconfidence many American cities experienced tragic spikes in their death rates. Late implementation of social distancing measures spelled death for a great deal of citizens living in urban centers..." "...Many people simply refused to wear face masks or obey social distancing rules." 21:42 - 23:09 Gee, any of this sound familiar?
I don't know what you're talking about Az on lock down since early April. Now wearing masks every where. If you test # go up but why don't they say how many SURVIVE
NJ had required masks, since late March. We still do. We have between 250-500 new cases reported per day. It’s been steady, since early June even though the beaches are open. Mask wearing is hugely important in controlling spread, and saving lives.
@@alanaadams7440 Be glad you live where you do. I'm not so fortunate to live in a part of America that has followed suit. Your experience is not everyone's experience and many parts of this country are not doing so well.
And even when they did take precautions....they still had 4 waves! Viruses are efficient and highly evolved little bugs......far older and more successful than humans. You'll never be safe..........because they've evolved to infect you when you do the things you need to do to live. Just like a fish gets hooked trying to eat food and stay alive. You must take your masks off, you must touch things and you're dependent on other humans who are always going to spread disease. Even if you do mitigate, as some places back then did............when you return back to life.....and you will return back to normal life..........it will be waiting for you. The spanish flu still exists today. Only Herd immunity, improvements in general human health and medical technology have made things any different. Masks make you feel safe but they can't overcome human nature. Human nature is what the virus is counting on.
not really. the former killed 2.5% of the world population, the latter has killed 0.008% of the world population. covid's response and mass media-caused panic is worse than covid.
levitating octahedron why isn’t anyone talking about the mutations of the virus? That’s the problem the longer it goes unchecked and unchallenged it will continue to get more and more virulent. That’s what happened 100+ years ago and it will happen again. Humanity is loathe to change learn or make quick adaptations never mind learn from history the average American cannot read above 5th grade it is a complete wonder more aren’t dead already. I suspect we will find out in the years to come the total number of dead is significantly higher than they currently report in order to not cause panic
Some people do years of study comparing versions to understand a time period, but you no hoh ho , you pick the first history book near you and you suddenly have all the answers! Lmoa! Thanks for this basic and thoughtless retranscription work
Ecclesiastes 1:9 King James Version 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
@Binnaz Husain societies with legal abortion, liberal sex ed and access to birth control have fewer abortions than those where abortion is criminalized
My maternal grandmother and great-grandmother died within one week during November 1918. My mother was only six years old. Her father was left with seven children, one only a couple of months old. He rather quickly married a woman with six children of her own. Needless to say, my mother’s life was not an easy one. However, she persevered and I miss her so much.
The world IS as the powerful want it to be. Status quo is what they want. Education makes the humans wake up and speak up, then blow the whistle and become ostracised by narcs for rattling the chains of the poorly paid. Unite People to bring in Democracy!
By the second wave of the flu, my grandmother had a six month old baby (my father) and she was pregnant again. I wish I had been able to ask her about her experiences.
My grandfather’s first wife died of the Spanish flu. They lived in Philadelphia. He later met my grandmother and married her & had my Dad & his brothers.
Wonderful narration Pete. We can all learn so much from this history lesson. I’m sharing with my family and friends. Stay safe everyone - be kind and understanding. We are all in this together. 🙏 🇺🇸 ❤️
My Great grandmother had just had another baby, her and the baby were both taken by the flu. My Grandmother was three, with an older brother and sister. All three living children had to be farmed out to other families but they always stayed in touch with each other. They were from Argona Kansas.
How sad. My grandparents were alive during this too, but they never talked about it; I have no idea what happened. Except that my grandmother was pregnant with my father, around this time. And in Philadelphia, too! How scary.
Pregnant women and new mothers were hit especially hard. I met a woman born into a house with everyone ill with flu. She was premature because of the flu. Nobody expected her to survive but the exhausted doctor told the nurse to put the baby in a box in the warm (not hot) oven and if she was still alive in the morning, feed her. I don't recall who she said raised her. Among my relatives was a pregnant woman who died with her child, leaving three children and a heart-broken husband behind. (He was very emotional due to his mother dying when pregnant, not from the flu, when he was a small boy leaving three children and a heart-broken husband behind. That is an ugly way for history to repeat itself.)
It’s absolutely criminal that around 50% of the history I’ve learned, I’ve learned out side of school. My history textbook had ONE PARAGRAPH on all the Native America tribes and hardly touched on the trail of tears. Never mind teaching about the Spanish flu
It would be great if public education would improve and become full spectrum, but it reflects our society. It is most important that the individual takes their own education into their own hands. There is basically unlimited knowledge available to nearly anyone on earth now.
In the pandemic of 1918 the Spanish Flu killed an estimated 50 million people in the world, in the United States the figure is 675,000 deaths, the majority of those deaths occurred in the first six weeks of the pandemic. according to current data in timing from when Covid 19 first showed up in China until now a full 9 months later worldwide there have been 23, 000,000 infections and less than 2,000,000 deaths with 15,000,000 recovered, and that is world-wide, this is not the same as the first pandemic, while I do believe the virus is real, I know for a fact the death numbers in the USA and also the positive tests are artificially inflated examples include persons who died of natural causes either from terminal illnesses in hospice or car or even industrial accidents and CV 19 was put on their death certificates. Also personally know people who "tested" positive were never I'll the whole time in quarantine not even with a sniffle. People here also called into testing sites to get an appointment to test, but when the line was too long left without the test, a few days later they were notified they had CV 19 . Doctors sent in blank swabs without using them and they came back positive, all of this and the numbers are no where close to matching the pandemic of 1918.
@@jimbo43ohara51 Napoleon invaded Russia in September (you might as well say Winter).Hitler also be invaded late in the year. Random!? No, I think not .
My grandmother was 16 when she got it. She was treated with kerosene on a sugar cube because there was no cure. She lived to be ninety, but had lung damage her whole life.
Awesome! This video needs to be seen by everyone: it sheds such a light on current events and what might come next, because we are replaying exactly what happened in 1918-1920 - from the traits of the virus itself to the chaotic, inconsistent management on the part of government, to the reaction of the general population. It's chilling, and unpardonable, that this country is just as ignorant and inept as it was 100 years ago, even though we have a roadmap of what to do and what not to do from the 1918 event. Thank you for this video - will share!
It's not exactly the same. We didn't have a million people in the sky at any given moment in 1918. Widespread air travel is making this thing much worse than it would have been otherwise.
One of my Great Grandfathers was a doctor in WW I. He died of the misnamed Spanish Flu in 1920. My Great Grandmother must have talked about it a lot because our mother talked about it.
my 8 yr old grandpa kept his whole family of five alive in Flatbush Brooklyn. He was always known as a man of respect after that. RIP John Mazziotti. I think of you when COVID 19 gets tough.
You are assuming that is a good thing! Maybe your grandmother had weak genes, and did not get naturally 'un-selected', resulting in her genes being propagated. :)
You do exceptional work History Time. My grandfather had the Spanish flu in Canada at 17....scarred his lungs terribly. I had the Swine flu in 1976 and lost two and a half months. This is real, and this documentary is excellent 👏
I had a rare SMA infection which i must’ve caught in Nevil Hall hospital because i started feeling very full and I feared it could have been cancer and I threw up for 79 hours straight, even my beloved Woody.EXE saw this and I collapsed in front of him, that’s when he rushed me to hospital because my hands were getting clinched up and all I heard was him panicking like hell. I woken up a day later to find him at my bedside wondering what the heck just happened and that’s when I had the SMA diagnosis the following morning, I was stunned. I was put on a TPN feed pick line which fed me from my vains to the heart to get my strength back and struggled massively because I was panicking every time food was put in front of me without warning and I’ve never ever witnessed Woody.EXE going full power until then like wow, he was proper angry at them because he was very stressed. 3 weeks went past and I was discharged from the hospital after 4 weeks of treatment and absolute hell. Then 9 months later, I caught COVID and beat it
But then this was how my grief randomly came one night a year ago but my dog was dying that time and I was over worrying about her. I’m still glad my grief came at perfect timing
JerseyMark No Covid 19 is fake, Corona virus is the common cold which are always slightly different strains they say and Dogs and Farm Animals get vaccinated against it and people that get the Flu shot get vaccinated against it as Corona is one of the deleted influenzas in it.
It is interesting what our state governments want us to learn. There is so much that we weren’t taught that is really important to learn. They like to keep people uneducated, it works well when those students hit the polls.
@@redangrybird7564 teachers have to follow a curriculum and it would probably take an entire lecture or two which could cut into the time. It's good for STEM classes, but enforced curriculums in history classes leads to omitting a lot of important events and narratives due to certain states writing most of the textbooks.
I didn't learn about this in school either. If it was even mentioned, it was very briefly, and only brushed over. I actually learned about it a few years back, when I got curious, and started researching the worst pandemics in human history. I had no idea that there had been one so recently.
My grandfather had lifelong encephalitis which was a long term after effect of the Spanish flu. Many people suffered this disease as a follow on from that pandemic. The type of Encephalitis made these people suffer extreme headaches, fits, periods of catatonic apathy. It limited his ability to earn a living. So it’s not all as simple as once we get through it everyone who doesn’t die bounces back to a better life and society. We don’t know what the long term effects of COVID will be. In Australia our government has decided that now we have a highly vaccinated population that Omicron should be let rip. It’s an experiment that may have decades long impacts.
My great grandmother died from the Spanish Flu. I remember as a little girl hearing about this and thinking that could never happen now. Little did I know.....
The parallels between then and now are striking, medically, economically and politically. When people start complaining about how long it's taking to get thru covid, I always reply with "the Spanish Flu took three years, just plan for it".
Sr i am 67 and i was 34 when my husband and i flying from NJ to Florida to go in a cruise .to several island.the fly was pack the cruise was pack.my husband who was medical radiology came back rely sick.the doctor said he as in contact who have skin warm.in the fly or any of any place where people don't even now they have that contagious dices.ausid USA .that was the only vacation we go to other countries because like the doctor said at that time other countries have illness America don't even now.and the travel business don't goin to give that information.and here we are.33 years later.
I do. I had that as a kid . I got very sick but recovered. Also had 2009 swine flu got very sick but again recovered. Struck again me and my daughter both caught covid19 from her work . Got very sick for several weeks at home but recovered. I count my lucky stars so to speak
@@kathleengivant-taylor2277 Geez! That's not the hat trick you want. Glad you're ok...I was six when my parents were so sick...it was pretty scary. I had to bring them food and drink in bed for a couple of days.
@@kathleengivant-taylor2277 18 years ago, I survived my brain issues and got out of hospital in October 2002. I was honestly so ill that I could’ve died
Excellent documentary. Although my Grandfather was Mustard-gassed in the trenches in France he survived and worked as a mechanic at a coalmine-lift afterwards but I never heard of Spanish 'flu until Covid came along.
Very fortunate. This other video explains that the flu virus sequence can be traced to specific animals ®ions & time. The guy said that people around 1880- 1915 had been minimally subjected to these flu virus. People born after these years weren't. And that's why the 20-30 y.o. were slammed. Because they were without immunity type exposure. They tracked the H1 and N3 similar sequences. Amazing.
A virus is part of our natural evolution. Mother nature is cruel but effective. Science says we evolved from apes to humans via natural selection, with many such natural un-selection events. Religious fanatics do not believe in science, and assume that humanity is not part of nature. The real sad thing is that humanity is still not learning the big lesson, that humankind is subject to the same evolutionary processes as all other life on the planet.
I went to public school in California in the 70's and it was never taught. I doubt it is still being included in History books. Why was it left out of books?
@@annettemorley744 I was so dissapointed COVID hit quite fast. Just as I was about to sail for a few years throughout Europe to see as much as I can, Fjords, the Mediterranean in summer and the UK for it's famous fish and chips. Now I wait patiently. Thankfully Australia has beautiful and pristine waterways, but even crossing State borders is tricky. I think it is strange too, take care.
My father’s mother died in 1919. From what was told to me was she was well in the morning sick in the afternoon and dead by night. She left behind 6 children and her husband.
You are respected. Thank you. I have sent solutions for everything, but D.C. does not care. They owe the Americans $12,000.00 so far to catch up on rent, and to get a new place, if evicted. They can train everyone to WORK online, after $2k monthly training, and then 2K income monthly, since the evil ones took away our incomes. The virus is a Fake to steal trillions of dollars, and to kill people by murder, starvation and being homeless. Do not send your children to school, but recorded lessons by subject, no longer than 15-30 minutes, and played at anytime. Homework should be limited and given up to 30 days to finish. Children and adults need to interact, and security should be hired to stop the drive by murders! Everyone needs to be armed and free training, or you will be targeted anywhere by age and gender by heartless and evil demons. My suggestions are deleted, but i beg everyone to demand what I have suggested , and add what you want. If you are not a part of the SOLUTION, then you are part of the PROBLEM! Life can be over in an instant, and your poverty, riches, or status will not save you. ALL LIVES MATTER!!!!!.
As a nurse, I have seen the bodies stored in refrigerated trucks. I have seen those infected by a so-called fake virus and was with more people than I care to remember as they took their last breath.
My grandfather had it and survived. He was in WW1 (European theatre) at the time. He helped the Doctor on the ship coming back to the States. And wrote the last will and testament for the men that were dying. They had no choice but to bury them at sea.
Well, if you were from 2020 you'd have a pretty strong resistance to H1N1, if you'd been getting flu shots. The other way around, 1918 to 2020, you'd be super dead.
Not sure if people realize the irony of 2.1 thousand people who viewed this - gave it a thumbs down. Why would they watch a history documentary and choose to dislike it? I really don't get it and may be the reason we are where we are today.
@@commander-wulf3076 Absolutely. To prove or disprove the existence of anything from history, I would suggest to start from history books, reference books, dictionaries, biographies memoirs, or encyclopaedias. You won’t find any reference to the spanish flu as an event in any of those, until recently. In fact you will not find any book about the Spanish flu at all within fifty years of the “event”. All the staged images that we see of the Spanish flu are highly controlled images approved by the authorities, so everything in them was EXACTLY what they wanted to be seen. What is referred to as “Spanish flu” was influenza, which covered a number of different illnesses, and the vaccines that they used to treat the Spanish flu were all regarded as being successful at the time.
your life and mind are controlled by television and social media. spanish flu killed 2.5% of the world population. covid's killed only 0.008%. you are mocking the victims of spanish flu by saying dumb socially pandering shit like "haunting paralells looool". learn to think for yourself.
@@levitatingoctahedron922 Your numbers are way off - what's Your source? Furthermore, Mr Richard Wogsland isn't mocking or laughing at anyone - he's merely making an observation... 💙💛🌹💜🍎🇺🇸
@@lena-mariaglouis-charles7036 no they aren't. my source is basic fucking middle school math. 677k people have died from covid as of today. there are 7.8 billion people on the planet. 677k is 0.008679487179487178% of 7.8 billion. I swear to god. stop letting television and social media turn you into a tool.
@@levitatingoctahedron922 I was raised to be a critical thinker - and to be respectful towards others. You obviously equal being a nasty bully with being "right" - and I still don't agree with Your "calculation"...
The haunting parallel may not be in the number of deaths but similar in the handling and misinformation campaigns that allowed individuals to Believe it was just the flu. No we thinks it's just a hoax.
Thank you. I've watched other videos on the,1918 flu, but I learned more from yours. Human behavior has not changed as much as I hoped. We have more knowledge, but still there are those who dont listen .
I remember watching this in late August and that’s how my Spanish flu grief started. And a month later on my friends horse Honey’s death anniversary my grief cases surged rapidly then just started panicking randomly I even tried to reveal this to Mum but I sadly wasn’t brave enough. On September 21st 2020, my dog was put down and I was crying more because my grief was doing it this time, and finally told Mum that following emotional night and she understands what I was going through that night. Revealing it to her was one of the bravest things I’ve done because I couldn’t afford to be overwhelmed but I was 4 times now
And this is where my mystery grief came from as my dog of 11 years was dying last year. I still miss her but I have a new dog Rosie we got her almost a year ago
The scary thing about the current pandemic is that we are not even in the flu season yet. And local leaders are hell bent on opening schools. As a school bus driver, I think having a bunch of kids on a school bus for over an hour to and from before this virus subsides and a vaccine is implemented is a death sentence for teachers, maintenance, bus drivers, and students. The insanity of mankind is never ending.
@OnWingsOfHope wrong. You really think senile creepy Joe Biden is the answer right now? The democrats can't even keep a bunch of brats from tearing their cities down. Biden doesn't even know where the he'll he is most of the time. Pelosi and Biden belong in a rest home. Democrats should be refunded and Trump is the only one who can bring us back out of this mess. By the way, I used to be a Democrat before you all became delusional communists.
I appreciate all the research that had to go into this. Makes me think that my grandfather who died in 1918 might have been a victim of the SF, especially since my father had just returned from WWI.
When bodies are pilling up faster than they can be buried, then you leaders know that you should have acted earlier and that now only drastic measures can alleviate a bit.
I can't imagine living through those times. Sadly, now, viruses are leveraged for political gain moreso than in the past, regardless of how serious the infection. If people don't start thinking for themselves, and living healthy lives, we will end up with less freedom and quite a bit of regression.
@@tnpollypol1853 The comment inferred that viruses are increasingly used to gain political power and minimize freedom. Once again I say that's garbage. Viruses care little about political gain and repressed freedom. The only way to prevent a voracious virus like Covid and its variants is to starve the pathogens. Short sharp lock downs are not political or an attempt to deny freedom. They are a major defence against an unseen enemy. Mass vaccination is essential to prevent more insidious variants. Leading healthy lives will not prevent a pandemic.
I was going to quote that but you beat me to it. Next will be another financial collapse worldwide. Covid 19 is the trigger event . Take care , do not overspend pay down debts if possible.
what should be different and why wasnt it? those at the top making big decisions know far more than we do and have access to the best academics alive. for whatever reason, this is the course of action that suits them.
@@bellywooton we have a tool this time , to combat it ...a vaccine
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It’s weird to think that all of us that are alive today, are only here because our assessors were strong enough to survive all those pandemics and plagues.
The spanish went to Mexico in the 1700's with a cold. Killed hundred's of thousands. The plague killed millions in Europe. Pandemics will always be around. Goes in cirlces! We're in one now but we'll get through it
What about the 12 million Africans that were taken from the shores of Africa and brought to the New World in the bottom of slave ships what about their ancestors who are still alive today
Absolutely mesmerizing…my Grandma was born 1900, she lived through this Spanish Flu and two WWars. I missed the boat in not documenting her experiences of life through all of this. She even survived cancer and died at 98. I miss her terribly she was a good woman and from the Penna Dutch background. RIP🇺🇸🥰🌹🙏❤️😢we need to realize History repeats and we’ve got to pull up our boot straps and change the world, especially for our grandchildren those who follow us. Make it a better place for humans and animals.
Imagine people from that year 1919 thinking that it was the end of the world. But here we are, the living proof that there is tomorrow. Somehow they succeeded.
I’m thinking that in 2020. I’m worried about the second wave getting worse and my Spanish flu grief going way up it’s happened for the past 2 weeks since my grief started
My grandmother was 12 years old in 1918,one of 14 children on a farm near Waldrip,Texas.She was one of the last of the kids to get sick,she cared for the others before that,and she said that hardly a day went by that a wagon didn't pass in front of their farm with a coffin headed toward the local cemetary.She lived another 86 years,passing in 2004 at the age of 98
What was her routine in taking care of them. Did she say?🦋
@@geraldinewarren9279 I remember her saying something about damp cloths in pans of cool water for fever compresses.I don't recall her mentioning any medicines or even a doctor being summoned.With 14 kids I'm sure they had somewhat ample food staples.She talked about how her dad,my great-grandad,liked biscuits and butter with sorghum syrup.Also a lot of baptist prayers going up from that farmhouse.Whatever was done,they all survived
@@bubbastill2040 , beautiful 🦋🙏🏽🦋
Wow.
Dam, shoulda asked her about that spanish flu vaccine that killed off the younger generation. Im sure she knew about the experimental shot in the 20s
My father got the Spanish flu in 1919 when he was stationed in San Diego, WW1. ( He also signed up for WW2).
His whole platoon died. He was the only one who left the tent and went home. His father had died. He got it again when he got home and was quarantined to the porch. He told me plenty about it and swore that he never got the flu again because he always put Vicks in his nostrils (which has camphor in it). After washing our dishes, he always poured boiling water over them as a final rinse. I think it affected his whole 99= years with PTSD that everyone died but himself in that tent.
I'm very much younger than you but you triggered a memory I had forgotten until now. My great grandmother who lived to be 104 done the same with the hot boiling water. Thank you for allowing me that memory
Did he live to be 99? I wonder if is because: "he always put Vicks in his nostrils (which has camphor in it). After washing our dishes, he always poured boiling water over them as a final rinse."
That's crazy😮
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That's so sad , but a miracle that he then enjoyed longevity too.
We use Vick, but also ensure we're well armed with virus fighting meds and natural remedies.
People shoukd exploit the internet, therefore superb online physios who'll teach how to clear the lungs of muck.
Even the common cold can turn nasty, its the lungs you must nurse and study, not forgetting mobility and good fresh air.
I’m 65, and I can tell you most people I met from that generation, never talked about it. I only knew one man who admitted to having had it. He was a very good friend of mine when he was alive, and had been a veteran of WWI where he caught it two weeks after the war ended. Said he spent a month in an army hospital in Paris recovering from it. He was 28 at that time, and lived to be 95.
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I read a book called Dreamers of the Day I picked up in a Dollar General store for 3 or 5 dollars. It is a historical novel about a woman who was in Cairo, Egypt during the peace talks when Churchill was only Secretary of State and under death threats. She was in Egypt at that time because her entire family had been killed by the Spanish Flu and she was the only one to survive it and inherited money. The death that was everywhere scared them and scarred them all. The roaring 20's came out of everyone dies so we may as well drink live like there is no tomorrow.. a period of prosperity where everyone dabbled in the stock market because you could buy stock on a margin if you couldn't afford the price, contributing to the collapse. FDR stopped that. The book is a good read. My grandmother talked about everything and told stories of her life. She was born in 1901 and never even mentioned the Spanish Flu. I think it was a close companion to a generation and something they couldn't bring themselves to revisit.
I'm in my 70's and my mom spoke of THE 1918 Influenza quite a bit... because her infant brother Eric died of it. He is burried in Wales.
That effected my mother deeply.
When I became somewhat of a 'prepper' about 7 years ago.. my main focus was on Pandemics. I was able to gather up a few REAL N95 MASKS... so when I had to fly home it is possible that that saved my life. Thanks Uncle Eric! 😊
@Julie Sprik I could not agree more Julie. Those who are ABLE to prepare ahead of a crisis become a real asset to their community.
The sooner we Realize that our PURPOSE is TO SERVE... the better off we are.
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It’s gets more haunting at night when I think of the grief I’m going through with the Spanish Flu and the cases on my grief are surging up once again
My grandfather lost his mother in the first wave and his father, an uncle, and a cousin in the second wave. He was taken in by an aunt in Florida as a young child. Later on he joined and worked in the CCC camps. Life was hard back then. We are blessed to have treatments so soon after the arrival of Covid.
Vaccines is something they never had back then
It had nothing to do with Spain. Spain was simply the first country to report on it because it was a neutral country and there was no censorship.
They said it most likely originated in a Kansas military base from soldiers coming back from Europe.....WWI was going on too
@@malindyo it was kept quiet by the countries at war if it happened now they would be screaming biological weapons
You must have just missed it, but they did indeed state that fact in the video; a couple of times.
Yes.... That's covered in the video. Most History nuts already know this anyway.
It should be known as American flu
For people to LEARN from history, first you have to TEACH history in the schools. This has not been done well in the past 35 years.
Another great point. Well said.
It hasn't been done well in at least 45 years. I've learned more on my own as an adult due an interest in history and ancestry, than I ever learned in school.
@@luckyRwe That's great. I am the same way too. I love history. 😃
@@luckyRwe Yes, it's been about that long. I was a teacher and watched it happen. Now history classes have been replaced by classes in Social Justice and Globalism and very skewed lessons in US history. Keep reading on your own. Go to original sources. Blessings.
Especially black history. It’s a shame that as a white male I’ve learned more about black history from my black friends than from the entire 7 years of college!
My family were directly impacted by this pandemic. My Grandmother died at 26 years old in Los Angeles in 1918 from Pandemic. My Dad at 2 survived but not having his mother growing up was difficult. They were Norwegians, so his Aunt and Uncle took him in their home while his Dad went to work in Oregon for the railroad.
Thats crazy... Im from Oregon and im part Norwegian.
@@wm3277 You know what's even more crazy. I'm from Canada and my mom is Italian. Amazing!
@@busterbiloxi3833 greets from my Stuart side; I think Mary Queen of Scots' baby James I/VI was Italian, Rizzio's baby, the one they found walled up in Edinburgh castle.
@@busterbiloxi3833 You are a fanny baw bag.
First let me say that I enjoyed this video. Both of my parents came from this era but had two different lives.
My Dad was born in 1907 and from the age of 10 was pulled out of school to work and start supporting the family.
On the other hand my Mom was born in 1918 and had a sheltered life. She went to live with her Grandparents and graduated from high school. She became a beautician and had her shop in the front room of her Grandparents house.
Dad went into the navy in 1924 and stayed there until 1946 right before my birth in 1947. He married my mom in 1941. Dad was in Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941 when the Japanese attacked and his ship was hit by a torpedo in the engine room and he was the Chief Engineer at the time. He had not started his shift yet so he wasn't in the engine room yet and was not hurt.
Mom had no idea what was going on with my Dad because there was little to no communication because we were at war. 3 times mom was notified that my Dad had been killed. She told me that by the 3rd time she knew he was okay.
They lived through all of that and had Dad not gotten the asbestos cancer I have no doubt he would have lived to 100 or longer. Mom got pneumonia and while in the hospital got the deadliest staph infection (MRSA) that at the age of 97 was a death sentence for her. She died just after her 98th birthday.
I feel fortunate to have had parents that lived through some of the worst times of our nation. The stories they have told me are priceless.
so sad ,I still think that the Spanish flu and the Black death is much worse and killed millions of people .RIP to them all
@@rosiew1952, it is true because they didn't count the people that died from heart attack, stroke, car crashes, over dose, shootings or any of the rest of the normal things people die from. My brother died because the pig value in his heart finally stopped and they marked it down as this nasty virus. When his son treated them with a long court that would drag the hospital and all the Doctor's that had anything to do with it they changed their minds.
I think it will be interesting to see how many people died of all the regular things that kill people every year for the last 2 years and compare them to the previous few years. I think you will finding them tap dancing around that subject.
I'm surprised to hear that it was your parents who went through this pandemic, while most other comments are about their great-grandparents. If you don't mind me asking, how old are you now?
@@bartolomeucarvalho5273, Not a problem. The way my family developed was that Dad was in the Navy and an officer so he was at sea most of the time. As far as I have been able to figure it out, every time Dad would come home Mom would get pregnant.
There were 4 girls but for some reason Mom had something in her genetic makeup that the female child was always born either dead or died shortly after. So there were only the 5 boys.
I was the last one so my family always treated me as the baby. Dad was 40 years old when I was born and that was in 1947. I am now 74 years old.
I have had a very full life and have friends all over the world. I have traveled the world, mostly in North America and a little down to south America and Western Europe. I now live in Thailand and am retracing some of my Dad's steps.
Before the virus hit us I had been to Australia twice and scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef. Been to Singapore 4 times, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and all over Thailand of course. I had planned to go to China and Tibet in 2020 but that nasty virus put a stop to that. I don't know if I ever will do China now.
At this moment I am in the Bangkok Hospital because of some health issues but doing fine. They tell me I will be going home tomorrow. We'll see if that happens. So sorry about the long answer but it's 03:15 in the morning and I can't go to sleep. I'll sleep when I get home. I'm also somewhat of a history guy so I like to give people the background of why things are the way they are. It makes the answer a little more interesting.
Hope that answered your question. Lol
@@theadventuresofbrockinthai4325 thank you for your detailed explanation. I am somewhat of a history enthusiast myself, so I certainly appreciate your detailed reply. I love your story, you have lived a beautiful life so far. And it was very funny to hear a 74 year old use 'lol'.
My great grandmother was about 8 months pregnant when she became ill and both died from the Spanish flu. It absolutely changed my family dynamics as my great grandfather modified his vehicle, packed it up with supplies and his surviving 5 young daughters and did field work along the way until they made it to California from nearby Kansas City Missouri. It was an epic journey according to my grandmother and her sisters. They also didn't have the luxury of grieving either. At any rate, these types of events have the capability of completely changing and altering lifestyles.
Wow what a journey, he’s a brave man
yes people with brains will leave the cities
Now people are packing up and fleeing California.
@@MakerInMotion 🙄
Beehive Journals wow
None of my schooling taught any of this..no wonder we repeat the same problems over and over.Time to grab hold of our Education systems and shake them up don't you Think!!
I knew about this. They taught it in history. It was again brought up in Science. I also know there was a large area in a local cemetery where all the death dates are in the same time frame. Then there was speaking with elderly people. There's documentaries galore. It's on you to learn and research the world we live in.
@@johndoe-wv3nu My Great grandfather never mentioned anything about it and he loved to tell us little children all the stories of his life.He was a white man adopted by Black bahamian family.married a bahamian women.He was a Big tall man with the Bluest eyes and White hair.If he were alive today I would have my treasure back How I loved that man.
@@lori3865 awwwww
They will never tell u this coz they want to keep us all ignorants. Handling sheep is easier then wolfs.
@@azb7866 Time to restructure the education systems or teach our own the right things.
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”-George Santayana
History was rewritten. Spanish flu was just as nonsense as the current scam.
"Those who do remember the past, become determined to repeat it".
@@zentamm I don’t even think that it was re written. The Spanish flu wasn’t even recorded in history, except in passing, as a normal event. But books about it started to appear over fifty years after the “event”. And what we call the Spanish flu, was in fact three events. It was the second of those that was decidedly dodgy.
@@williampjohnston53 explain
@@djsimonrossprice9400 What do you want me to explain ? It would take me forever to completely explain. The fact that it disappeared from history is self evident. Try to find any detail about the spanish flu in history books, memoirs, or biographies of those at the centre of it. Try to find real data.
We obviously had press censorship during the war, so the press had to follow the government line. And what do we see in Google Images from 1918 ? A whole load of staged photos of people wearing masks, or hundreds of people in hospital.
The Spanish flu was three separate events - The main event was the one that occurred around armistice day, when mysteriously, healthy military age people started dropping dead. They even had successful vaccines for the “ Spanish flu” , but we are not told this.
My great grand-mother and great-grandfather both died of the Spanish flu, six months apart from each other. Their orphaned five children were sent to neighbors and relatives to be raised. One of those orphaned five children grew up to be my dear grandmother. She died in her 89th year of life, in 1990. She once told me, in 1976, on her 75th birthday, that she couldn't believe she was still alive to be so old. Little could she know, her life would continue on another 14 years to Rest in Peace three weeks before her 89th birthday. Her son, my father, lived to the same age. I wonder if I will live that long too.
My Grandfather took all his children up into northern Canada and lived in the thick woods/all seasons/hunting for food/ sleeping in open 1 1/2 yrs then returned to Niagara Falls ...all healthy. Thank God.
Maybe your grand-father carried a weak gene that would have been naturally 'un-selected' by the virus. By preventing natural un-selection, your grandfather's defective genes were propagated. God may not be as happy about this as you think :)
Excellent story. Thank you
Joe Schmoe Maybe
@@joeschmoe21 Good joke! LOL! Seriously, his grandfather displayed exactly the kind of survival instinct that has allowed the human race to survive no matter what was thrown at us!
@@joeschmoe21 I thought god doesn't believe in evolution and natural selection
Very interesting how much has not changed in pandemic response. It's like we didn't learn a thing
That's why some leaders love the uneducated. They don't question those leaders.
Its not the response. It’s the imbecilic politics that got in the way of being able to respond. The leftists tied up government because they were more interested in power and control than serving the people
@@bucky4047 riiiiight...
Chantal Finn Think about what was going on stop listening to media and think
@@bucky4047 - Yes, Buckster. Because "The Left" is in the White House making all those decisions. "The Left" are the ones standing in front of those cameras (that wicked, awful "media") feeding them prop-a-ganda day in and day out, preening for The Base, questioning why HE'S not as popular as The Virus Doctor. Whining and whining and WHINING about how he's not "very well liked", as we head for 165,000 DEAD. Yep. It's "The Left", Demon Sperm. Go sit down and read a book.
History repeats itself is an understatement.
Spanish flu was mostly vaccines google images has proof
@@PeachesCourage stop spreading misinformation. Flu vaccine wasn't even available until 1940's.
Bridget Love I think that peaches whatever account was a spammer. I saw the same reply on a lot of comments.
@@jrize3228 yes I noticed that, just wanted to get the facts out there.
Excellent, informative, revealing, no matter how or what humans do, the struggle remains real...
And look at all those brave nurses and those treating and helping others, instead of closing clinics. History is so amazing,
So, 100 years later, we as a society and species have learned nothing from past mistakes. Great. 😑
Exactly ....I learned about all this kind of thing some years ago from an excellent documentary about the Black Death
So is wall street going to crash soon?
It’s pathetic right?
Yep...history proves, if you don't learn from mistskes, you are destined to repeat them....although in this case not exactly.
I say this because when the medical community got more info on this virus they (having possibly known of the Spanish flu) told us exactly what to do...they did their job.
The problem we today had was a political divide...that is really we had NO LEADERSHIP. The medical community was NOT allowed to lead the country, the "president" put his vice president in charge. He silenced (hand strapped) the medical people. They felt their hand were tied between the president wanting to protect his reelection prospects, and telling the pubic the truth.
We do not seem as if we are going to get a handle on this thing any time soon....people refuse to comply.
Yes (we learned nothing), because we the people seem to be very well, not just ignorant, but stupid.
I agree with that 🤷🏻♀️
This documentary has to be required to be played on national TV. This is such a replica what is happening now.
I won’t want to see that in case Mum sees me cry on this again because I did before half term on Thursday, I did all day on it
Least educated and most aided by this video will be the least likely to watch or believe this history lesson! Kansas flu ! Because people from Kansas (like Dorothy in Wizard of OZ) Would Trump supporters build a wall of hate against Kansans ? They were quick to disrespect Chinese Americans
@@hollydowns2279 CCP not Americans
@holly downs. No one in America faulted Chinese Americans for the Chinese government’s lack of care and action when handling the unhygienic wet markets, (if that’s even where this virus came from). China is responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars.
Corona is not even close to as dangerous for the healthy. Look at the math and statistics im sick of science denial on both sides
The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history
hence, history always repeats itself. But that isn't necessarily a bad thing! Highs and lows are opposite sides of life's cycles.
@Andy Manahan ?
Does blow my mind. And people still questions it’s value in the modern world😫
Unfortunately, people today think we live in history pretending slavery was last year and Jim Crow still exists when actually there is almost no racism. History is a story that happens to be true, you can learn something from it but it has no impact on the present since we don't have time machines.
@@mamabeancoleman5811 The left is changing history and pretending we are living in the history they make up. History is a story we can learn from that happened to be true, nothing more, nothing less.
This is very well done. In end, at about the 31st minute, you mentioned the depression in the US Midwestern farm belt. I believe that was caused more by an unfortunate drought that extended over several growing seasons in the late 1920s. Also, the mass production of the automobile meant that crops like hay and oats that had been used to feed horses were no longer needed. When farmers all converted at the same time to planting other crops like corn and soybeans, it caused grain prices to collapse.
Yes, things rarely have one cause but a bunch happening all at the same unfortunate time.
It also had sources in the economic collapses of the heavy debts in Germany and other European countries as a result of WW1 and over speculation in stocks with no safe guards back then,etc.
I’d have to Fact check the no longer needing grain and hay and not sure how well grain and hay grew in the mid twenty’s don’t know if anyone could buy a car in 29 ..But yeah Just think New York stock exchange needs to explain what,where and when did they lose everyone’s money..
well there wasn’t just a drought-ALL of the topsoil blew away, ALL of it.
Farmers converted to soybeans back then? I am not so sure.
You did a great job putting this together. The footage is amazing, can't believe your found them.
This guy deserves at least 3 million subscribers if you's ask me. Top job mate please keep going!
simply amazing job
Spanish flu was mostly vaccines google images has proof
Great storytelling--compelling and true! My grandma was a nurse in Philadelphia during th3 1918 flu pandemic, and she left notes for us on how to survive as she said the new aeroplanes would make sure that this happened again.
How right she was!
With respect, may I ask what her notes said about how to survive? I am scared
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I’m scared about my grief on this rising more because this is the worst war stress Second wave ever
@@nora22000 A very wise woman indeed.
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Normally I’m inside hiding my Spanish flu grief much as I could but it broke out
Thank you for this very informative documentary. The Spanish flu had 4 waves and then disappeared... It's now January 2022 and we are in the middle of the 4th wave... since "history tends to repeat itself" we should now see progress. You even stated during their 4th wave, it was widely spreading but symptoms were very mild as well... just like right now with the 4th wave of Omicron
Hope this is the case that it will end drop down so much that it's not worth talking about anymore
Yes! I know several people who got the virus recently including family. The symptoms were mild and they recovered within a week or less. The current administration doesn't want to admit it is getting better and the MSM will never report it.
History is repeating itself. At the end, fascism took over in Germany, but it appears that America will be the fascist country instead of Germany. Too bad we can't learn from the past.
Technically it didn’t disappear completely, I feel like i remember it trying to spread around 2013ish, unless this was a different Spanish disease
Yes! Several of my students are infected and it’s widely being spread right now but symptoms are very very mild! Many had mild cold like symptoms! My staff that has been infected is the same! Reporting fatigue, congestion minor cough. NONE have had a fever! I am really hoping you’re right! It’s looking hopeful so far.
Can't figure out if more or less comforting to know leaders and public in the past were as stupid as now.
Well there are 4 times the population today and only 5% of the deaths so far. I would much rather be dealing with Covid19 than Spanish Flu
@@tubester4567 And far greater chance of a vaccine being developed today, considering they didn't know what viruses were 100 years ago.
Seems like not much has changed in the last hundred years!
It might be comforting to know that medical science is 100 years more advanced than it was then.
The Spanish Flu was a LOT worse than Covid-19, so the stupidity this time is world leaders have vastly over- reacted.
That was REALLY well done! I am sincerely impressed and grateful that their are still creators out there that are focused on quality.
Hello :-). Might I also suggest you research the philosopher Nostradamus.
@@ladydnannahsmoothm5633 RG)+
It only dawned on me a little while ago that this happened in the year WW1 ended meaning that people must have felt like the dark days were never going to end. I'm honestly not sure how people coped with all of this.
We just passed the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII. Sadly half the planet is itching for war.
And then came 1929...and imagine having to go thru that during the prohibition years..??? 1920-1933. December 5th is Repeal day.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I wasn’t aware of that date. I think I’ll celebrate this year. I sometimes worry that they might try to restrict alcohol again. It seems that history really is repeating itself.
@@catcrane6217 They won't repeal alcohol. It's how the public is medicated. Diverted. As long as people can buy beer on Friday night, have a cell phone and service, and cable TV they don't pay attention to what's really going on at the different governmental levels. It's our redirection.
@@Liitebulb
Very hard day for me apparently
I want to comment on your production as it’s done so professionally, your narration and editing is impeccable. Great documentary, maybe one day I’ll see your name on Netflix.
It's unsettling how we mirror what had happened before. From reaction to this pandemic to rise of fascism.
Exactly !
And it's eerie that is just 100 years apart in time.
@@deirdregibbons5609 i guess there are things we are bound to repeat until we learned from it.
The fascism mirror is scary. I’m hoping we make it a few more months. Imagine if this happened in 2017? 45 and his henchmen will have had 4 years to entrench his lies and misinformation.
And the Great Depression.
Because, "Hurr durr I don't owe you anything!"
This man's voice...and the pace of his story telling is perfect as he explains the Spanish Flu epidemic in the US. There is an art to making history come alive!
I agree!
Foreign accent to US.
At 13:10 we hear that a mutation or new strain formed and it attacked all ages. This is false, new strains are ALWAYS less of a problem because original immunity still works well. It is a disadvantage for a virus to kill the host, hence for anyone who doesn't have immunity, new strains produce milder symptoms than the original.
@@mourningwarblers5863 Is that a problem for you??? How sad...
@@mourningwarblers5863 yeah English get over it
"History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes." --Mark Twain
History repeats itself - first as tragedy, then as farce. - Marx
"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future." -Robert Heinlein
“History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.” - Terry Pratchett
@@sint0xicateme tragedy is tonight's secret word you win $50. Grouchy Marx
@Kayne Fryday He also said: 'Golf...a good walk ruined.'
This is actually eery to watch nearly 2 years into this century’s pandemic. Eery is actually an understatement. The vocabulary is the same, the media and the government downplaying certain aspects of what is going on. History repeats itself always.
"As a result of poor advice and overconfidence many American cities experienced tragic spikes in their death rates. Late implementation of social distancing measures spelled death for a great deal of citizens living in urban centers..." "...Many people simply refused to wear face masks or obey social distancing rules." 21:42 - 23:09 Gee, any of this sound familiar?
I don't know what you're talking about Az on lock down since early April. Now wearing masks every where. If you test # go up but why don't they say how many SURVIVE
NJ had required masks, since late March. We still do. We have between 250-500 new cases reported per day. It’s been steady, since early June even though the beaches are open. Mask wearing is hugely important in controlling spread, and saving lives.
America: The Dumbassery Continues
@@alanaadams7440 Be glad you live where you do. I'm not so fortunate to live in a part of America that has followed suit. Your experience is not everyone's experience and many parts of this country are not doing so well.
And even when they did take precautions....they still had 4 waves! Viruses are efficient and highly evolved little bugs......far older and more successful than humans. You'll never be safe..........because they've evolved to infect you when you do the things you need to do to live. Just like a fish gets hooked trying to eat food and stay alive. You must take your masks off, you must touch things and you're dependent on other humans who are always going to spread disease. Even if you do mitigate, as some places back then did............when you return back to life.....and you will return back to normal life..........it will be waiting for you. The spanish flu still exists today. Only Herd immunity, improvements in general human health and medical technology have made things any different. Masks make you feel safe but they can't overcome human nature. Human nature is what the virus is counting on.
This was such a good documentary! There are remarkable similarities between how governments and people responded to the Spanish flu and COVID-19.
not really. the former killed 2.5% of the world population, the latter has killed 0.008% of the world population. covid's response and mass media-caused panic is worse than covid.
Created by the same evil diabolical men, the 1% who Jacob Rothschilds revealed are bloodlines of the fallen angels, Satanist control this world!
levitating octahedron why isn’t anyone talking about the mutations of the virus? That’s the problem the longer it goes unchecked and unchallenged it will continue to get more and more virulent. That’s what happened 100+ years ago and it will happen again. Humanity is loathe to change learn or make quick adaptations never mind learn from history the average American cannot read above 5th grade it is a complete wonder more aren’t dead already. I suspect we will find out in the years to come the total number of dead is significantly higher than they currently report in order to not cause panic
@@Gardenwitch-b8f all cold/flu viruses mutate. that's why they continue to exist. natural selection at the microscopic level is fairly rapid.
levitating octahedron 🙄 I do have critical thinking skills my point was however, lost on you
Some people do years of study comparing versions to understand a time period, but you no hoh ho , you pick the first history book near you and you suddenly have all the answers! Lmoa! Thanks for this basic and thoughtless retranscription work
when history is forgotten then it can easily be repeated with simiilar effect😭
I had a government teacher say the same thing
"There is nothing new under the sun"
Bible
Correct
Ecclesiastes 1:9
King James Version
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
100 years later and money still means more then lifes.
@Binnaz Husain What???
@Binnaz Husain societies with legal abortion, liberal sex ed and access to birth control have fewer abortions than those where abortion is criminalized
Lives
@@mikkimikki5376 wooow.. Internet teacher spends 10'years searching youtube for typos. Gtats 😂
@@bobvance3277 cite your sources and data for that statement.
My maternal grandmother and great-grandmother died within one week during November 1918. My mother was only six years old. Her father was left with seven children, one only a couple of months old. He rather quickly married a woman with six children of her own. Needless to say, my mother’s life was not an easy one. However, she persevered and I miss her so much.
Very interesting, I never realized that there were 4 waves with the spanish flu.
2nd wave was 3 times the size
I hadn’t realised the first wave mostly killed the elderly and babies. I’d assumed all four waves killed the 20-40 yr bracket.
@@stevepirie8130
2nd wave affected 20-40 year olds
And that hurts me more than before
But I have to go with it
Excellent Documentary- everyone should watch, I will be sharing. We have to learn from history!!
I have 100’s of times and this grief is driving me INSANE
You’ve researched and written this very well! Great work! Thank you!
All this original footage and photos from the time are so captivating:-0
Here we are, 102 years later and we haven't learnt a thing!
And we aren’t going to learn anything this time because of all the faked statistics and political lies.
The people clearly hasnt learn that the elites are here to eradicate the people and make the survivors their slaves.
The world IS as the powerful want it to be.
Status quo is what they want. Education makes the humans wake up and speak up, then blow the whistle and become ostracised by narcs for rattling the chains of the poorly paid.
Unite People to bring in Democracy!
Scam then, scam now, you're right people haven't learnt to think.
This comment thread is sad
By the second wave of the flu, my grandmother had a six month old baby (my father) and she was pregnant again. I wish I had been able to ask her about her experiences.
These comments have to be fake. No one is this ignorant.
@@theknowall2232 Except a troll?
My grandfather’s first wife died of the Spanish flu. They lived in Philadelphia. He later met my grandmother and married her & had my Dad & his brothers.
That’s awful like. My grief on this is okay every hour again but it loves to add more cases
@Nevaeh Yessenia Many people get married after their first spouse dies.
So you're telling us that if it weren't for the Spanish Flu, you wouldn't exist.
Wow that messes with the mind.
@Nevaeh Yessenia :
Wonderful narration Pete. We can all learn so much from this history lesson. I’m sharing with my family and friends. Stay safe everyone - be kind and understanding. We are all in this together. 🙏 🇺🇸 ❤️
Stop praying and get your hands dirty.
My Great grandmother had just had another baby, her and the baby were both taken by the flu. My Grandmother was three, with an older brother and sister. All three living children had to be farmed out to other families but they always stayed in touch with each other. They were from Argona Kansas.
How sad. My grandparents were alive during this too, but they never talked about it; I have no idea what happened. Except that my grandmother was pregnant with my father, around this time. And in Philadelphia, too! How scary.
Thank you for sharing...more need to hear historic reality as opposed to lies...
Pregnant women and new mothers were hit especially hard. I met a woman born into a house with everyone ill with flu. She was premature because of the flu. Nobody expected her to survive but the exhausted doctor told the nurse to put the baby in a box in the warm (not hot) oven and if she was still alive in the morning, feed her. I don't recall who she said raised her. Among my relatives was a pregnant woman who died with her child, leaving three children and a heart-broken husband behind. (He was very emotional due to his mother dying when pregnant, not from the flu, when he was a small boy leaving three children and a heart-broken husband behind. That is an ugly way for history to repeat itself.)
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Holy shit! I thought this had been on TV and was uploaded onto RUclips. You're amazing at this!
I won’t be because I’d be crying through it
@@FutureBoyWonder
He is and this was how I finally knew what my mystery grief was in September and I was panicking over it one night
Missing my grief a lot now compared to before
@@nicolelawless3199 What?
@@rosecoloredlady7094
Does no one notice my hard times because this grief was one of the worst
It’s absolutely criminal that around 50% of the history I’ve learned, I’ve learned out side of school.
My history textbook had ONE PARAGRAPH on all the Native America tribes and hardly touched on the trail of tears. Never mind teaching about the Spanish flu
Most history that matters I learned before college I did from Assassin's Creed lmao. Not like college helped.
Our education system is controlled! We're treated like sheep. They condition us by teaching us what they only want us to know...
@duckduck Goal my EXACT opinion
It would be great if public education would improve and become full spectrum, but it reflects our society. It is most important that the individual takes their own education into their own hands. There is basically unlimited knowledge available to nearly anyone on earth now.
@@steeviem1835 yes, that is obvious so self-educate!
Til today i was not a fan of history tellers. This is great work with such a pleasant voice one really wants to listen to 👍💫⚘
Wow! The similarities between then and now are truly eerie.
In the pandemic of 1918 the Spanish Flu killed an estimated 50 million people in the world, in the United States the figure is 675,000 deaths, the majority of those deaths occurred in the first six weeks of the pandemic. according to current data in timing from when Covid 19 first showed up in China until now a full 9 months later worldwide there have been 23, 000,000 infections and less than 2,000,000 deaths with 15,000,000 recovered, and that is world-wide, this is not the same as the first pandemic, while I do believe the virus is real, I know for a fact the death numbers in the USA and also the positive tests are artificially inflated examples include persons who died of natural causes either from terminal illnesses in hospice or car or even industrial accidents and CV 19 was put on their death certificates. Also personally know people who "tested" positive were never I'll the whole time in quarantine not even with a sniffle. People here also called into testing sites to get an appointment to test, but when the line was too long left without the test, a few days later they were notified they had CV 19 . Doctors sent in blank swabs without using them and they came back positive, all of this and the numbers are no where close to matching the pandemic of 1918.
@@tenabarnes3269 1½11²1111111111111111111111¹¹²
Great work, thank you. This should be taught in schools.
Hi Francille how are you. Greetings from Ireland. Hope you’re safe from covid. This is a very good video. Best wishes for a happy new year 😊🙏 Michael
Those who don't remember the past, are condmed to repeat it.
Yeah learn from your mistakes
Unfortunately this is something we can't predict or prevent. Plays into the idea of eternal recurrence.
@@jimbo43ohara51 Napoleon invaded Russia in September (you might as well say Winter).Hitler also be invaded late in the year. Random!? No, I think not .
Actually fear repeats history and the Spanish flu was doctor's shots back then you can easily see on google images too
@@PeachesCourage (?)
My grandmother was 16 when she got it. She was treated with kerosene on a sugar cube because there was no cure. She lived to be ninety, but had lung damage her whole life.
Awesome! This video needs to be seen by everyone: it sheds such a light on current events and what might come next, because we are replaying exactly what happened in 1918-1920 - from the traits of the virus itself to the chaotic, inconsistent management on the part of government, to the reaction of the general population. It's chilling, and unpardonable, that this country is just as ignorant and inept as it was 100 years ago, even though we have a roadmap of what to do and what not to do from the 1918 event. Thank you for this video - will share!
Unfortunately history ignored repeats -
so true Cathy
and still making people wrap their faces with dirty diapers
Repost it on facebook
It's not exactly the same. We didn't have a million people in the sky at any given moment in 1918. Widespread air travel is making this thing much worse than it would have been otherwise.
One of my Great Grandfathers was a doctor in WW I. He died of the misnamed Spanish Flu in 1920. My Great Grandmother must have talked about it a lot because our mother talked about it.
My grandmother was 11 years old when this was happening her patents kept her home from school otherwise she wouldn't have lived to be my grandmother
my 8 yr old grandpa kept his whole family of five alive in Flatbush Brooklyn. He was always known as a man of respect after that. RIP John Mazziotti. I think of you when COVID 19 gets tough.
Spanish flu mostly vaccines google images
My grandfather’s older brother died of it. I wish I knew the full story but I think it was just luck that my grandfather survived.
You are assuming that is a good thing! Maybe your grandmother had weak genes, and did not get naturally 'un-selected', resulting in her genes being propagated.
:)
YOURE GRANDMA IS 100 YEARS OLD! I WOAH
You do exceptional work History Time. My grandfather had the Spanish flu in Canada at 17....scarred his lungs terribly.
I had the Swine flu in 1976 and lost two and a half months. This is real, and this documentary is excellent 👏
I had a rare SMA infection which i must’ve caught in Nevil Hall hospital because i started feeling very full and I feared it could have been cancer and I threw up for 79 hours straight, even my beloved Woody.EXE saw this and I collapsed in front of him, that’s when he rushed me to hospital because my hands were getting clinched up and all I heard was him panicking like hell. I woken up a day later to find him at my bedside wondering what the heck just happened and that’s when I had the SMA diagnosis the following morning, I was stunned. I was put on a TPN feed pick line which fed me from my vains to the heart to get my strength back and struggled massively because I was panicking every time food was put in front of me without warning and I’ve never ever witnessed Woody.EXE going full power until then like wow, he was proper angry at them because he was very stressed. 3 weeks went past and I was discharged from the hospital after 4 weeks of treatment and absolute hell. Then 9 months later, I caught COVID and beat it
You’re a really good storyteller, thanks for this! :)
These comments have to be fake. No one is this ignorant.
But then this was how my grief randomly came one night a year ago but my dog was dying that time and I was over worrying about her. I’m still glad my grief came at perfect timing
Amazing to see how we as humans still haven’t evolved and learned our lesson from over 100 years ago
I'd say we've gone backwards. Aren't we supposed to know more, now?
Ya but what are the lessons is the question.
JerseyMark Thank you! This was a hoax and agenda like Covid is.
JerseyMark No Covid 19 is fake, Corona virus is the common cold which are always slightly different strains they say and Dogs and Farm Animals get vaccinated against it and people that get the Flu shot get vaccinated against it as Corona is one of the deleted influenzas in it.
JerseyMark Heard what one? That’s 100% factual.
I cant remember ever learning about this back in school, I remember researching it myself but never being taught it. Crazy.
I didn't really learn of its scale until the 1990's.
A teacher can't teach what he/she doesn't know.
It is interesting what our state governments want us to learn. There is so much that we weren’t taught that is really important to learn. They like to keep people uneducated, it works well when those students hit the polls.
@@redangrybird7564 teachers have to follow a curriculum and it would probably take an entire lecture or two which could cut into the time. It's good for STEM classes, but enforced curriculums in history classes leads to omitting a lot of important events and narratives due to certain states writing most of the textbooks.
I didn't learn about this in school either. If it was even mentioned, it was very briefly, and only brushed over. I actually learned about it a few years back, when I got curious, and started researching the worst pandemics in human history. I had no idea that there had been one so recently.
My grandfather had lifelong encephalitis which was a long term after effect of the Spanish flu. Many people suffered this disease as a follow on from that pandemic. The type of Encephalitis made these people suffer extreme headaches, fits, periods of catatonic apathy. It limited his ability to earn a living. So it’s not all as simple as once we get through it everyone who doesn’t die bounces back to a better life and society. We don’t know what the long term effects of COVID will be. In Australia our government has decided that now we have a highly vaccinated population that Omicron should be let rip. It’s an experiment that may have decades long impacts.
My great grandmother died from the Spanish Flu. I remember as a little girl hearing about this and thinking that could never happen now. Little did I know.....
I only stumbled on this quite by accident. I loved it and wanted to tell you that it was done so great. I learned so muchThe Spanish flu thank you.
I did too but it caused me to have an overwhelming grief rate. It’s doing it again from today
I really miss my grief now and I want it back to help me taken down the Indian covid variant
One of the most well made documentaries I've watched. Thank you!
The parallels between then and now are striking, medically, economically and politically. When people start complaining about how long it's taking to get thru covid, I always reply with "the Spanish Flu took three years, just plan for it".
You did a wonderful job on this presentation.
@Binnaz Husain what's that got to do with it?
Now I truly believe in the saying, "History repeats itself".
Sr i am 67 and i was 34 when my husband and i flying from NJ to Florida to go in a cruise .to several island.the fly was pack the cruise was pack.my husband who was medical radiology came back rely sick.the doctor said he as in contact who have skin warm.in the fly or any of any place where people don't even now they have that contagious dices.ausid USA .that was the only vacation we go to other countries because like the doctor said at that time other countries have illness America don't even now.and the travel business don't goin to give that information.and here we are.33 years later.
And I also believe that worst things tend to repeat after a hundred-year period...that's a cycle
Learned*...
The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. KM
In 1918 and 1919, only the vaccinated died.
My parents both got the Hong Kong flu in 1968. They were very sick, but they recovered. No one remembers that one.
I do. I had that as a kid . I got very sick but recovered. Also had 2009 swine flu got very sick but again recovered. Struck again me and my daughter both caught covid19 from her work . Got very sick for several weeks at home but recovered. I count my lucky stars so to speak
@@kathleengivant-taylor2277 Geez! That's not the hat trick you want. Glad you're ok...I was six when my parents were so sick...it was pretty scary. I had to bring them food and drink in bed for a couple of days.
@@kathleengivant-taylor2277
Wow
@@kathleengivant-taylor2277
18 years ago, I survived my brain issues and got out of hospital in October 2002. I was honestly so ill that I could’ve died
JP you have brain damage.
Excellent documentary. Although my Grandfather was Mustard-gassed in the trenches in France he survived and worked as a mechanic at a coalmine-lift afterwards but I never heard of Spanish 'flu until Covid came along.
My Grandmother was 15 when this happened. Amazing how our family survived being Polish immigrants.
'Lets go to Amerikkka where we can become Wt'
Very fortunate. This other video explains that the flu virus sequence can be traced to specific animals ®ions & time. The guy said that people around 1880- 1915 had been minimally subjected to these flu virus. People born after these years weren't. And that's why the 20-30 y.o. were slammed. Because they were without immunity type exposure. They tracked the H1 and N3 similar sequences. Amazing.
What a sad, sad testimony to Humankind... truly, we do not learn lessons well😪😪😪
A virus is part of our natural evolution. Mother nature is cruel but effective. Science says we evolved from apes to humans via natural selection, with many such natural un-selection events.
Religious fanatics do not believe in science, and assume that humanity is not part of nature. The real sad thing is that humanity is still not learning the big lesson, that humankind is subject to the same evolutionary processes as all other life on the planet.
It’s devastating how many died of this flu and I try my best to hide it since September. During my college days I don’t talk much
I was taught none of this at school in Queensland, Australia in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Unbelievable.
Yes well Queensland is behind the rest of the world in most things.
Well maybe I should have said a very separate part of the world.
I went to public school in California in the 70's and it was never taught. I doubt it is still being included in History books. Why was it left out of books?
Michael de Marillac nobody was...it has just appeared now...strangely...
@@annettemorley744 I was so dissapointed COVID hit quite fast. Just as I was about to sail for a few years throughout Europe to see as much as I can, Fjords, the Mediterranean in summer and the UK for it's famous fish and chips. Now I wait patiently. Thankfully Australia has beautiful and pristine waterways, but even crossing State borders is tricky. I think it is strange too, take care.
My father’s mother died in 1919. From what was told to me was she was well in the morning sick in the afternoon and dead by night. She left behind 6 children and her husband.
(Sigh) The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Spanish flu was mostly vaccines google images has proof
You are respected. Thank you. I have sent solutions for everything, but D.C. does not care. They owe the Americans $12,000.00 so far to catch up on rent, and to get a new place, if evicted. They can train everyone to WORK online, after $2k monthly training, and then 2K income monthly, since the evil ones took away our incomes. The virus is a Fake to steal trillions of dollars, and to
kill people by murder, starvation and being homeless.
Do not send your children to school, but recorded lessons by subject, no longer than 15-30 minutes, and played at anytime. Homework should be limited and given up to 30 days to finish. Children and adults need to interact, and security should be hired to stop the drive by murders! Everyone needs to be armed and free training, or you will be targeted anywhere by age and gender by heartless and evil demons.
My suggestions are deleted, but i beg everyone to demand what I have suggested , and add what you want.
If you are not a part of the SOLUTION, then you are part of the PROBLEM!
Life can be over in an instant, and your poverty, riches, or status will not save you.
ALL LIVES MATTER!!!!!.
As a nurse, I have seen the bodies stored in refrigerated trucks. I have seen those infected by a so-called fake virus and was with more people than I care to remember as they took their last breath.
@@PeachesCourage
m..m
@Barbara Mulvaney trying to say it's the Bolshevik virus if you need to have it explained you're never gonna get it. Read my comment dem
My grandfather had it and survived. He was in WW1 (European theatre) at the time. He helped the Doctor on the ship coming back to the States. And wrote the last will and testament for the men that were dying. They had no choice but to bury them at sea.
That was brilliant, thank you. The parallels are astonishing.
Excellent! Thank You. Now we see history repeating itself in 2020- onward.
I feel like i am watching the news in black and white.
Umm, you are. 😃🙃😉☺😁
The similarities are nuts.
Time Traveler trying to escape the 2020 pandemic arriving in Philadelphia, 1918 - "Awshit."
LOL !!!
This made me lol
Lol
I would time travel to get those who died back because my grief oh my god
Well, if you were from 2020 you'd have a pretty strong resistance to H1N1, if you'd been getting flu shots. The other way around, 1918 to 2020, you'd be super dead.
Not sure if people realize the irony of 2.1 thousand people who viewed this - gave it a thumbs down. Why would they watch a history documentary and choose to dislike it? I really don't get it and may be the reason we are where we are today.
Those are faucy supporters!
This was actually really well done with a good broad explanation of what really happened back then. Scary though it was, I enjoyed it
Maybe they gave it a thumbs down because it wasn’t real history. It was false history.
@@williampjohnston53 Oh please do explain, i would so love to read it, please.
@@commander-wulf3076 Absolutely. To prove or disprove the existence of anything from history, I would suggest to start from history books, reference books, dictionaries, biographies memoirs, or encyclopaedias. You won’t find any reference to the spanish flu as an event in any of those, until recently. In fact you will not find any book about the Spanish flu at all within fifty years of the “event”.
All the staged images that we see of the Spanish flu are highly controlled images approved by the authorities, so everything in them was EXACTLY what they wanted to be seen.
What is referred to as “Spanish flu” was influenza, which covered a number of different illnesses, and the vaccines that they used to treat the Spanish flu were all regarded as being successful at the time.
There is still time to learn from History…never to late.
Haunting parallels to today and people's reactions to a virus you can't negotiate with, thanks
your life and mind are controlled by television and social media. spanish flu killed 2.5% of the world population. covid's killed only 0.008%. you are mocking the victims of spanish flu by saying dumb socially pandering shit like "haunting paralells looool". learn to think for yourself.
@@levitatingoctahedron922
Your numbers are way off - what's Your source?
Furthermore, Mr Richard Wogsland isn't mocking or laughing at anyone - he's merely making an observation...
💙💛🌹💜🍎🇺🇸
@@lena-mariaglouis-charles7036 no they aren't. my source is basic fucking middle school math. 677k people have died from covid as of today. there are 7.8 billion people on the planet. 677k is 0.008679487179487178% of 7.8 billion.
I swear to god. stop letting television and social media turn you into a tool.
@@levitatingoctahedron922
I was raised to be a critical thinker - and to be respectful towards others.
You obviously equal being a nasty bully with being "right" - and I still don't agree with Your "calculation"...
The haunting parallel may not be in the number of deaths but similar in the handling and misinformation campaigns that allowed individuals to Believe it was just the flu. No we thinks it's just a hoax.
This makes me realize they play the same games over and over. Corrupt governments, main steam media, and bankers.
you left out stupid citizenry. That's key or the rest go nowhere. Responsibility.
Yup history repeats itself because it's orchestrated to do so.
All three are still owned by the people as well.
Hmmm. What you call "games" is in reality human nature you are talking about. That is why 100 years later they think & react the same.
Rocket Sunshine we must add another corrupt block they had no problem adding...pharma.
Thank you. I've watched other videos on the,1918 flu, but I learned more from yours. Human behavior has not changed as much as I hoped. We have more knowledge, but still there are those who dont listen .
I remember watching this in late August and that’s how my Spanish flu grief started. And a month later on my friends horse Honey’s death anniversary my grief cases surged rapidly then just started panicking randomly I even tried to reveal this to Mum but I sadly wasn’t brave enough. On September 21st 2020, my dog was put down and I was crying more because my grief was doing it this time, and finally told Mum that following emotional night and she understands what I was going through that night.
Revealing it to her was one of the bravest things I’ve done because I couldn’t afford to be overwhelmed but I was 4 times now
Still watching and waiting for people to come to their senses! Watching this again, 3rd time! I love it 🥰.
Thanks Pete!
And this is where my mystery grief came from as my dog of 11 years was dying last year. I still miss her but I have a new dog Rosie we got her almost a year ago
The more time.passes, the more the antivaxers get more detached from reality
Thank you for uploading this!; Wish this was mandatory viewing in schools, Congress, all government officials!!!
The scary thing about the current pandemic is that we are not even in the flu season yet. And local leaders are hell bent on opening schools. As a school bus driver, I think having a bunch of kids on a school bus for over an hour to and from before this virus subsides and a vaccine is implemented is a death sentence for teachers, maintenance, bus drivers, and students. The insanity of mankind is never ending.
Science says open open open..
IKR? I’ve been predicting that it will kill 3.5 billion around the world before the mutations burn out
@@Gardenwitch-b8f Take tour aluminum cap off.
bill jenkins please go to church tomorrow preferably without your mask 😂
@OnWingsOfHope wrong. You really think senile creepy Joe Biden is the answer right now? The democrats can't even keep a bunch of brats from tearing their cities down. Biden doesn't even know where the he'll he is most of the time. Pelosi and Biden belong in a rest home. Democrats should be refunded and Trump is the only one who can bring us back out of this mess. By the way, I used to be a Democrat before you all became delusional communists.
My great grandfather who fought in both WW for Italy, didn't get infected luckily but tons of soldiers of the Italian kingdom did
Spanish flu mostly vaccines google images
He was a great man.
Great video mate,,, thanks buddy
I appreciate all the research that had to go into this. Makes me think that my grandfather who died in 1918 might have been a victim of the SF, especially since my father had just returned from WWI.
When the bodies are piled up faster than they can be buried, then you know you have a problem.
@Make Me Believe I thought he was talking about Chicago
When bodies are pilling up faster than they can be buried, then you leaders know that you should have acted earlier and that now only drastic measures can alleviate a bit.
I think that will be too late.
@Make Me Believe Ecuador?
Google images proof Spanish flu was mostly vaccines
The last few minutes about fascism seemed like a warning of where we are now
I am pretty sure someone out there is planning to take the reins of a dying nation.
@@amateruss
Caesar must build a army to pass the Rubicon and take Rome....
Who'll be the caesar in America?
@@Menaceblue3 Justin Trudeau
Thank you. Very informative and well put together. History repeats itself.
I can't imagine living through those times. Sadly, now, viruses are leveraged for political gain moreso than in the past, regardless of how serious the infection. If people don't start thinking for themselves, and living healthy lives, we will end up with less freedom and quite a bit of regression.
Amen!
Garbage! Viruses don't care about politics. They are a part of living on this planet. Science has helped us overcome them.
@@juliering3646 that's not what the poster commented. Read it again
@@tnpollypol1853 The comment inferred that viruses are increasingly used to gain political power and minimize freedom. Once again I say that's garbage. Viruses care little about political gain and repressed freedom. The only way to prevent a voracious virus like Covid and its variants is to starve the pathogens. Short sharp lock downs are not political or an attempt to deny freedom. They are a major defence against an unseen enemy. Mass vaccination is essential to prevent more insidious variants. Leading healthy lives will not prevent a pandemic.
@@juliering3646 I guess you didn't read carefully -- as that is NOT what I said, lol. Have a good day.
And yet we never learn from history and it is repeating itself. So sad.
But covid isn’t bad as the Spanish flu. My grief is finally back and I’ve missed it so much
We don't learn from our history, it is not taught in school. So what we don't understand we erase
I was going to quote that but you beat me to it. Next will be another financial collapse worldwide. Covid 19 is the trigger event . Take care , do not overspend pay down debts if possible.
what should be different and why wasnt it? those at the top making big decisions know far more than we do and have access to the best academics alive. for whatever reason, this is the course of action that suits them.
@@bellywooton we have a tool this time , to combat it ...a vaccine
It’s weird to think that all of us that are alive today, are only here because our assessors were strong enough to survive all those pandemics and plagues.
You mean "ancestors." :)
The spanish went to Mexico in the 1700's with a cold. Killed hundred's of thousands. The plague killed millions in Europe. Pandemics will always be around. Goes in cirlces! We're in one now but we'll get through it
What about the 12 million Africans that were taken from the shores of Africa and brought to the New World in the bottom of slave ships what about their ancestors who are still alive today
@@starloszelson4541 What does that have to do with a viral pandemic?
@@seanmcgoldrick1702 That's optimistic of you. But covid isn't going anywhere.
Absolutely mesmerizing…my Grandma was born 1900, she lived through this Spanish Flu and two WWars. I missed the boat in not documenting her experiences of life through all of this. She even survived cancer and died at 98. I miss her terribly she was a good woman and from the Penna Dutch background. RIP🇺🇸🥰🌹🙏❤️😢we need to realize History repeats and we’ve got to pull up our boot straps and change the world, especially for our grandchildren those who follow us. Make it a better place for humans and animals.
Imagine people from that year 1919 thinking that it was the end of the world. But here we are, the living proof that there is tomorrow. Somehow they succeeded.
At the cost of countless lives :(
@@andreacoones1587 yes, sadly.
Clearly, the other plagues didn't kill everyone, though
Good point, because it’s definitely looking very end of worldish right now Lol!
I’m thinking that in 2020. I’m worried about the second wave getting worse and my Spanish flu grief going way up it’s happened for the past 2 weeks since my grief started