Any one heard of the 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic? I hadn’t.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/forgot...t-to-todays-coronavirus-lockdowns-11587720625
I know 1968 was a bad year (Vietnam, assassinations of MLK and Robert Kennedy, etc.) and that there was a lot of distractions at the time even without the relentless, 24 hour news cycle we have today. But we responded to this quite a bit differently.
(Spoiler alert for those without WSJ access: 100,000 Americans died, but we didn’t shutdown the economy or impose draconian stay-at-home orders. We just endured it until a vaccine was developed.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/forgot...t-to-todays-coronavirus-lockdowns-11587720625
I know 1968 was a bad year (Vietnam, assassinations of MLK and Robert Kennedy, etc.) and that there was a lot of distractions at the time even without the relentless, 24 hour news cycle we have today. But we responded to this quite a bit differently.
(Spoiler alert for those without WSJ access: 100,000 Americans died, but we didn’t shutdown the economy or impose draconian stay-at-home orders. We just endured it until a vaccine was developed.)
