"Ewing predicts the strong desire to get past the pandemic will translate to a lack of commemoration or change, but Bristow tends towards optimism.

'No one has escaped completely unscathed,' she says. 'But will that make us more humane with one another, more caring of one another? My hope is that trauma that everyone has experienced at some level will make for a more robust reckoning in the aftermath than we saw in 1918.'"

http://archive.today/2024.02.05-040522/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-lessons-learned-from-1918-flu-fatigue-according-to-historians

Tfw Ewing was right 😔

#1918flu #pandemic #covid #covid19 #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

@eniko
My mother (photo right) was born soon after that 1918 pandemic. Her older sister Anna (photo left) had died from it while still a toddler, just shy of her third birthday.

My entire childhood, my Mom was always telling me to "go wash my hands."

I couldn't come in the door from school without washing my hands right away (and before getting my hugs welcoming me home).

I couldn't touch money without washing my hands right after.

I was taught how to NOT touch things: use my sleeves for public doorknobs, flush public toilets with my shoe/elbow (if I had to use them at all), and just generally be aware of germs in public spaces.

People probably thought she was #OCD and weird when I was growing up. And during my childhood years (1960s to 70s), she probably was.

But she was also correct.

"Did you wash your hands?"

Thanks, Mom.👐 ❤️

#CovidIsNotOver #Covid #CovidIsNotTheFlu #PandemicPrecautions #WashYourHands #Genealogy #1918Flu #1918FluEpidemic

Article from Dec 2020:

"A century of COVID-19: what history tells us about the long-term effects of a pandemic"

https://gero.usc.edu/2020/12/08/century-covid-pandemic-risk/

“The fact that this cohort of people had elevated risks of disease even more than six decades after the pandemic indicates that maternal exposure to the infvirus appears to have had wide-ranging and long-lasting health effects on offspring"

#1918Flu #longCOVID #MECFS #COVID19 #Influenza #H1N1 #longFlu #NEISvoid #pwME

I don't need to check bones to know, my family tree has my great great grandmother and her two youngest children all died of flu in spring 1919 in northern Wisconsin. #nyt #flu #1918flu

Seht ihr nicht?

Na, da. Da ist er. Der einzige Maskenträger:

http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=4-4001726-1

#archivalien #digitalisat #1918flu #histodons

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#COVID19 #COVID #SARScov2 #LongCOVID #1918flu #PublicHealth #pandemics #LongFlu #SpanishFlu #PAIS #PostAcuteInfectionSyndrome #RiskAvoidance #RiskAversion #EllsbergParadox #amyloids #neurobiology #LewyBody #LewyBodies #neurodegradation #CellBiology #ParkinsonsDisease #parkinsonism #ProteinMisfolding #alphaSynuclein #synucleinopathy #synucleinopathies #DreamEnactmentSleepDisorder #SleepDisorders

@aetiology

does anyone know of a good #phylogenetic paper that shows 2009, 1977, and 1918 flu?

i found one that shows #1977flu looking sus … but i want the full picture of #H1N1

#1918flu #2009flu

cc other mes @kirt@mstdn.science @kirt@zeroes.ca @kirt@genomic.social @kirt@mastodon.social

FASCINATING & just a little scary

This is a really interesting study proposing that increased heart disease cases and deaths during the 1960's may have been a late result of the 1918 influence pandemic.

#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #Covid #Pandemic #1918flu

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC387427/

Are you learning about #ImmunologicalImprinting in the context of debates about Covid booster strategies -- how often people at different risk levels should be boosted and with what mix of variants?

You might be interested in this piece in @TheConversationUS (by me and @martineiermann) about how #imprinting may have been the key to an odd puzzle about the #1918flu pandemic.

https://theconversation.com/1918-flu-pandemic-upended-long-standing-social-inequalities-at-least-for-a-time-new-study-finds-195718

@TheConversation_us

A sneak peek 🧵 of a paper just accepted at Population Studies with Mathias Mølbak Ingholt! Our findings rewrite one of the basic narratives about the 1918 flu pandemic and fertility.

Our argument: the pandemic *dampened* fertility in both 1919 and 1920, rather than causing a 1920 baby boom (as has been long held).

#1918flu #demography #pandemics #socialhistory

Crises like pandemics make inequalities worse -- right?

Let Martin Eiermann and I tell you about a surprising exception -- and a puzzle that might turn on an unusual collision of viral and social histories.

In @TheConversationUS

#1918 #1918flu #RacialDisparities #ImmunologicalImprinting #SocialHistory #pandemics #demography #sociology #influenza #migration

https://theconversation.com/1918-flu-pandemic-upended-long-standing-social-inequalities-at-least-for-a-time-new-study-finds-195718

They are good rules. 👍 #1918Flu https://t.co/q2trGbgqpK