Saintman2884
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Well rsmith this is the first time in an entire century since the H1N1 Spanish Flu virus struck towards the very end of WWI and lasted until 1920 that we've had to deal with a major, highly contagious superflu. the last parts of the world it effected were Australaia and New Zealand, and by that point, the virus potency and virulent nature weren't as strong, which is why Oceania had some of the lowest numbers of casualties compared to USA, Canada, European countries. I've read some horrific, graphic yet heartbreaking stories of wounded WWI American soldiers who would be healthy in the morning, catch Spanish superflu by mid-afternoon, and be dead by following morning at Walter Reed military hospital in Washington, DC.
These are unusual, unfamiliar, very strange times we live in now and probably 95% of the world's population right now has never been forced to confront, understand and deal with its deadly consequences at the same time much less try to maintain some semblance of the kind of lives we were living a year ago. That's an extremely hard, very bitter set of pills for some people to swallow.
There was a famous story that adds to this terrible, enormous sense of heartbreak involving a highly trained, beloved registered nurse who worked at Walter Reed during WWI and during the initial onset of H1N1 virus and was well-liked by soldiers, her fellow nurses, and doctors but who unfortunately caught the very same virus and died, in a medical wing not far away from the soldiers she treated. When news broke of her untimely death, their was a huge outpouring of grief, sadness, and sympathy from millions of Americans who found out about her hard work, dedication and selfless focus towards nursing badly injured American soldiers back to health. Her death was covered in major newspapers all across the country from New York Times, Washington Post, Saturday Evening Post I believe did a feature on her.
These are unusual, unfamiliar, very strange times we live in now and probably 95% of the world's population right now has never been forced to confront, understand and deal with its deadly consequences at the same time much less try to maintain some semblance of the kind of lives we were living a year ago. That's an extremely hard, very bitter set of pills for some people to swallow.
There was a famous story that adds to this terrible, enormous sense of heartbreak involving a highly trained, beloved registered nurse who worked at Walter Reed during WWI and during the initial onset of H1N1 virus and was well-liked by soldiers, her fellow nurses, and doctors but who unfortunately caught the very same virus and died, in a medical wing not far away from the soldiers she treated. When news broke of her untimely death, their was a huge outpouring of grief, sadness, and sympathy from millions of Americans who found out about her hard work, dedication and selfless focus towards nursing badly injured American soldiers back to health. Her death was covered in major newspapers all across the country from New York Times, Washington Post, Saturday Evening Post I believe did a feature on her.
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