The Perfect Virus: The 1918 Spanish Flu
What can we learn from the past? Pandemic mental health accounts are strikingly familiar. Support our channel here! / historydose Merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/hist... The chronic fear and isolation now gripping the world is not unprecedented. There appears to be a certain psychology to a pandemic— mental patterns now reemerging in the face of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Today, in this mini historical documentary, we look at the human side of the 1918 “Spanish influenza” pandemic. It’s in the firsthand accounts that we begin to truly understand the experiences of the doctors, parents, nurses, civilians, and children who endured the 1918 pandemic. In seeing familiar problems and fears, we also get a glimpse at how people of the era found ways to endure physically and mentally. An enormous thanks to all of Patreon supporters, especially Sean and ThemeFinland! Also, the pedantic part of me would like to acknowledge that I accidentally skipped over a couple of words while reading the N. Roy Grist quotations. Sources “1918 Pandemic Influenza Survivors Share Their Stories.” Interviews by Ann Brantley. Alabama Public Health, http://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/pa.... Chand, Rakashi. “100 Years after the Influenza Pandemic.” The Beehive, Massachusetts Historical Society, 27 Aug. 2018, www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2018/08/100-years-after-the-influenza-pandemic/. Brandorff, Dana. “What We Can Learn from the Past to Deal with Coronavirus.” University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 11 Mar. 2020, nursing.cuanschutz.edu/about/news/CU-nursing/colorado-nurse-diary-recounts-spanish-flu. Cohen, David S. “What Coverage of the Spanish Flu Pandemic Can Tell Us About Coronavirus.” Variety, Variety, 1 Apr. 2020, variety.com/2020/biz/features/coronavirus-outbreak-1918-flu-pandemic-1203551560/. “Collection of Personal Narratives, Manuscripts and Ephemera about the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic, 1917-1923.” Online Archive of California, oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2t1nf4s5/entire_text/. United States, Congress, Garrett, Thomas A. “Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic.” Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, 2007. https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/fi... development/research reports/pandemic_flu_report.pdf. Grist, N. Roy. “A Letter From Camp Devens.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/influenza-letter/. Knobler, Stacey. “1918 Revisited: Lessons and Suggestions for Further Inquiry.” National Academies Press, Forum on Microbial Threats, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB.... Phillips, Howard. “Influenza Pandemic (Africa).” International Encyclopedia of the First World War, 8 Oct. 2014, https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.... Roos, Dave. “How U.S. Cities Tried to Halt the Spread of the 1918 Spanish Flu.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 11 Mar. 2020, www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-pandemic-response-cities. Saul, Toby. “Inside the Swift, Deadly History of the Spanish Flu Pandemic.” National Geographic, 5 Mar. 2020, www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2018/03-04/history-spanish-flu-pandemic/ Walker, Childs. “The 'Forgotten Pandemic': What Researchers Can Learn from the 1918 Flu.” The Taunton Daily Gazette, 13 Apr. 2020, www.tauntongazette.com/news/20200413/forgotten-pandemic-what-researchers-can-learn-from-1918-flu. Newspaper Sources Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa), 17 Oct. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc... Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa), 09 Oct. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc... Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]), 15 Nov. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc... Seattle star. (Seattle, Wash.), 19 Sept. 1918. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc... Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho), 28 Feb. 1919. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc... MUSIC: Scott Buckley / musicbys… Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Audionautix Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Dramatic Solo Cello by Ambient Puppy Purchase of Envato Market Standard Music License for opening song
