So far the Spanish Flu and Covid 19 have a lot of similarities.Even though the Spanish flu occurred 100 years ago the same adviceis given today as it was then, even with the leaps and bounds madein hygiene. The main advice in both instances; masking, stay awayfrom the sick, and wash your hands. Health authorities at the timewere encouraging masking just like they are now. Back then maskswere made of gauze and cheese cloth. In some cases of people werenot masked in certain places they were fined or even imprisoned.During the Covid pandemic establishments have been able to notserve people who refuse to wear a mask or face covering of somekind.
The Spanish flu and Covid are different viruses from differentviral families but they are transmitted similarly. They both aretransmitted via respiratory droplets. Both of these viruses werecompletely new, there was no immunity, and people refused to wearmasks back then as well! The Spanish flu sadly took more children’slives especially if they were under 5 years old. Covid has notclaimed many children’s lives, and it seems that they are morecarriers than contracting the virus. The Spanish flu was much moredeadly than Covid- almost 50 times more deadly.
World War I played a huge part in the spread of the Spanish flu.There is no large world war going on now but people travel theworld more than they ever have via airplanes, boats, and trains.Travel was not the same back then.
The biggest fact that we can learn from the 1918 pandemic wasthat people developed immunity to it naturally (vaccines were notaround then!) after 2 years.
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