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Originally Posted by jd1020

I believe he's referring to the difference between what happened in Philadelphia and St. Louis.

St. Louis did what we are doing now and saw half the deaths of Philadelphia who threw a big ****ing parade where everyone mingled.

Originally Posted by RINGLEADER

Here’s the highlight:

The first wave of the 1918 pandemic occurred in the spring and was generally mild. The sick, who experienced such typical flu symptoms as chills, fever and fatigue, usually recovered after several days, and the number of reported deaths was low.

However, a second, highly contagious wave of influenza appeared with a vengeance in the fall of that same year. Victims died within hours or days of developing symptoms, their skin turning blue and their lungs filling with fluid that caused them to suffocate. In just one year, 1918, the average life expectancy in America plummeted by a dozen years.

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