Flu Symptoms 2011

1. Rubym says:

   January 23, 2011 at 7:22 am

   In some ways, but there are great differences, too. The flu broke out during the war, swept through battlefields and field hospitals. So far there has not been huge outbreaks in Iraq and Afghanistan, I don’t think. |

   This economy is probably the worst since the depression, but hopefully is getting better faster. The stock market fell in the fall of 1929, Roosevelt took office in March of 1933, during that time the stock market and economy just kept getting worse. The stock market crashed in Sept. 2008 and kept going down for a time, but at least the Stock Market seems to be doing better. It might take years to recover housing, etc. But things are not as bad all over as in the 1930′s, but not good.

   And the Swine Flu is fortunately, at this point, other than the outbreak in Mexico this spring nothing like the 1918 pandemic.In 1918, there were people dying in the streets, virtually no family was untouched in the US. Many people died within a day or two after coming down with it. There are antivirals now, there was nothing but ‘whiskey and aspirin’ in 1918.
2. Bilbo says:

   January 23, 2011 at 7:54 am

   Give over – there is moderate swing to the right, but nothing like the rise of Fascism across Europe. We have institutions like the EU and UN which are by no means perfect but a distinct improvent over what was happening then. The post war era was more to do with the final death throes of the agricultural depression as the country went from an arable economy to an industrial one and power was gradually wrested from the old aristocracy (whose young danced the night away and try to ignore the whole sorry business) to the new business barons – with the emergence of a new middle class, fuelled by higher expectations of the returning soldiers.
3. greg W says:

   January 23, 2011 at 8:02 am

   Its different, back then America was still a mostly undeveloped country with a vast amount of oil and other resources. Today all we have is a bunch of illegal Mexicans and poor black people without anything for them to do but back then their were so many jobs and things to do we didnt even care who you were or where you came from you had a job. No days they get on a computer look back 20 years and pick up the phone and review your resume even for the chance to get even a job washing dishes.
4. MartinR says:

   January 23, 2011 at 8:23 am

   I wouldn’t say that… first of all there’s not a big revolution anywhere, like soviet revolution in 1917. Second, the economic crisis is similar in several ways, but not in the cause and of course, not in the effects. Third, with the lack of a big leftist threat, the right wing is not going to radicalization as happened in Italy, Germany and Spain.