It’s been a hard year for all. Half a million Americans have died from Covid. I think of the hundreds of thousands of families that have lost someone. But it’s not just Covid19 deaths, I have lost four relatives in … Continue reading →
It has been 11 months since Covid19 started shutting things down. I am tired of people not taking COVID seriously. I’m amazed that there are still people who don’t recognize that they also breathe through their noses. They … Continue reading →
PLEASE NOTE THIS WEB PAGE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO DETERMINE IF YOU HAVE COVID-19 OR WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IF YOU SUSPECT YOU HAVE COVID-19. ALWAYS GO TO A DOCTOR WITH YOUR QUESTIONS. There has been a lot of … Continue reading →
The Los Angeles Times published an article on April 19, 2020, entitled “California lessons from the 1918 pandemic: San Francisco dithered; Los Angeles acted and saved lives” Here’s my summary: In the current COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco was about a … Continue reading →
How U.S. Cities Tried to Halt the Spread of the Spanish Flu In the late summer/early fall of 1918 the second wave of the Spanish flu arrived in the US. St Louis put strong social distancing rules in place early. … Continue reading →
The best source of information about the Spanish Flu I have found – short of a book – is the Wikipedia Spanish Flu page. The Spanish Flu had three pandemic waves, which is shown on this chart of the weekly … Continue reading →