Nostalgia: The 1968 flu pandemic resulted in an estimated one million to four million deaths
July 1968 until 1969–70-no mask, lock downs, nor social distance. 1 WOODSTOCK
Jefferson wrote to William Stephens Smith on Nov. 13, 1787, about Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts. While Jefferson, who was living in France at the time, seemed to support that rebellion and other such violent uprisings, he also noted in his letter that such acts were often founded by ill-informed groups. The remedy to these uprisings, according to Jefferson, was to "set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them."
The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. yet where does this anarchy exist? where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? and can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. they were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. god forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. the people cannot be all, & always, well informed. the past which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive; if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure.
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We are old so we got shots. I would have anyway, I trust the bastards for some reason, I guess it's hope, so we each got two and we both just got over Covid. Was it bad? I felt like I had the flu for three days, stayed home until I was negative for a week after I got well, my wife went back to work after a week and wore the mask. Did the immunity system boost from the squirts make it go easier on our 68 year old asses? I hope so. It was not bad, but we were stressed for a minute. I did not, do not want to give it to anyone else so I squashed it good.I know I gotta go, but I want to handle it myself at the right time, like never. HA! If I had the flu in 68, it would have had to beat out measles, which I think I had that year, I got to stay home and listen to my sisters Monkees records until she got home. If I had the flu too, I forgot I did. Every kid in my house caught and recovered from Measles and Chicken Pox, it was part of childhood, that and getting your tonsils out, which you wanted for the ice cream you could eat all the time if you did it. I begged for it. I still have them. It's a miracle I do, the doctor gods cleaned up on that one.
I had the Hong Kong Flu in 1968, and it was a bad one. Not only was I sick with flu for weeks, but I had pneumonia afterwards. I was too dumb to go to the doctor, so I got over it without too much problem. Being 18 at the time helped, too, I'm sure. I was working in a little factory at the time, which was where I picked it up, and it went through the people there like lightning. I probably lost 20 pounds, and starting out at around 115, I was really skinny by the time I was well.