An overwhelmed healthcare system and thousands of deaths.
The parallels are eerily similar to the COVID-19 pandemic–in 1918 the Spanish Lady came calling…the Spanish Flu. The pandemic spread across the globe, killing somewhere between 20-50 million. Kip Tabb, writing for the Coastal Review Online, tells the story of when the last pandemic came calling on eastern North Carolina.
“In April, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the national COVID-19 task force, called out shaking hands as a particularly dangerous custom that should be relegated to the past.
“ I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you,” he said in a Wall Street Journal podcast. “Not only would it be good to prevent coronavirus disease — it probably would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country.”
It was not the first time in our nation’s history that the custom had been called into question.”
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