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Posted by Tiptree (Member # 844) on 03-14-2020, 04:12 PM:

I urge y'all to take a look at this infographic.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/

Posted by MountainMafia (Member # 2066) on 03-14-2020, 08:24 PM:

Yeah, but....
Link

Posted by rlt4uk (Member # 3194) on 03-18-2020, 12:46 AM:

Informative reading, thanks to both of you.

Posted by PaulCat (Member # 513) on 03-18-2020, 07:31 AM:

With all the closings and shutdowns, are we as a nation stopping the virus, or just slowing down the inevitable? If the answer is that we're just slowing it down, is that worse for the economy or better? Everything I've read tells me this virus is (for the most part) just lethal to people with underlying health conditions, same as many other viruses that have been around for years.

Posted by clydeh (Member # 7) on 03-18-2020, 08:26 AM:

I have an appointment to see my regular doctor at 10:30 this morning for a follow-up of a myocardial infarction that happened in December. I would usually not be concerned about this, even in the flu season, but all the news and hype has me concerned. I do plan on going to the appointment, but I will not pick up magazines or the Bible in the waiting room to read while I am there. I did have the Asian flu in 1957 when I was in college at Harding College in Arkansas, and had no complications, but many of us were hospitalized because we were living in dorms and had no one to care for us otherwise

Posted by clydeh (Member # 7) on 03-19-2020, 02:40 PM:

There were no other patients in his waiting room. He said many people were concerned about the virus and were not coming to see him.

Posted by MountainMafia (Member # 2066) on 03-19-2020, 04:30 PM:

Can't say I blame 'em....Doc probably don't either.

Posted by handycat (Member # 2323) on 03-19-2020, 04:41 PM:

Dr Clyde, hope your appointment went well.

[ 03-19-2020, 04:42 PM: Message edited by: handycat ]

Posted by clydeh (Member # 7) on 03-19-2020, 07:35 PM:

Thanks, Handycat.

He says I am doing well enough, but he just does not want me to do anything much.

Posted by Tiptree (Member # 844) on 03-19-2020, 10:51 PM:

Good news, Clydeh. My local healthcare group has cancelled most routine appointments, the affiliated hospital has a black quarantine 'testing' tent in the parking lot, and they just confirmed the first case of COVID-19 today.

We are preparing for the apocolypse here in Terre Haute, Indiana. [Eek!]

Posted by clydeh (Member # 7) on 03-20-2020, 11:14 AM:

I was a student at Harding College in Arkansas in 1957 when the Asian flu was a big problem. Those of us who got the flu and were living in the dorms were hospitalized because we had no one to care for us. I don't think the United States made such a major reaction as now, but it might have been a good idea.

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 03-20-2020, 06:20 PM:

Clyde, I'm not the greatest mathematician in the world, but that easily puts you up into your 80's?

Posted by Old Norm (Member # 1482) on 03-20-2020, 06:42 PM:

I know exactly where Harding College is. When I go trout fishing near Heber Springs, I pass right by there. The town name is Searcy, but unless you pronounce it 'Sircy', the locals look at you like you are from another planet! I used to go 4 or 5 times a year, but since Millie is legally blind and can't drive, I can't leave her alone. I can get her sister or one of our daughters to come stay with her once or twice a year now. I plan on going next month if this danged virus has died down.

Posted by ukcatfannfl (Member # 1425) on 03-20-2020, 06:53 PM:

According to graphics posted elsewhere on tcd, the Asian flu killed up to 1.1 million worldwide..

Posted by clydeh (Member # 7) on 03-20-2020, 10:24 PM:

I am now eighty and will be eighty-one next month if I am still alive then.

Harding is a private school and my parents would usually not have the funds to send me to a private school. However, the tuition at that time was cheap and I did not know why until just recently.

Posted by Tiptree (Member # 844) on 03-21-2020, 08:28 AM:

I have a former colleague who graduated from Harding. I also know Harding professionally, as they use the software that I also supported in my role at Rose-Hulman (and I still support as a consultant).

Very nice college, highly regarded.

Why was the tuition cheap, Clydeh?

Posted by clydeh (Member # 7) on 03-21-2020, 10:54 AM:

Tip, I didn't know this information about Harding until a few years ago. I enjoy listening to the Harding chorus and can find them on the internet. One time I searched for the chorus, and when I clicked the name Harding chorus, a site came up entitled "Harding and Elvis".
Harding was a very conservative school when I was a student there, and I wondered if the school had been opposed to Elvis in some way.
However, when I later read the article, I learned that Harding owned a radio station in Memphis, and they had a young disc jockey and he played a song by Elvis before he was popular. Apparently this created much publicity for the station, and Harding sold it in 1954 for 3 million dollars. That was a huge amount of money at that time, and I assume that Harding used that money to decrease tuition.
I now jokingly tell people that Elvis sent me to Harding.

Posted by Tiptree (Member # 844) on 03-21-2020, 11:31 AM:

Ha! Great story. [Smile]

Yes, a $3M endowment in 1957 invested conservatively could be worth about $2.8B today. That could power a small college for a long, long time.

Posted by MEL (Member # 141) on 03-21-2020, 07:07 PM:

I hope that disk jockey got a nice raise !!!

MEL

[ 03-21-2020, 07:07 PM: Message edited by: MEL ]

Posted by clydeh (Member # 7) on 03-21-2020, 07:40 PM:

I don't know any of the details but he deserved a raise if he was still around. I was surprised when I saw the site "Harding and Elvis" that Harding did not protest or do something negative. I was a fan of Elvis at that time, but I didn't know anything about this history.