Is there any (trustworthy) documentation on how people reacted after the Spanish Flu killed all those people last century? Did they have this same cultish behavior afterwards, or did everyone try to get on with their lives? I know you can get concentrated pockets of crazies here and there, but this level of wide-spread worship could only happen with 24/7 broadcasting.
Based on what I’ve learned about people who lived before us, they mostly just accepted that people died from all kinds of things and there was nothing you could do about it.
The most common age of death throughout human history was less than one year old. I doubt the Spanish Flu registered more than a small blip on most people’s radar.
People as a whole were less histrionic. Today's people are more animalistic and impulsive. The west's cultural decline reflects on the psychology of the general population.
Not my specialization, but from what I understand the rich went hypochondriac. If someone coughed they were fired. They didn't know how germs worked at the time so a lot of older methods were used that probably spread it further. Hospitals were not trusted because they didn't really understand cleaning instruments yet, or even how to treat things correctly.
So, they would group anyone they thought had the flu in the same building and wait for them to die while the nurses treated them without masks. Meanwhile, the rest of the world was busier with empires trying to expand and not being able to without taking out others. World War I. A small scandal in finances happened during this time, but it's barely remembered today. It was a lot like COVID I guess.
Probably not lol. The issues with comfortability culture is that people get all whacked out when they have to live with anything less than utter dopamine bliss.
Is there any (trustworthy) documentation on how people reacted after the Spanish Flu killed all those people last century? Did they have this same cultish behavior afterwards, or did everyone try to get on with their lives? I know you can get concentrated pockets of crazies here and there, but this level of wide-spread worship could only happen with 24/7 broadcasting.
Based on what I’ve learned about people who lived before us, they mostly just accepted that people died from all kinds of things and there was nothing you could do about it.
The most common age of death throughout human history was less than one year old. I doubt the Spanish Flu registered more than a small blip on most people’s radar.
People as a whole were less histrionic. Today's people are more animalistic and impulsive. The west's cultural decline reflects on the psychology of the general population.
Not my specialization, but from what I understand the rich went hypochondriac. If someone coughed they were fired. They didn't know how germs worked at the time so a lot of older methods were used that probably spread it further. Hospitals were not trusted because they didn't really understand cleaning instruments yet, or even how to treat things correctly.
So, they would group anyone they thought had the flu in the same building and wait for them to die while the nurses treated them without masks. Meanwhile, the rest of the world was busier with empires trying to expand and not being able to without taking out others. World War I. A small scandal in finances happened during this time, but it's barely remembered today. It was a lot like COVID I guess.
Probably not lol. The issues with comfortability culture is that people get all whacked out when they have to live with anything less than utter dopamine bliss.
Perhaps they were a little distracted by the Spanish Civil War that came sometime later.
(I realize its origins were most likely Kentucky rather than Iberia).
it was china.