The 1918 Flu Pandemic - Fighting the Ghost - Part 4 - Extra History

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  • 📜 The 1918 Flu Pandemic: Fighting the Ghost Philadelphia gets hit the hardest. New York fares somewhat better, but everyone is trying to keep hush-hush about a pandemic that still found its way into a children's rhyme: influenza.
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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  Pƙed 5 lety +942

    By October 25th, the vaccine is ready. Express trains rush deliveries to the West Coast to protect troops and shipbuilders there. They’d made enough to vaccinate the entire US Army and its civilian employees... but *only* enough for the army.

    • @kikobobcat725
      @kikobobcat725 Pƙed 5 lety +2

      Extra Credits Y’all are amazing, I love this series. (Your dogs are so adorable)

    • @BillyMartin4Life
      @BillyMartin4Life Pƙed 5 lety +1

      You guys should do a series of video on Robert Moses, the man who did the most in transforming the physical landscape of New York and is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban development in the United States.

    • @Binks182
      @Binks182 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      Extra Credits sounds like it's the closest we've been to something like the bubonic plauge.

    • @Yoshimaster96smwc
      @Yoshimaster96smwc Pƙed 5 lety

      How many episodes are left?

    • @robertwalpole360
      @robertwalpole360 Pƙed 5 lety

      Hey, Mr. Wilson!

  • @bthsr7113
    @bthsr7113 Pƙed 4 lety +2271

    The similarities in the diseases... I can handle that.
    The overlaps in how people are responding... that's the really scary part.

    • @lessthanpinochet
      @lessthanpinochet Pƙed 4 lety +76

      Yeah it's disturbing.

    • @Tempusverum
      @Tempusverum Pƙed 4 lety +78

      TIME TO HOARD THE TOILET PAPER! A TISSUE! A TISSUE!

    • @dyslexofficial2798
      @dyslexofficial2798 Pƙed 4 lety +145

      Its almost like we learned nothing...

    • @liamdarnell6893
      @liamdarnell6893 Pƙed 4 lety +20

      @@dyslexofficial2798 yeah

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 Pƙed 4 lety +27

      Peopl and governments did learn, just not the one ruining things here.

  • @TheIronSavior
    @TheIronSavior Pƙed 4 lety +1020

    Jesus Christ. It's like this was written this year. Right down to the political plays.

    • @howlingwolf9906
      @howlingwolf9906 Pƙed 2 lety +16

      I have to say mate people on 1300's they does the same thing massive quartine no spit or coughing dont go to work(if they are allowed)

    • @Kurotaisa
      @Kurotaisa Pƙed 2 lety +21

      Time is a flat circle.

    • @bradymenting5120
      @bradymenting5120 Pƙed 2 lety +27

      yeah, I wish the US was that coordinated. now doctors have to fight the pandemic, the public, the politicians, and each other at the same time

    • @lukem5202
      @lukem5202 Pƙed 2 lety +6

      Except for the body count

    • @mchsprod
      @mchsprod Pƙed 2 lety +5

      @@howlingwolf9906 1300’s? This was WWI times

  • @Wingyy1995
    @Wingyy1995 Pƙed 4 lety +705

    "Nurses provide the most valuable care"
    Shout out to all the nurses, the real MVPs of the medical world for over 100 years!

    • @klauserji
      @klauserji Pƙed 3 lety +19

      every medical personell are MVPs

    • @yellowdiamond9669
      @yellowdiamond9669 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      PERIOD! Both my sisters are nurses one who works with immigrant children and my oldest sis working in ICU who both ate surrounded by those ill COVID-19. They still rocking even after one year of the beginning.

    • @mariustan9275
      @mariustan9275 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      Shoutout to those nurses.

  • @christal2641
    @christal2641 Pƙed 4 lety +483

    Why don't leaders realize that ONLY TRANSPARENCY MAKES THE POPULACE TRUST THE LEADERS.

    • @mara1978able
      @mara1978able Pƙed 4 lety +44

      Because they fear that they will lose power by being transparent.

    • @Zman201
      @Zman201 Pƙed 4 lety +31

      Because if they were truly transparent they populace would see hour corrupt and sketchy they are

    • @maliksmith3725
      @maliksmith3725 Pƙed 4 lety +5

      Who cares? The people don't think they can do anything even if they compiled all the evidence of corruption.

    • @sohamshah7638
      @sohamshah7638 Pƙed 4 lety +10

      Because there are people who spread misinformation this has potential to be much more devastation than the disease itself. Having a calm populace is important. Any panic and misinformation can make a "burning fire explode". Humans as individuals are unpredictable and as crowds are chaos.

    • @davidschaftenaar6530
      @davidschaftenaar6530 Pƙed 3 lety

      You only need transparency for those you don't trust.

  • @westtxtapper
    @westtxtapper Pƙed 5 lety +2186

    What really hits you about this pandemic is when you visit a cemetery and see how many graves are dated 1918 and 1919.

  • @Calboyoo
    @Calboyoo Pƙed 5 lety +1794

    The "bring out your dead" carts are something you expect to see in the medieval era, not only 100 years ago! That's insane!

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin Pƙed 5 lety +108

      This is eerily like the Black Death in 14th Century Europe, right down to fundamentalist preachers, telling everyone this is God's punishment for their sins

    • @Texan.Insomniac
      @Texan.Insomniac Pƙed 5 lety +21

      Collin Caulkins
      If that happens it probably would rival the amount of dead in WW2 in a fraction of the time

    • @LiteralGraphic
      @LiteralGraphic Pƙed 5 lety +22

      Reminded me of Monty Python

    • @525Lines
      @525Lines Pƙed 5 lety +9

      Diseases would roll through towns and kill hundreds and this was going on right up to WW2 in the US. People with communicable sickness in their homes during these plague conditions would put display black flags at their door.

    • @cerealkiller7143
      @cerealkiller7143 Pƙed 5 lety +9

      These carts were present in Athens during German occupation collecting those who starved to death.

  • @whimsy5623
    @whimsy5623 Pƙed 4 lety +296

    4:27 “... And held a mass prayer meeting to help end the epidemic”
    That uh... that’s not a good idea

    • @modelszmk.2930
      @modelszmk.2930 Pƙed 4 lety +29

      *boy do i have news for you...*

    • @somerandomperson2934
      @somerandomperson2934 Pƙed 4 lety +14

      Ironic. They could save others from the flu but not themselves

    • @dampst
      @dampst Pƙed 3 lety +6

      5:14 is the right timestamp

    • @ericap7446
      @ericap7446 Pƙed 3 lety +8

      ITS THE TELEVANGALIST! That actually happened at the start of the pandemic. Jesus Christ we never change

    • @mr.cramps2117
      @mr.cramps2117 Pƙed 3 lety

      Well maybe they were just taken out of the shithole that we call the world today? Lol. I can just imagine...

  • @christopherjustice6411
    @christopherjustice6411 Pƙed 4 lety +775

    They didn’t teach us anything about this in school. American public education is a joke.

    • @Mayday468
      @Mayday468 Pƙed 4 lety +46

      A lot of scenarios like this that are helped along by politics tend to be glossed over or simplifyed

    • @mrsoupsir7165
      @mrsoupsir7165 Pƙed 4 lety +23

      What government wants to teach about how they suck?

    • @6666Imperator
      @6666Imperator Pƙed 4 lety +22

      they didn't in Germany either. At least on this topic America behaves like other countries

    • @professionalshitpost4443
      @professionalshitpost4443 Pƙed 4 lety +7

      Christopher Justice my school was taught this in biology, anatomy, and history

    • @midimusicforever
      @midimusicforever Pƙed 4 lety +9

      The government obviously don't want to teach you to not trust the government.

  • @HxH2011DRA
    @HxH2011DRA Pƙed 5 lety +1855

    "The crowd tries to imagine what it's like to be in mortal peril. Little do they know they already are."
    *OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH SHIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

  • @stormydragon2668
    @stormydragon2668 Pƙed 5 lety +798

    I don't know why Woodrow Wilson is held in such high regard. Everything I learn about him just makes him seem like one of the worst Presidents ever.

    • @Cythil
      @Cythil Pƙed 5 lety +187

      I would not say he is the worst. But he is on my worst american president list for sure.

    • @rparl
      @rparl Pƙed 5 lety +98

      There are now new highths to scale.

    • @pliniomelo6295
      @pliniomelo6295 Pƙed 5 lety +23

      Cythil no one is worse then our boi Frankie Pierce

    • @koreanmochi9954
      @koreanmochi9954 Pƙed 5 lety +31

      How bout Herbert Hoover?

    • @joshuachandler1750
      @joshuachandler1750 Pƙed 5 lety +122

      I think the reason some people like him is due to wanting to go easy on Germany with Treaty of Versailles. They don't look into the other stuff.

  • @bbinkovitz
    @bbinkovitz Pƙed 4 lety +129

    Thinking about the nursing staff not only standing their ground but also rushing into the hardest hit areas, as their patients and even colleagues suffered and died all around them, deepens my conviction that we need to celebrate nurses at least as much as we celebrate and glorify the military, if not more.

    • @cowtaplayz8277
      @cowtaplayz8277 Pƙed rokem +1

      Nurses aren’t shot at, I would rather be sick than shot

    • @cowtaplayz8277
      @cowtaplayz8277 Pƙed rokem +1

      They also live in their local areas, u like soldiers who go through much worse conditions

    • @martinthedrainedsedlak
      @martinthedrainedsedlak Pƙed 6 měsĂ­ci +1

      ​@@cowtaplayz8277nurses don't die over meaningless soil and political disputes

    • @d.laveyyy
      @d.laveyyy Pƙed 2 měsĂ­ci +1

      @@cowtaplayz8277nurses take care of the shooting victims and are regularly shipped to different areas of distress during outbreaks. use your brain.

  • @tonykennedy1352
    @tonykennedy1352 Pƙed 4 lety +41

    It's crazy that 100 years later, with all the advances in medical science we still rely on the exact same approaches as they did in 1918

  • @epicsnail4614
    @epicsnail4614 Pƙed 5 lety +1242

    So there’s an outbreak which spreads by public meeting so everyone decides to go to one place and pray together

    • @davidday9967
      @davidday9967 Pƙed 5 lety +60

      HM 38 to pray they don't get sick.................

    • @fahyaz3643
      @fahyaz3643 Pƙed 5 lety +63

      HM 38 G E N I U S

    • @martinaustin6230
      @martinaustin6230 Pƙed 5 lety +139

      And 100 years later we still have people who don't believe in vaccines and think you can pray away sickness instead.

    • @fictionfan0
      @fictionfan0 Pƙed 5 lety +64

      I don't know if God has a sense of irony, but I can't help but imagine Him thinking at that point, "You were saying, William?"

    • @mambodog5322
      @mambodog5322 Pƙed 5 lety +4

      They tried.

  • @ludvercz
    @ludvercz Pƙed 5 lety +540

    You should seriously consider making those horses into plushies.

    • @math3000
      @math3000 Pƙed 5 lety +26

      ludvercz and the flu as well

    • @ludvercz
      @ludvercz Pƙed 5 lety +33

      Math After watching ep.5. I've come to the conclusion that what we need is the flu on horseback.

    • @pamgramster6672
      @pamgramster6672 Pƙed 5 lety +6

      I know they are so cute

    • @whitearabianhorses
      @whitearabianhorses Pƙed 5 lety +1

      Love ❀ the idea 💡!! Extra Credits horse 🐮 plushies!!

    • @sonofjack6286
      @sonofjack6286 Pƙed 4 lety

      Yeah

  • @CynicalHistorian
    @CynicalHistorian Pƙed 5 lety +49

    WILSOOON!!!!
    (he refused to act in far more influential circumstances the following year)

  • @mmmtsp
    @mmmtsp Pƙed 4 lety +77

    1918, President "fake news"
    2020, President "fake news"

  • @AqilDaiyan
    @AqilDaiyan Pƙed 5 lety +542

    That's it, I'm naming my bird Enza

    • @thesaladman8400
      @thesaladman8400 Pƙed 5 lety +27

      So that in the Aviary, in-flew-Enza.

    • @nagitokomaeda3237
      @nagitokomaeda3237 Pƙed 4 lety +22

      That was fucking creepy tho.

    • @ADEzor
      @ADEzor Pƙed 4 lety +4

      @@nagitokomaeda3237 I'm glad i wasn't the only one! [EDIT: Typos]

    • @Ghostdog15
      @Ghostdog15 Pƙed 4 lety +5

      You doomed us all

  • @alexandremagalhaes1774
    @alexandremagalhaes1774 Pƙed 5 lety +658

    I Opened up the window and
    in-flu-en-za!

    • @gracorossanigo4853
      @gracorossanigo4853 Pƙed 5 lety +84

      That part gave me chills

    • @alexandremagalhaes1774
      @alexandremagalhaes1774 Pƙed 5 lety +9

      Documentales express same here man

    • @borislavstoqnov5132
      @borislavstoqnov5132 Pƙed 5 lety +47

      For some reason i pictured in my mind 2 twin girls in a darkened room singing this to me... with dead eyes and blue skin...
      Damn my imagination!
      It is 11pm here! Thanks for the sleepless night EC!

    • @mambodog5322
      @mambodog5322 Pƙed 5 lety +11

      Remains of past dark humour, might be a first.

    • @FamusJamus
      @FamusJamus Pƙed 5 lety +13

      That comment alongside that avatar made it look like Aku created the flu to mess with people.

  • @Googledeservestodie
    @Googledeservestodie Pƙed 3 lety +35

    I've rewatched this whole series a good 100 times during the 2020 quarantine. I still shout and swear every time a similarity like staggered entry or wearing mask comes up because it's just a reminder that history is the greatest oracle, but no one listens.

  • @gzer0x
    @gzer0x Pƙed 4 lety +91

    I watched this a long time ago, I studied 1918 in college. I’m crying while watching this right now. We have no federal leadership in 2020 and it’s too familiar.

    • @thalastianjorus
      @thalastianjorus Pƙed 11 měsĂ­ci +2

      I know that this is 3 years late, but:
      America is not _supposed_ to have "leaders" in the Federal government. They are supposed to have representatives that debate representatives from elsewhere - in order to push the interests of each state. That's all. They were never meant to be leaders. Hence why Washington settled on the title President - like the President of your local sporting club. A chairman. Someone that ensures the meetings, legislation, etc goes smoothly. That's all. The same applies to the House and Senate.
      What America is _supposed_ to have is a well informed public. Men and women that pay enough attention, listen enough, and keep up to date with current affairs in order to lead themselves. This concept died in the Antebellum years - the Government did not realize that society abandoned this idea until the 40s.

  • @rtaraquin
    @rtaraquin Pƙed 5 lety +339

    Why is the Statue of Liberty fighting a pickle?

    • @Overhazard
      @Overhazard Pƙed 5 lety +18

      Why is the doctor fighting a phantom?

    • @presqueezedlemons7170
      @presqueezedlemons7170 Pƙed 5 lety +21

      Well, obviously, ugh, pickles are the real killer in the world. Not diabetes, not vending machines, not pathogens. Just pickled cucumbers, commonly known as pickles. The strain is known as can-o-cucsitius, and suffocates the victim through thin, breakable, choke-prone slices that will tear lung lining, initiating internal bleeding,oxygen holes which cause strokes because of lack of air, and satisfy all hunger.

    • @theauralucario60
      @theauralucario60 Pƙed 4 lety +3

      @CharlyTDM07
      genuine woosh

    • @garyshaffer6591
      @garyshaffer6591 Pƙed 4 lety

      I asked the same thing lol

    • @AdventureOtaku
      @AdventureOtaku Pƙed 4 lety +5

      It’s in the next episode. The pickle wars.

  • @NailGunZero
    @NailGunZero Pƙed 5 lety +118

    The jump rope rhyme gonna haunt me.

  • @breaderikthegreat3224
    @breaderikthegreat3224 Pƙed 2 lety +7

    1920:Government doesn't give a fuck
    2020:People don't give a fuck

  • @ElementOfSmash
    @ElementOfSmash Pƙed 4 lety +69

    Many have pointed out already that history repeats itself. And the response is definitely chilling. But if nothing else, at least this reassures me that history will not look kindly on the people perpetuating and ignoring the disease.

    • @rick7424
      @rick7424 Pƙed rokem +2

      "While the pathogen may be new, the modes of human response are not."

    • @EndymionMhr
      @EndymionMhr Pƙed rokem

      As long as a person who is not stupid is writing history those who perpetuate and ignore diseases will not be seen in any good light

  • @walpol3
    @walpol3 Pƙed 5 lety +557

    Damnit Wilson, how many times did i tell you to stop the ships?! Ugh, some people...

    • @ottoleois9323
      @ottoleois9323 Pƙed 5 lety +14

      It was Walpole WILLSOON!

    • @mrpellagra2730
      @mrpellagra2730 Pƙed 5 lety

      Shut up Walpole, it is good that did not happened.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean Pƙed 5 lety +9

      Sounds like someone else here watches the Cynical Historian. Huh, people being fans of _multiple_ CZcams history content creators?

    • @mrpellagra2730
      @mrpellagra2730 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      Timothy McLean Who is Cynical Historian ?

    • @walpol3
      @walpol3 Pƙed 5 lety

      Daniel Tsiprun i probably used reverse psychology on him without even knowing

  • @walpol3
    @walpol3 Pƙed 5 lety +613

    Philadelphia: where everything dies

    • @thechief00
      @thechief00 Pƙed 5 lety +18

      doesn't matter, eagles won the super bowl

    • @sitdownlad7918
      @sitdownlad7918 Pƙed 5 lety +10

      Don't pretend like you have nothing to do with it

    • @walpol3
      @walpol3 Pƙed 5 lety +11

      zzyzx00 yeah, but America as a whole has never actually lost a superbowl so... victory basically rotates between different states

    • @walpol3
      @walpol3 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      Sit down, lad ;)

    • @walpol3
      @walpol3 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      Prussian Eagle on the playground that’s where i spent most of my days

  • @deniseeulert5220
    @deniseeulert5220 Pƙed 3 lety +20

    I remember my grandfather, who was in Kansas City, telling me about seeing trainloads of sick soldiers coming in. Hospitals ran out of room. The boarding house where he lived had a guy who was ill, and being taking care of by the house operator.

  • @jaydevsirmukaddam757
    @jaydevsirmukaddam757 Pƙed 4 lety +5

    I love how clock shows a subtle 4:20 reference at 2:19

  • @Jian13
    @Jian13 Pƙed 5 lety +279

    Oooh! So that's why "no spitting" laws exist.

  • @owenw.1643
    @owenw.1643 Pƙed 5 lety +517

    jesus christ, i had no idea it was this bad. and only 100 years ago? jesus christ.

    • @themadhammer3305
      @themadhammer3305 Pƙed 5 lety +58

      o m just now falling out of living memory, and with anti vaxxers becoming more of a thing we might actually see this happen again

    • @duck1ente
      @duck1ente Pƙed 5 lety +14

      We just need an airborne ebola and say goodbye to the world

    • @chrisforsyth8323
      @chrisforsyth8323 Pƙed 5 lety +7

      The 1918 epidemic was basically this in any case. Also, the strain is still active in swine. You'd recognize the label. Sleep tight!

    • @themadhammer3305
      @themadhammer3305 Pƙed 5 lety +2

      Chris Forsyth yay I needed some new nightmare fuel, thanks dude ;)

    • @KennethSee
      @KennethSee Pƙed 4 lety +8

      And now coronavirus is spreading around the world as I type this.

  • @Artemis-zl5cs
    @Artemis-zl5cs Pƙed 5 lety +335

    MOBILIZE THE NUNS

    • @q345ify
      @q345ify Pƙed 5 lety +24

      Brides of Christ ASSEMBLE!!!!!!

    • @elvellarambles9151
      @elvellarambles9151 Pƙed 5 lety +19

      Demi PAGING ALL THE PRIESTS

    • @erinmoody9892
      @erinmoody9892 Pƙed 5 lety +13

      Demi lets get down to business to defeat ...... influenza?

    • @KennethSee
      @KennethSee Pƙed 4 lety

      @Himalayan Duck I sang that in my head. Thank you friend.

    • @Albert_Bruhno
      @Albert_Bruhno Pƙed 3 lety

      *ME N THE LADS BEATING INFLUENZA TO DEATH*

  • @jackotrades0888
    @jackotrades0888 Pƙed 2 lety +10

    Nurses deserve so much more respect than they get

  • @killerOfMoons
    @killerOfMoons Pƙed 5 lety +399

    WILSON!!!!!! *Shakes fists at sky*

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean Pƙed 5 lety +26

      Sounds like someone else watches the Cynical Historian's videos.
      Weird...multiple people on an Extra History video being fans of the same CZcams historian?

    • @PersianMapper
      @PersianMapper Pƙed 5 lety +5

      He's talking about Wilson the volleyball in cast away.

    • @tonlito22
      @tonlito22 Pƙed 5 lety +11

      Glad people are coming around on Wilson being *the worst*. Only wish it wasn't that credulous Russophile that got them there.

    • @farzet3937
      @farzet3937 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      Persian Mapper Nah he’s obviously talking about Woodrow Wilson on this video

    • @miscspice
      @miscspice Pƙed 5 lety +2

      The new VIRAL meme

  • @sars910
    @sars910 Pƙed 5 lety +99

    And then Woodrow Wilson died of the same Spanish Flu.
    Ironic isn't it ?

    • @Carewolf
      @Carewolf Pƙed 5 lety +12

      Not really. I would be dramatic irony if it was a play, but in reality it is just, just deserts.

    • @sars910
      @sars910 Pƙed 5 lety +7

      Carewolf Isn't hindsight just a bloody great thing ? He was the cause of his own death

    • @yousefghuniem5575
      @yousefghuniem5575 Pƙed 5 lety +14

      Woodrow Wilson: Push in France, this flu ain't got crap on me
      Woodrow Wilson:*cough*
      Woodrow Wilson: Mother FU-

    • @sheepbeeps3369
      @sheepbeeps3369 Pƙed 2 lety

      Well it's believed a mild form might've been what had him in the sick-bed half the time during the peace conference.

  • @Nullzeros
    @Nullzeros Pƙed 4 lety +122

    Why does it seem there are many parallels between this and the 2019nCoV? I hope we have learned from the past because those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. I believe that is paraphrased from George Santayana.

    • @Falloutwiz21
      @Falloutwiz21 Pƙed 4 lety +20

      Yeah that is still happening. Exactly what happened here with minimizing the disease is happening now. Its scary. Schools dont teach the 1918 flu epidemic. I guess its not important enough.

    • @johnmonk9167
      @johnmonk9167 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      About that...

    • @jh5588
      @jh5588 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      John Monk I wonder if the military has a Covid-19 vaccine just for themselves for now

    • @glintoflightonbrokenglass9473
      @glintoflightonbrokenglass9473 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      No, there aren't. Bodies piled up in 1918, in houses and streets. Here in America, the streets are clear of bodies. And no, that's not because of the measures taken, because the Spanish Flu got in to those who did so anyway...which means, if CV19 were anywhere near as deadly, quarantine is a death sentence.

    • @GiordanDiodato
      @GiordanDiodato Pƙed 3 lety +3

      "What we learn from history is that no one learns from history" -Otto von Bismarck

  • @CeriTsujimura
    @CeriTsujimura Pƙed 5 lety +129

    "And in flew Enza"
    *WHEEEEEEEEEEEZE*

  • @SpecterVonBaren
    @SpecterVonBaren Pƙed 5 lety +19

    There were also too few nurses at this time because agencies like the Red Cross refused to train lower level nurses when first asked in preparation for any kind of outbreak before this pandemic even started because they felt it would demean the importance of nurses to have such quickly trained people representing them.

  • @lorddelafunk
    @lorddelafunk Pƙed 4 lety +5

    The "Seriously Don't Go Line Dancing" @4:14 is probably my favorite visual gag that you guys have done so far.

  • @ZeldagigafanMatthew
    @ZeldagigafanMatthew Pƙed 4 lety +9

    "I opened a window and in flew enza" OMFG, that got a strong chuckle out of me.

  • @crayonviking
    @crayonviking Pƙed 4 lety +232

    A pandemic spreads, but the president refuses to do something? Sounds familiar...

    • @DarthMalevolence66
      @DarthMalevolence66 Pƙed 4 lety +8

      The Chinese president? Yeah pretty much.

    • @jamesduque880
      @jamesduque880 Pƙed 4 lety +7

      Yeah, china's president

    • @Justanotherconsumer
      @Justanotherconsumer Pƙed 4 lety +38

      Finding some other country to blame?
      Sounds familiar...

    • @DarthMalevolence66
      @DarthMalevolence66 Pƙed 4 lety +5

      @@Justanotherconsumer you mean China saying the virus started in the US? Yeah ikr?

    • @Justanotherconsumer
      @Justanotherconsumer Pƙed 4 lety +27

      Darth Malevolence nope, not what I meant, but please continue. The desperate attempts at finger pointing are amusing.

  • @netslayeruk
    @netslayeruk Pƙed 5 lety +78

    Those church people.
    It's like they're a church squad of action heroes.
    "Screw it, call in the Church"

    • @surrenderfire6029
      @surrenderfire6029 Pƙed 5 lety +16

      NetSlayerUK when there’s something demonic in your neighborhood who you gonna call Catholic Church!

    • @christal2641
      @christal2641 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      Who else would be so brave in the face of quick death?

    • @Tempusverum
      @Tempusverum Pƙed 4 lety +3

      *WHO YA GONNA CALL?!?!!*
      *NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!”

  • @coldestsun2095
    @coldestsun2095 Pƙed 5 lety +23

    Twin peaks reference + synchronized singing = audio jumpscare

  • @yourmother3212
    @yourmother3212 Pƙed 4 lety +27

    Coronavirus when asked about this video: Oh yeah I remember him. He is a well known member of the family. He is retired now, but I am following in his footsteps. I looked up to him as a bacteria. But now it is my time to shine!

  • @drippigeon9615
    @drippigeon9615 Pƙed 3 lety +5

    “Wear mask, stay in quarantine” why does this sound a little familiar?

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 Pƙed 5 lety +27

    5:45 Don’t do that ever again.

  • @LostSwiftpaw
    @LostSwiftpaw Pƙed 5 lety +272

    0:40
    *This is fine*

  • @lilin7049
    @lilin7049 Pƙed 3 lety +12

    5:02 we need this in the US please

  • @hawkfeather5408
    @hawkfeather5408 Pƙed 5 lety +8

    I remember when I contracted the flu during the H1N1 epidemic.
    I felt dead, I couldn't move from my bed because my body felt like lead, and I always felt cold.
    I can't imagine living through this time.

  • @zacharyt.4348
    @zacharyt.4348 Pƙed 5 lety +22

    +Extra Credits I've really enjoyed this series about the Spanish Flu! I've been a lover about learning history, but many things are overlooked and forgotten in the public school system. I took AP United States History just last year, and all the book had was exactly two measly paragraphs saying "yea, lotta people died" basically.

  • @Mari-hb5do
    @Mari-hb5do Pƙed 4 lety +16

    100 years later and history is now repeating itself...

  • @gokuxsephiroth4505
    @gokuxsephiroth4505 Pƙed rokem +6

    Ngl, that cop shooting someone for not wearing a mask probably lived the fantasy of a hundred thousand retail workers in our current pandemic.

  • @KendrixTermina
    @KendrixTermina Pƙed 5 lety +78

    And this was the part of the world that *wasn't* in complete chaos.

    • @yahhav345
      @yahhav345 Pƙed 5 lety

      KendrixTermina emmm.... Define "cheos"...

    • @KendrixTermina
      @KendrixTermina Pƙed 5 lety +8

      Well, they probably had less infrastructure to dispense medicine, order quarantaine etc over in Europe where everything was reduced to rubble
      Granted, any situation where you have a plague andthe resulting paranoia with a dose of uncaring leadership doesn't qualify as "non-chaos" either

    • @krim7
      @krim7 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      Europe was not reduced to rubble. At least not in the west. That would come in WWII

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 Pƙed 5 lety

      Next episode we move back to Europe it seems.

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      Europe's economy is in ruins due to the war. Northwest France looks like the surface of the moon with all the inhabitants displaced. Easter European countries is a massive battleground where Germany and Russia keeps pushing each other back in massive offensives. Albeit Russia is defeated at this point, but the damage is still there. The more fluid nature of the Eastern front definitely left more cities in chaos.
      Serbia is attacked from all sides so it is also in chaos.
      I'd say it is chaotic enough when compared to US.

  • @jarandom181
    @jarandom181 Pƙed 5 lety +11

    Thank you for including the lifesaving work that nurses do! We are educated medical professionals and are not often portrayed that way.

  • @kmart1396
    @kmart1396 Pƙed 5 lety +7

    Honestly bless anyone who throughout history was a nurse and anyone who is currently a nurse. Like y'all so important and just do amazing work for the population's health at large

  • @fanstalingibs5585
    @fanstalingibs5585 Pƙed 4 lety +8

    New York during the Flu Pandemic: *Let me show you how it's done.*
    New York during COVID-19: *LeT mE sHoW yOu hOw iTs DoNe-*

  • @kimjongunofficialyoutube
    @kimjongunofficialyoutube Pƙed 5 lety +18

    I live in Cleveland which was relatively badly hit too, being a major port city on the lakes. There is a cemetery near my house and you really do notice how many graves are dated 1918-1919

  • @KmanK
    @KmanK Pƙed 4 lety +73

    This sounds very very familiar...

    • @AegixDrakan
      @AegixDrakan Pƙed 3 lety +2

      That's because you have pattern recognition. Something a lot of people apparently are lacking.

  • @jenniferalysee6880
    @jenniferalysee6880 Pƙed 4 lety +5

    Oh man watching this in March 2020 from quarantine. This similarities are crazy.

  • @SmoothTerumi
    @SmoothTerumi Pƙed 5 lety +16

    5:38 Nice Twin Peaks reference

  • @larissarosendale9160
    @larissarosendale9160 Pƙed 5 lety +25

    Was that Killer BOB?! Alright, I understand the scope, scale and fear of the 1918 flu, now.

  • @Verbeley
    @Verbeley Pƙed 5 lety +131

    Those cliffhangers are killing me XD
    Also US president not responding to pandemic, that doesn't sound familiar at all.
    (Though I'm pretty sure it's not just an American thing...)

    • @ashleymartin2797
      @ashleymartin2797 Pƙed 5 lety +8

      Ikr the cliffhangers this series are amazing. The last time the endings were this good was the Justinian series.

    • @fictionfan0
      @fictionfan0 Pƙed 5 lety +7

      Keep in mind, throughout this series, we've seen plenty of people from every nationality basically say, "Nah, that would never happen."

    • @jonahfalcon1970
      @jonahfalcon1970 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      Wilson got the flu as well.

    • @bthsr7113
      @bthsr7113 Pƙed 4 lety +8

      I've got horrendous news.

    • @jh5588
      @jh5588 Pƙed 4 lety +3

      Covid-19 enters the chat

  • @thinaharran
    @thinaharran Pƙed 4 lety +11

    Over a century later, history seems to repeats itself.

  • @levigarrett6884
    @levigarrett6884 Pƙed 4 lety +219

    I'm watching this because of the Coronavirus.

    • @stalincat2457
      @stalincat2457 Pƙed 4 lety +7

      *takes the next seat and coughs*

    • @chromatic_fate7114
      @chromatic_fate7114 Pƙed 4 lety +5

      Same

    • @doppelhelixes
      @doppelhelixes Pƙed 4 lety +3

      *cought*

    • @foxsparrow8973
      @foxsparrow8973 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      Arnt we all

    • @idealicfool
      @idealicfool Pƙed 4 lety +3

      I'm watching this because I'm subscribed. COVID-19 is weak compared to the common flu and any uncommon cold. coronavirus is just a cold. When a variant jumps from animal to human as woth this ot can be bad, but compared to saars this really isnt anything. A vary high rate of contagion yes but a very low rate of death. Sheeple are freaking out over nothing.

  • @sanguiniusonvacation1803
    @sanguiniusonvacation1803 Pƙed 5 lety +116

    BRING OUT YOUR DEAD.....BRING OUT YOUR DEAD....BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!

    • @Ravenforce3
      @Ravenforce3 Pƙed 5 lety +5

      "Here you go."
      "Nine pence."

    • @chaoznorder6207
      @chaoznorder6207 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      I'm not dead yet, I feel fine.

    • @SpoopySquid
      @SpoopySquid Pƙed 5 lety +3

      ChaozN order you're not fooling anyone

    • @uyuman1
      @uyuman1 Pƙed 5 lety +2

      Watched this just after watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

    • @jakedebarr9675
      @jakedebarr9675 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      "I'm NoT dEaD" b o n k

  • @germanreenacters
    @germanreenacters Pƙed 5 lety +62

    I’m still waiting on a Russo-Japanese war series. Anyhow keep up the good work.

  • @oscarbelmare_22
    @oscarbelmare_22 Pƙed 3 lety +6

    Coffin Companies In 1918: Business is Boomin!
    Coffin Companies In 2020: Business is Boomin!

  • @consumerofbepsi5254
    @consumerofbepsi5254 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    spanish influenza: happens
    coffin companys: *we're rich!*

    • @NoName-hg6cc
      @NoName-hg6cc Pƙed rokem

      Employee in such company: *cough*
      Coffin company: "Oh no, we're dead!"

  • @royalstarfish17
    @royalstarfish17 Pƙed 3 lety +3

    102 years later.... Nothing changed. Except we now have the internet.

  • @miltonandrescastillogarcia5355

    Philadelphia didn't stop the parade and everyone got sick.
    Now in Spain no one stopped the parades the 8 of May and now they are shutting down schools because the Coronavirus cases skyrocket.
    God, why do we never learn from history?

    • @righthandstep5
      @righthandstep5 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      People are stupid

    • @Goodiesfanful
      @Goodiesfanful Pƙed 2 lety

      Authorities fail to take immediate action against anti-mandate protests making illegal occupations and let them drag on for weeks before stopping them, and now omicron is skyrocketing.

  • @TexadaIslandRocks
    @TexadaIslandRocks Pƙed 3 lety +5

    "I opened up the window and in flew enza" lol even throughout time kids will always be savages!

  • @tripleh327
    @tripleh327 Pƙed 11 měsĂ­ci +3

    I am a doctor in Italy
    I remember the long nightmare of the first wave of Covid
    The fear the isolation
    Our prime minister blocking the entire country
    Complete lockdown
    while the world watched us holding its breath
    And the struggle to finds beds for everyone
    And the coffins
    We ran out of space
    In one iconic moment we had to ask the army to come with trucks
    That image was only the herald of what Covid will do to the entire world in the next months
    This video is painful to watch
    I have lost coworkers and colleagues during the long fight
    I personally was infected twice

  • @influenza3736
    @influenza3736 Pƙed 5 lety +377

    Danke, Deutschland!

  • @Tfichtenbaum
    @Tfichtenbaum Pƙed 3 lety +11

    This is scary how this is too similar to what is happening currently with the COVID virus , 100 years later we havent learned :(

  • @bloodiwolf
    @bloodiwolf Pƙed 3 lety +9

    I'm re-watching this... and I'm crying, for the people today, behaves the same way as then.

  • @xSiKToXinzZ
    @xSiKToXinzZ Pƙed 4 lety +13

    Anyone else watching this during the covid-19 outbreak? I wasn’t concerned but now I’m terrified

    • @Bogwedgle
      @Bogwedgle Pƙed 4 lety +1

      Don't be scared, just be aware of it. covid-19 is much less lethal, deaths are usually older people and medical care/quarantine procedures are much better. So long as you take sensible precautions like washing your hands regularly and minimising contact with sick people, you'll be fine. covid-19 is bad but it's nowhere near spanish flu bad.

    • @farmerjoe124
      @farmerjoe124 Pƙed 4 lety

      There is SO many things different about the world now. There were 16,000 deaths from spanish flu in philedhphia alone, and the covid19 worldwide deaths aren't even close to that.

    • @martianunlimited
      @martianunlimited Pƙed 3 lety

      Never make predictions during outbreaks :)

    • @koolmckool7039
      @koolmckool7039 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@farmerjoe124 Want to amend your statement now?

    • @kayzar293
      @kayzar293 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@farmerjoe124 this ages well

  • @Thefuryspeed100
    @Thefuryspeed100 Pƙed 5 lety +5

    This is horrible
    To think that a loved one could die and all that can be done is to put it on a bag and drop it in a cementery crushes my heart

  • @alexie832
    @alexie832 Pƙed 4 lety +28

    9:24 A president who barely helped his own people......boy does that sound to familiar....

  • @lucaskincanyon7393
    @lucaskincanyon7393 Pƙed 5 lety +3

    That jump rope rhyme was the freakiest thing I’ve ever heard on this chapter...

  • @uglyorchestracraftsdowamat1637

    I was watching your videos and looking at current events I have only one question...
    Why THE HELL have we not learned from past pandemics LIKE THIS!?!?

    • @WoeUponThee
      @WoeUponThee Pƙed 2 lety

      And people in 2120 wouldn’t learn from our mistakes in this pandemic unless our people do something, it’s kinda sad to see history repeat itself like how it has recently.

  • @ryan-2078
    @ryan-2078 Pƙed 5 lety +25

    That song made me die inside

    • @gamewatch6861
      @gamewatch6861 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      Ryan Tang You’re not the only one. I found that rhyme creepy.

  • @bobbyferg9173
    @bobbyferg9173 Pƙed 5 lety +12

    People look at how terrible World War One was to the men in the trenches and how the leaders of these nations seemed to not care for their lives at all. But in the name of war so many leaders would risk the lives of thousands of civilians just to keep up productivity.
    You could argue as to whether or not that won the war but the millions who died unnecessarily was definitely not justified.

  • @decommissionedunitnanotech2265

    The outro music was so perfect for the video. As the flu would defeat the body thus making the body go to a cytokine storm. In which, the outro song's name is Cytokine Storm

  • @AtlasNovack
    @AtlasNovack Pƙed 5 lety +6

    The influenza rhyme is gonna give me nightmares.

  • @hungrymusicwolf
    @hungrymusicwolf Pƙed 5 lety +28

    I loved hearing about the good the church CAN do when they are not busy fighting to preserve themselves.

    • @spindash64
      @spindash64 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      Church as of late has definitely not been in a good state. caught up in internal politics, and lashing out against Moral relativism

    • @mondocool5670
      @mondocool5670 Pƙed 5 lety +7

      Church's organizations are usually very involved in all kinds of community service as well as disaster relief, both local and overseas too

    • @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462
      @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      You mean Public Image. Nothing wrong with self-preservation. You can't save anyone if you don't save yourself.

  • @andrewnewman5945
    @andrewnewman5945 Pƙed 4 lety +14

    Nobody:
    Priests and Cops in Philly: Bring out your dead!

  • @Mr.Williams23
    @Mr.Williams23 Pƙed 4 lety +22

    Let's be honest here, I bet this was recommended to everyone since the Coronavirus is hot topic.

  • @hungryewok1684
    @hungryewok1684 Pƙed 4 lety +7

    See a huge line forming*
    Me: New star wars movie?
    Guy in line: Cosco just got some more toilet paper in
    Me: Cosco is a mile away

  • @thecoolerrats7144
    @thecoolerrats7144 Pƙed 5 lety +9

    They should definitely make a movie about the Philadelphia outbreak.

  • @juliangines6764
    @juliangines6764 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Crazy, just over 100 years later the same things happened again. Beat by beat.

  • @eliasf8729
    @eliasf8729 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Watching this in 2021. It's just so surreal, the similarities between both outbreaks. It's almost like watching a documentary about the 2020s while being in the 2020s. I hope you all stay safe. And next time someone takes a picture of you... smile for the history books.

  • @julianratering8500
    @julianratering8500 Pƙed 5 lety +4

    I really like Matts voice-acting in this episode. In earlier episodes I found it a bit too loud/'overwhelming'. In this episode however, his voice is calm with a pause between sentences. I hope it keeps this way, so Matt if you read this, keep up the good work :)

  • @mmoves4603
    @mmoves4603 Pƙed rokem +3

    I watched this when it was first posted. Never did I think I would live through a pandemic. Clearly, none of us learned from history.

  • @vaethe
    @vaethe Pƙed 4 lety +25

    That whole president not caring about the pandemic part sounds kind of familiar..

    • @uemanu9201
      @uemanu9201 Pƙed 4 lety +3

      Yeah....... Do you thing he has the virus(corona virus)
      Seems like because he ignored the press when they asked him that did he tested?

  • @Noosa21
    @Noosa21 Pƙed 3 lety +5

    Amazing how history repeats - great video series mate.

  • @brutelogic153
    @brutelogic153 Pƙed 4 lety +4

    Maaan, I can never imagine anything like this happening again

  • @Googledeservestodie
    @Googledeservestodie Pƙed 2 lety +3

    New drinking challenge every time there's a parallel with covid-19 and you take a shot and then scream into a pillow

  • @rampage3390
    @rampage3390 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    1918: Spitting or coughing without covering your mouth is a crime!
    2020: I cant wear a mask because i will suffocate

  • @cassandrarose11
    @cassandrarose11 Pƙed 4 lety +38

    Sounds like what America and the world is doing right now with the coronavirus

  • @roundishwhale
    @roundishwhale Pƙed 5 lety +34

    jeeeezes the children rhyme part sounded like strait out of a horror movie :D

    • @Prich319
      @Prich319 Pƙed 5 lety +5

      Master of Suicide wouldn't be the first time. The ring around the roses rhyme was in reference to the black death.

    • @numbereightyseven
      @numbereightyseven Pƙed 4 lety

      @@Prich319 Oranges and lemons, too, I think.