Enjoy my educational content? Well, why not check out my new channel Megaprojects: kzfaq.info/love/0woBco6Dgcxt0h8SwyyOmw
@sophiaangelaasido46344 жыл бұрын
Wow this waa pinned 2 weeks ago 0:
@romelnegut20054 жыл бұрын
@@sophiaangelaasido4634 Yeah! I wonder why.
@supportyourtroopsathletes64604 жыл бұрын
Dang Simon, though I understand why you are creating a bunch of channels, it is capitalism of the online world. At least it is healthy in studies that is great for anyone to expand their own knowledge to spread to others but without the financial benefits that you take in. A friend of mine that I known since we were teens, did a channel , became popular and the money generated pays all his staff full time and his large facility. Though he only has 6 paid full time staff members, he does really well with KZfaq. All the rest of the Money he makes on what he does is pure profit.
@abrahamthomas70674 жыл бұрын
Because he was most fear general for allies
@michaeltorres6384 жыл бұрын
China, China, China, yeah I believe that.
@JoeMun4 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather fought in WW1. He came down with Spanish Flu and the doctors thought he was going to die. They moved him next to a mass grave awaiting burial but right before they picked him up, a medic saw he was still breathing and they took him back to the aid station. He eventually recovered and was able to return home in April of 1919. I have some of his old postcards that he sent home, his helmet and his uniform. Very touching
@mikhailbashni89364 жыл бұрын
Not the "Spanish" Flu you moron, it didn't come from Spain or any other Latin American country. By the way, I was just called a moron for saying that.
@COSMICBARBEAQUE4 жыл бұрын
@@mikhailbashni8936 Bit harsh, considering that's what it was called for the majority of the video and that's what most people know it as
@veritorossi4 жыл бұрын
@@mikhailbashni8936 Spanish means from Spain not Latin America. Spain is in Europe not Latin America. That's what it's called, there is an explanation to why it's called Spanish Flu and it has nothing to do with the origin of the virus.
@leightonmitchell25644 жыл бұрын
Mikhail Bashni colloquially, it is called the Spanish Flu. Goodness gracious don’t be so daft. Also, if you are going to correct someone, don’t mess up basic geography. Spain is in Europe, not Latin America.
@tacklecentralfishing10514 жыл бұрын
@@mikhailbashni8936 just shut up.
@howardhiggins96412 жыл бұрын
My aunt was 16 ears old in 1918. She told me that she could still remember the tears running down her fathers cheeks, as he made her baby sister Emily's casket on the back porch of the house. My grandfather was the only carpenter in a small AZ mining town, and he had to make it himself.
@Qqxx222 жыл бұрын
Wow
@aq54262 жыл бұрын
Oh man...that's just heartbreaking :(
@thepoppyvalentine2 жыл бұрын
Society should never come to this. What's currently happening in the US breaks my heart. Those who are wealthy enough can buy ranches and go "off grid" essentially, and opt out, which I think shows a huge failure of communal society and class. I'm a dual UK/NZ citizen, I grew up on hearing about "the flu" and "the Wars" ... a huge, HUGE part of me is so very glad that my amazing, loving, ex-Royal Navy (and notably Dutch Jewish) grandfather, died peacefully in his late 90's, because I think him seeing what happened/what was done during Trump's election and "his" America, would have been too much for my wonderful, loving Opa.
@loger_2floofyboogaloo2782 жыл бұрын
@@thepoppyvalentine What did he do?
@hgservices5572 Жыл бұрын
Now during Biden more have died , he would have been better off to see the trump admin and pass than to see the tragedy of the Biden admin and their handling of the pandemic
@Tazza814 жыл бұрын
KZfaq: How many channels would you like to host. Simon: Yes
@ZemarRed4 жыл бұрын
stop.
@miwa47984 жыл бұрын
How many channels does he host? I only know this and geographics
@margoempatha29144 жыл бұрын
This SLAYED me😂😂
@shaunparfett4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@Zman2014 жыл бұрын
Got to pay the bills some how 🤣
@stefan63474 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, one of my favorite historical figures, The Flu.
@embee55574 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@BrandMalone244 жыл бұрын
If you can't beat em, then catch em.
@rickardboberg4 жыл бұрын
Perfect Biography indeed! Really powerful and inspiring this Flu!
@ZappasMudshark4 жыл бұрын
To be fair I’m sure there will be a new channel in a week all about famous diseases.
@mandymaeK13 жыл бұрын
Christopher Shuba content by Simon Whistler to be sure.
@RealSkoolmaster4 жыл бұрын
Simon: "new channels come out a couple times a week!" Me: "... Yeah, sounds right"
@RealSkoolmaster4 жыл бұрын
@Boosted Coyote shill something? You mean the sponsors? You mean the thing that pays for the videos? I dont mind them. The dude has to make a living somehow and most of the topics he covers on most of his channels are not going to get monetized due to the screwed up way KZfaq works these days.
@--enyo--4 жыл бұрын
@Boosted Coyote Yeah, how dare he try to make a living. This is literally his job. If he doesn't have sponsors we don't get videos.
@matthewgray7584 жыл бұрын
Boosted Coyote you’re showing your ignorance!
@karanvirsingh78293 жыл бұрын
@Boosted Coyote not everyone has money fall out of their ass like you do apparently. Videos take time and effort to make.
@JamVar4 жыл бұрын
"New channels come out a couple times a week" Simon, I don't think that was a mistake.
@DerptyDerptyDUM4 жыл бұрын
Haha, I'm not sure it was. He's a busy guy. 😄
@adonnen4 жыл бұрын
How does he do it xD?
@0fficialdregs4 жыл бұрын
hes planning a takeover
@Altered_Alchemist4 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking this lol
@0fficialdregs4 жыл бұрын
@@Altered_Alchemist i told him to stop but he wouldn't listen *crawl to camera* he...wouldn't...listen
@demonicusa.k.a.theblindguy39292 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather came to America in 1910, and passed from the flu in 18. His steamer trunk sits in our living room, and looking at it over the last 2 years has taken on a whole new meaning.
@jiajianhou4264 жыл бұрын
Year 2101. Simon’s grandson’s channel: COVID-19, the great pandemic of 21st century
@hailtothevic3 жыл бұрын
I really do hope Covid is the worst part of the 2020's/ 21st century...
@aeris20013 жыл бұрын
@@hailtothevic no chance, its just the start of the disasters heading our way
@hailtothevic3 жыл бұрын
@@aeris2001 I chose a bad time to stop drinking...
@StopTheMoment13 жыл бұрын
Alternate title "COVID-19, the first great pandemic of 21st century"
@KMon1111IND3 жыл бұрын
@@hailtothevic Just don't drink and smoke before and after vaccination.
@kphizzle95694 жыл бұрын
Soon every channel will be presented by Simon Whistler. I for one welcome out new overlord and claim the mantle of First Whistler
@JamesThomas-pj2lx4 жыл бұрын
honestly we could do worse.
@vrapbrap4 жыл бұрын
Yo. Elon musk has invited 8 ram ranch cowboys to go to meeeerrrsss. Simon whistler, is gonna get his subs raised deep and deep and deep. Haerd and haerd and haeeerrd
@chico305SIGMA4 жыл бұрын
I'm against monopolies..
@kphizzle95694 жыл бұрын
May the shine of his glorious head lead us through the darkness of ignorance. May your follicles be as clear as your understanding of the world around you.
@DerptyDerptyDUM4 жыл бұрын
Alright, Kent Brockman. 😅
@annearls264 жыл бұрын
This brings back so many memories from my grandmother telling me stories of her mother and baby sister dying when my grandmother was 7yr old in 1919. She cried about it almost daily even in her 90's. She lost so much and was sent to a mean aunt and had a horrible life with her. This was in Alpena Michigan.
@lh95914 жыл бұрын
Don’t watch grave of the Fireflies
@lukefshort4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing part her story.
@JCO20024 жыл бұрын
I've always remembered my father, born in 1915, teliing me of family who died from it in Alberta. I took covid seriously from the start.
@veritorossi4 жыл бұрын
@@lh9591 It's an amazing movie. Sad but amazing.
@lh95914 жыл бұрын
Veronica Rossi I agree. When the op said the thing about the terrible aunt all is could think about was Grave of the Fireflies, and how awful that aunt was.
@Michael-yv6mp4 жыл бұрын
"History doesnt repeat itself, but it often rhymes" -Albert Einstein
@BattleBunny19794 жыл бұрын
that was mark twain
@NeverGoingToGiveYouUp0003 жыл бұрын
@@BattleBunny1979 Yes, its called a joke
@BattleBunny19793 жыл бұрын
@@NeverGoingToGiveYouUp000 nah, jokes are funny.
@krisreddish30663 жыл бұрын
@@BattleBunny1979 It is unattributable, no text of him saying that exist, just a maxim that popped up and someone thought Clemens said it from memory, but the closet thing in print he did write down was "History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends" In any case, I prefer the later.
@DemiseTheGod3 жыл бұрын
Spanish flu rhymes with what our president said. Kung flu
@walterholmes46094 жыл бұрын
Speaking of education, I am a Registered Nurse working in a high risk facility and my staff are often ESL from Africa or the Islands who are intelligent people and understand the consequences of disease, but are sometimes confused as to what is actually "happening" around them. I refer people to this video as an important tool in understanding what is happening in context to what a pandemic means. Concise education is the only real weapon I have against internet overload and foolish conspiracies in terms of having staff as well as my circle of friends understanding why we are doing what we do to combat Covid 19. You folks are Infoheroes! Thx!
@robofclanlennox5 ай бұрын
Foolish conspiracies? I can't be bothered even arguing with pharma drones like you any more. Keep believing your models, sweetheart. Remember how accurate they were?
@mattheweagleton55154 жыл бұрын
This is a perfect example of why I love this site. An incredibly detailed, informative video that manages to convey large amounts of information in a format that never gets boring or skippable. I believe people in general would be smarter if their teachers or mediums for information were presented in this way. Making something enjoyable, or at the very least not friggen boring, makes it SO much easier to absorb information
@traditionalnative4 жыл бұрын
I definitely agree with that! You put it better than I could. Learning should be enjoyable
@mrjones27212 жыл бұрын
The problem is that people do expect that now, making it hard to learn anything that’s not given the Hollywood treatment.
@kattmazi19342 жыл бұрын
That’s why teachers suck these days. They actually don’t know or care about what they teach. So they focus on the clock and the students do too. I imagine KZfaqrs being more qualified and knowledgeable than any 23 year old teacher that went from school to harder school
@eastfrisianguy4 жыл бұрын
My great-grandfather was in the war as a reservist in 1917-1918 and got the Spanish flu at the age of 38. He almost died of it and it took him almost two years to get fit again. After that he was panicky about every other flu. In the later years he got two more flu cases and each time he always barricaded himself in the bedroom, declared the top floor of the house a restricted area and only twice a day he let the family give him something to eat and put enough water, liquor and barley coffee on the stairs. Even the doctor was not allowed to come by. My grandfather experienced it as a child and told it over and over again. My great-grandfather was otherwise an extremely resolute and courageous man, a typical moor farmer from Northern Germany. But the flu became his kryptonite for the rest of his life.
@lizzieandmocha113111 ай бұрын
It's always fear that's our greatest enemy. We can take precautions, but letting something stop our lives just because we're afraid never amounts to anything. Unfortunately so many people let their fear control them.
@zeldaindisguise11 ай бұрын
He sounds like a smart and very considerate man. He understood the risk he could pose to others while sick, and took every precaution he could to protect the people around him. Kudos to him! I think there are a lot of people who care for those they come in contact with, and want to take those same kind of precautions to not infect others, but can't afford to stay at home because they otherwise would not be able to support themselves or their family. If only society was set up in a way to allow more people to be able to take time off at home when feeling sick-- we'd surely have less outbreaks. But that's preaching to the choir.
@StaringAtSidewalks2 жыл бұрын
"Could it happen today?" *Looks around* yes. Yes it could.
@flipster72853 жыл бұрын
My gran retold stories she heard from her mother of that pandemic here in South Africa. Whole families were wiped out overnight. Infants would be found clutched in the arms of their deceased mothers, orphaned and with no immediate family anymore. Heartbreaking and very scary.
@sandeepvk4 жыл бұрын
"Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It."
@anthonymorgan71404 жыл бұрын
covid-19 is not the same. please stop
@anthonymorgan71404 жыл бұрын
@@Ollie-trolley shut up, that flu was like wild fire, it didn't kill mostly old people it killed every age. Sexism goes both ways, miss me with that. Woman are far better off now, but that doesn't mean they are happy.
@noth6064 жыл бұрын
Ollie currently we don't know anything about how deadly the current virus is so you are just spitting BS in that regard. We don't know how many people have been or are asymptomatic either, all the studies done so far indicate a range of 3%-7% depending on where. However what we do know is the outcome ratio right now, we have 1.39million recovered and 280.000 dead approximately. So about 1.7million resolved, which in no way supports your 0.02% CFR or IFR for that matter. Best estimates right now put it in the 3-6.5% range for CFR but I don't see the numbers supporting that either, it looks higher to me. But I'm going with the official estimates instead of making up my own like you do.
@micahhlopez76784 жыл бұрын
@@Ollie-trolley no there isn't sexism
@joshuapatrick6824 жыл бұрын
Clever, you write that yourself? BTW the entire self quarantine and shelter in place effort has so far kept it from killing tens of millions of people. That is evidence we learned from history...
@richardbidinger25774 жыл бұрын
My great grandparents on my father's side died during this. At the time, my grandfather was stationed in Europe with the military. When he heard his parents were sick, he requested leave to go home, but was denied. He ended up going AWOL and went home anyway only to find out his parents had already passed away. I don't think he got in trouble with the military, probably because of everything that was going on at the time. When I saw the notification, I had to watch, I needed to know more about the flu that left a scar on my family.
@Chris.Pontius4 жыл бұрын
100 years later: let's politicise face masks!
@AudioZer03 жыл бұрын
"BUT I HAVE A BREATHING PROBLEM AND I DONT WANT TO SMELL MY OWN BREATH AND IT'S A 5G MICROCHIP CONSPIRACY AND MY OXYGEN LEVELS!!!"
@frogpalpeeper42493 жыл бұрын
Isn't Covid somehow connected to Hillary's emails? Hmm...
@allanphillips69953 жыл бұрын
@@frogpalpeeper4249 Do you mean the emails containing Top Secret National security information that ended up on a perverts laptop and who knows where else?
@frogpalpeeper42493 жыл бұрын
@@nosuchthing8 I was being sarcastic. Sorry that wasn't clear.
@Dougie19693 жыл бұрын
@@nosuchthing8 So you think #1 Trump thinks the virus was a hoax and #2 he caused 200,000 deaths because of it??? I bet mom is proud of you.
@isaacb59684 жыл бұрын
Simon: “Just before we get started I want to mention...” Me: *skip* *skip* *skip*
@Dunewarrior003 жыл бұрын
Use sponsorskip
@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache4 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate topics like this. Many people don't know how serious the Spanish Flu actually was.
@beckymcclure69434 жыл бұрын
My great-grandmother lost 2 sons to the pandemic in 1918. They died a day apart, I can only imagine the grief she must have felt.
@ZemarRed4 жыл бұрын
that's really heavy. couldn't even imagine :(
@candice_ecidnac4 жыл бұрын
Can you do one on Mother Jones, "The Most Dangerous Woman in America", who organized unions and fought to abolish the use of child labor?
@janedunlap68793 жыл бұрын
Yeah, she was pretty amazing. Outrage from the Italian Hall Disaster certainly helped the cause. It feels as though that disaster killed Calumet in the long run. Sad place if you go there today.
@yaranezar72524 жыл бұрын
this channel is probably the most interesting thing i've stumbled upon this year
@WilbanksUSMC4 жыл бұрын
Man, you're popping out new channels left and right! Don't forget to breathe, and eat food!
@nicholaslewis85944 жыл бұрын
He’s posting sometimes hours worth of content a day. He’s working pretty hard. That’s why Business Blaze is his best channel. He gets to be his interesting self.
@UnownDepth4 жыл бұрын
was the others?
@___LC___4 жыл бұрын
Marshall Miles do you mean what’s the others? I can start a list, but I’ll forget half of them. Biographics Geographics Megaprojects Business Blaze (my favorite) Top Tenz .......
@arnaldoteodorani2774 жыл бұрын
Christy T .... Today I found Out, Visual Politik, Highlight History, plus the podcasts Simon Whistler Show and Brainfood Show
@--enyo--4 жыл бұрын
I think he just functions on coffee and cocaine.
@HistorySpark4 жыл бұрын
I just wanted to say I really love all of Simons channels all 100 of them, but this one is my favourite and I think the videos put out by Simon and his team are fantastic and really informative. Keep up the good work, you guys were a huge influence on me and have motivated me to start my own channel a little while ago as well
@morrigan1914 жыл бұрын
there's separate teams behind each channel, writers, editors etc Only biographics and geographics are done by the same group. Simon just reads the scripts and sends the raw footage to whoever the editor is for that video. That's how he can manage to make videos for 8 channels. So it's not one team.
@deuter4586244 жыл бұрын
HistorySpark Have you taken to watching Simon’s channel Business Blaze🔥 ??? Watch a video and you’ll be hooked 😻 ★LEGEND☆
@HistorySpark4 жыл бұрын
@@deuter458624 haha yea i think its his presenting style thats got me addicted to all his channels. I watch top tenz, biographics,geographics, business blaze and today i found out pretty regularly
@SubvertTheState4 жыл бұрын
Biographics released this video weeks after the start of lockdown measures across the US. Which, to me, means your team did a good amount of research and pre/post production. Excellent video as always, it's crazy how much more interesting and trustworthy these channels are compared to the news cycle.
@tamasharbula33173 жыл бұрын
Simon Whistler - the man, the myth, the legend. Teaching more than any teacher. Man, you are awesome!
@sarahbryant87683 жыл бұрын
you need to be in my history lessons!
@tamasharbula33173 жыл бұрын
@@sarahbryant8768 why?
@nimb3214 жыл бұрын
It's good to look at our past mistakes to avoid repeating them. And it appears that we have learned ***ruffles papers, checks notes*** ... nothing! Yeah, it says right here: "We have learned nothing." So that's that.
@barbararajska35704 жыл бұрын
yeah, looks like the only cinsistent thing in human race is to learn nothing from past mistakes :(
@micahhlopez76784 жыл бұрын
Obey, submit, comply, live in fear!
@briebel26844 жыл бұрын
The biggest thing the west seems to be ignoring is how much mask wearing helped during that pandemic. Now it's all idiots saying masks infringe on their 'freedoms', and saying stupid things like stay at home orders being comparable to Nazi Germany. Biggest crock I've heard yet. We let too many stupid people survive these days, apparently.
@NyikoDoris4 жыл бұрын
humans, complete dumbasses since the dawn of time
@eye_despise47464 жыл бұрын
@@micahhlopez7678 They Live!
@josephhaddakin70954 жыл бұрын
My Great Grandmother's first husband died from the flu in 1919. I knew her. She outlived 3 husbands & passed away in 1980. P.S. her second husband died of complications from "The Great War".
@chico305SIGMA4 жыл бұрын
World War 1 is called "The Great War"
@josephhaddakin70954 жыл бұрын
@@chico305SIGMA yes, it is. She married her second husband after 1919 when he had returned from Transporting troops back from Russia. (White Russians/Revolution). He subsequently passed away in 1923. P.S., her third had an uneventful long life although hers was longer. lol
@aaronlaing42442 жыл бұрын
she was definitely killing them haha
@chibiprussia55742 жыл бұрын
I wrote my senior thesis on this last year and the worst city affected was Philadelphia, which had cases skyrocket after they held a war bond parade. Some cities like Seattle and St. Louis also saw the potential threat this new type of flu had after seeing the destruction it caused in other cities that didn't implement measures (much to the citizen's dismay) and by implementing these measures (closing down dance halls, wearing masks, making it illegal to spit in public, etc), they had far fewer cases. Out of curiosity, I googled when the first effective flu vaccine was created and it wasn't until the 1930s.
@tarawalker71932 жыл бұрын
This brings tears to my eyes in 2022 as I think back on the loss and experience of Covid from 2020-2021.
@plinkitee4 жыл бұрын
My grandmother caught the flu when she was 16 and it almost killed her. It did kill her parents.
@haleighferland65774 жыл бұрын
Plinkitee I know you didn’t know them but I’m sorry that that’s how your great-grandparents passed away
@plinkitee4 жыл бұрын
@@haleighferland6577 Thank you 🙂
@darquequeen23234 жыл бұрын
That’s awful! 😔
@RodolphosTechchannel4 жыл бұрын
Is she ok
@plinkitee4 жыл бұрын
@@RodolphosTechchannel She died on 1984 at the age of 82. She was fine. 😁
@dickdastardly42364 жыл бұрын
This all sounds so familiar..... I just can't put my finger on why.
@iCrapBubbles4 жыл бұрын
Spanish flu was comparatively much, MUCH worse than Covid 19.
@movietimeateds694 жыл бұрын
You probably shouldn't put your finger on it.
@joyceblackmon17454 жыл бұрын
Covid is the common cold compared to this
@PaulM683224 жыл бұрын
@@joyceblackmon1745 Covid could easily be worse, how bad would Covid have been back then after a war, no freedom of press, no ventilators etc.
@tarionmarsden1574 жыл бұрын
People dont learn from history and they repeat it.
@jeancorriveau86862 жыл бұрын
My grandmother, then 11 years old, caught that influenza in 1918. Sadly, her six sisters didn't recover and died! My grandmother survived, not well, though. She remained frail for the rest of her life.
@katashworth414 жыл бұрын
I think this is one of the few deadly diseases my grandma didn’t catch, she had smallpox and diphtheria not once, but twice. But hey she lived to be 102.
@weemac4645 Жыл бұрын
What a terrible way to die.
@unicornglitterfart5201 Жыл бұрын
You don’t catch smallpox twice.
@FYMASMD11 ай бұрын
No polio?
@katashworth4111 ай бұрын
@@unicornglitterfart5201 she had diphtheria twice.
@katashworth4111 ай бұрын
@@FYMASMD nope.
@valsptsd8144 жыл бұрын
I am so glad you did this. I wish more people would educate themselves on this flu. There are things to be afraid of. And spectacular information to be had. I didn’t hear you mention this, but the beginnings of antibiotics were inspired by this flu, and a need for the Staph and Strep infection management.
@johndilday18464 жыл бұрын
My maternal grandfather was an American soldier in France in the fall of 1918. He caught the Spanish flu, and had it so bad he was placed in a segregated ward for those who were about to die, and all of his possessions were given away. However, much to the surprise of his doctor, he recovered. Supposedly, the first to have recovered after being placed on the death ward. He didn't get his possessions back, but did survive. He also was fortunate in that he didn't get out of the hospital until after the armistice, and so missed the poison gas and combat hazards faced by the other fellows in his unit. His wife, my grandmother, worked as a nurse in Springfield, Illinois and never caught it. She said that the doctor she worked for took good care of his nurses and made sure that they took all precautions and took good care of themselves.
@HuffinStufff Жыл бұрын
My buddy great grandma was a kid during Spanish flu times. She was one of 13 kids and she was the only one who survived out of her siblings.
@weemac4645 Жыл бұрын
I think I met her,she was an only child when I bumped into her.She made her living by selling lucky heather.
@jamestnov419453 жыл бұрын
Thank you Simon. My Grandfather died in the 1918 flu. But my Grandmother did not she had 4 sons who were not affected. The number I heard was close to 80 million deaths. In fact there were entire remote island populations which were destroyed.
@fuckel984 жыл бұрын
Seriously, your cadence and articulation makes anything interesting. You do very well orating, I assume you know this already haha. I truly appreciate what you do.
@staarren8119 Жыл бұрын
my great grandmother got spanish flu when she was 3, survived, and died a few years ago aged 101. pretty cool :)
@lorrielerette72304 жыл бұрын
At about a 1/2 hour long, this KZfaq video was very informative. And it helps to understand the risks associated with this current pandemic. Stay safe. 🙂
@kevbeau1295 Жыл бұрын
Covid is a scamdemic.
@BelaBeier4 жыл бұрын
Hi Biographics! Just wanted to say that I prefer the "new" three-act format for complicated / large topics like this one. Keep it up :)
@syntheticteapot4 жыл бұрын
Agreed. This makes things easily digestible. I like to listen to these things while working and its nice to have it split into blocks if I need a small break.
@caffeinated24x74 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this video. After years of study on the Spanish flu, you surprised me with additional information I was not aware of. I love your channels.
@joelslater45873 жыл бұрын
This hits different now-a-days.
@Nanno002 жыл бұрын
Most of my grandmothers family and separately her future husbands, my grandfather’s family, died in the catastrophic Moose Lake fire of 1918. My grandmother then caught the Spanish Flu sometime after that when she was 2 or 3, I think that was the 2nd wave. She survived, obviously since I was born. My grandfather’s mother also caught the Spanish Flu but she died so my grandfather was raised by an older sister.
@Callisto-vy7vx4 жыл бұрын
It's international nurses day and we got this video! I appreciate all nurses around the world. We love your selflessness, courage and dedication.
@Callisto-vy7vx4 жыл бұрын
@Lodogg 3323 I'm not. My sister is a registered nurse on the front lines. Cheers!
@Wigalot4 жыл бұрын
@@Callisto-vy7vx No really, International Nurses Day is May 12th. Maybe your sister said next week it is International Nurses Day? Edit: National Nurses Day is May 6th so could also be confusion with that.
@mv76474 жыл бұрын
Last time I was this early, we could still go outside
@MAGGOT_VOMIT4 жыл бұрын
_Covid19 is the greatest Dempanic ever._
@JnixMarshel4 жыл бұрын
@spudnic88 you're a true idiot. Lol.
@dtaylor10chuckufarle3 жыл бұрын
This may just be your masterpiece. Extensive research, brilliantly presented with helpful advice even in 2121. Thank you Simon and team.
@jennifermusielak26123 жыл бұрын
This was so interesting. My great-great grandmother died in 1918...and she was pregnant at the time. Thank you for the general overview of how the virus works in our body.
@rubensousa92164 жыл бұрын
The baby's born after the pandemic belonged to the generation who was more likely to be drafted to WWII. I see some irony in there
@movietimeateds694 жыл бұрын
Thats what happens when the wars are only 20 years apart.
@Crazt4 жыл бұрын
Round 3: ...WWIII loading.
@Zman2014 жыл бұрын
@@Crazt If WWIII has been reloading this whole time I'm scared to see what it fires
@lizeggar24213 жыл бұрын
My grandmother nursed in Johannesburg, SA, during the Spanish Flu. She also had 4 children, ranging in age from 14 years to 5 years. They were sent to live out the epidemic on a family farm. Nobody in the family became sick, although both my grandparents worked in hospitals, my grandfather as a clerk. My father fought in WW1,but also never caught the flu. He left the army in 1922. He was 15 years older than my Mum, so I grew up on stories about WW1 and WW2.
@joesmith-em2cd2 жыл бұрын
@@Crazt This aged pretty well.
@OGA1034 жыл бұрын
That Simon sneeze was perfection.
@mirushiroi3 жыл бұрын
"It took only one single virus, inside a single droplet out of forty thousand ejected by a single sneeze and just like that, you were infected" * sneezes *
@ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын
1:25 - Part 1 - March of the invisible tyrant 1:35 - Chapter 1 - A mysterious origin 5:35 - Chapter 2 - Voices in the 2nd wave 10:05 - Chapter 3 - The last waves 15:40 - Part 2 - Profiling the killer 15:50 - Chapter 1 - One of a kind 18:15 - Chapter 2 - Modus operandi 22:20 - Part 3 - Assessing the damage 22:30 - Chapter 1 - A pale rider 25:15 - Chapter 2 - A tragedy of the unborn 27:25 - Part 4 - Could it happen today ?
@ladytron91884 жыл бұрын
One of the best videos of the Spanish flu.Great narration and writing.Very appropriate for today’s pandemic.
@TotallyNotRedneckYall4 жыл бұрын
"Could it happen again today?" 😂🤣😭
@petercarioscia91894 жыл бұрын
Well thankfully, it hasn't. We just got to endure weeks if lockdowns and economic collapse over a harsh cold.
@bdegrds4 жыл бұрын
@@petercarioscia9189 harsh cold? 60,000 Americans dead in 30 days.
@TotallyNotRedneckYall4 жыл бұрын
The Left can't Meme - During the Spanish Flu we weren't a bunch of entitled, undisciplined crybabies. We wore masks when told, followed quarantine, and listened to our experts. I doubt many people wanted to kill their friends and family for a beach day, and those who valued money over lives were considered to be bad people.
@yt.personal.identification4 жыл бұрын
@@petercarioscia9189 As long as they bail out the Fortune 500 companies, then everything will be fine.
@Peanut_taco_muffin4 жыл бұрын
bdegrds the flu has killed 45k in one season (and it hasn’t been 30 days- learn to count) and there was no coverage on it whatsoever. Not far off
@revko1nyc4 жыл бұрын
Obviously, the numbers were padded, seriously though my grandmother was born on 1918 she would have been 102 this June. She did not make the milestone, she passed away this April, not by Covid19, but not making it to a hospital. The Doctors told us if we can try to ride it out and avoid the overcrowded NYC hospital at the time. She survived two major epidemics RIP Palina Marcela
@FYMASMD11 ай бұрын
Obviously ?? Ok. Show me your proof or are you just talking out your a$$. 🙄
@patriciadean1649 Жыл бұрын
Have heard many presentations about this -and still you bring new info and new perspectives-many thanks
@WarmasterGazz4 жыл бұрын
24:19 “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic” - Joseph Stalin. Sad but true
@ohnoqurl4 жыл бұрын
Garrison Nichols Those numbers are doctored at best and untruthful at worst. Stop being a sheep. Do research. Search communism myths debunked with facts.
@shebbs14 жыл бұрын
@Garrison Nichols Despite what JP claims, the facts actually back you up. At best Communist states were miserable and totalitarian, made worse by the tendency to use force and oppress their populations. JP will likely use the modern undergraduate excuse of " that wasn't REAL communism", but it is what comes from any implenentation of that faulty ideology.
@josephrusso48284 жыл бұрын
Owain Shebbeare you’re so convinced that you’re right, where’s your sources?
@abronbans34643 жыл бұрын
Damn he's evil Man
@timzhaw4 жыл бұрын
It would of been Anne Frank's birthday next month, I think that covering her short and harrowing life would make for a great episode of the show. PS I love this channel, keep up the good work, it is much appreciated 🙂
@jordanwilliams93004 жыл бұрын
There's a Highlight History (another Simon channel) on Anne Frank. It's quick but it's something.
@timzhaw4 жыл бұрын
@@jordanwilliams9300 Thanks for telling me friend! Without being rude to Simon, I actually didn't even know that channel existed (i'm subscribed to the others, but I must of missed that one somehow). You have my gratitude :) .
@shellcraigmiles52534 жыл бұрын
Would have* been
@MsOops124 жыл бұрын
You may just be the most prolific KZfaqr of this generation. Thank you for your content Simon
@paisley_flamingo24 жыл бұрын
Late to this, sorry. My great-granddad was in the USA army during the 1918 pandemic. He contracted the Spanish flu and lost all his teeth and went bald due to it. He would tell about the number of soldiers in the hospital ward. He said people were dying so fast they couldn’t keep up and didn’t have storage for that number of bodies, so they had to stack them in the ward until they could be taken care of properly.
@cgt37044 жыл бұрын
Next: King ferdinand and Queen Marie of romania
@abrahamthomas70674 жыл бұрын
No
@PhuckedUpPhilosophy4 жыл бұрын
CG Toe boooooring
@cgt37044 жыл бұрын
@@abrahamthomas7067 do you even know who they are
@--enyo--4 жыл бұрын
@@cgt3704 I don't know who they are, so upvote because I come to this channel to find out about people I don't know about. Although I'd also like to hear about Ceausescu.
@srkidd124 жыл бұрын
The message is clear to me, "This too, shall pass." Stay calm and carry on. Be carefully and mindful.
@sammylong37044 жыл бұрын
No, no, no we must panic, wear masks, stand 2 meters apart, only leave the house for essential journey's and hand over all our civil liberties to make sure everyone is safe. If you dont comply, you'll have to be sent to a re-education camp, sorry.
@MarielaQue4 жыл бұрын
@@sammylong3704 civil liberties? Like what?
@tonyrigby60654 жыл бұрын
That's the "careful and mindful" part. I don't want to lose a continent worth of people because some dummies REALLY need to get a fucking haircut.
@srkidd124 жыл бұрын
@@tonyrigby6065 go crawl in a hole. Life goes on whether you are in it or not.
@tonyrigby60654 жыл бұрын
My kids would prefer me and my wife in it.
@matthewgray7584 жыл бұрын
I have been watching biographics since day 1 and I have to say this was, one of your best episodes. Keep it up!!
@AnimaRandom3 жыл бұрын
1918: its just a flu 2020: its just a flu
@RynalinOnyx4 жыл бұрын
Always love your videos! This one is no exception! Thorough enjoyed!! A very apt time lol. I recently found out that the actual Chef Boyardee had a super cool life, where he helped people stay fed in the depression, and the allies during the war, and had a restaurant. I think it would be great to see a biographics on him! Please keep it up!
@evantambolang3052 Жыл бұрын
And yet people make fun of his products because they're "low quality"
@Anenome54 жыл бұрын
Who watchin' this in 2020 like hindsight is 20/20.
@SugmaNatsu4 жыл бұрын
I'm not
@WildStar20024 жыл бұрын
@@SugmaNatsu LOL!
@stefan63474 жыл бұрын
Oooh a time traveller, is it true that aliens built The Pyramids?
@thegrayyernaut4 жыл бұрын
@@stefan6347 Nah, they commissioned the Pyramids and we built them :))
@wickedkingjeremy3 жыл бұрын
I'm not, but still. Yes.
@deborahlovel63374 жыл бұрын
One of the Spanish Influenza victims was my great aunt, Eleanor Jaques, who was about 8 years of age when she died - likely during the first or second waves of the flu.
@michelewillems75383 жыл бұрын
This was so interesting! Thank you Simon. My dad was born in Denmark December 6th 1919. during the Spanish flu epidemic.
@Khaylus4 жыл бұрын
A perfectly ethical video to release at this time. A shrewd businessman 😂😂 I’m sure this will go “viral”
@palmcustomsllc84364 жыл бұрын
No my friend, you had it right the first time... you DO have new channels coming out multiple times a week, lmao! I'm not complaining though, I love them all! Especially Blaze! Keep up the great work, and keep Danny on his toes! Lol
@nicholaslewis85944 жыл бұрын
And I want to hear more about Sam.
@dodgermaven4 жыл бұрын
A doctor at Tarzana Medical Center in Los Angeles said he noticed that the current pandemic is creating a cytokine storm.
@mitchy5593 жыл бұрын
My great grandmother was a German immigrant and her mother passed when she was only 4 from the flu. I couldn’t imagine slowly suffocating to death while holding my 4 year old daughter.
@davidorioli38704 жыл бұрын
Ram Ranch really rocks
@Green-tf8uw4 жыл бұрын
gachiHYPER
@cultistsash4 жыл бұрын
Nooooo
@vrapbrap4 жыл бұрын
Yeah Shawn!
@davidorioli38704 жыл бұрын
@@vrapbrap Yeah 28 US Marines pulling up in black Ford Raptor Trucks Helicopters landed Ram Ranch is under siege Under lock down
@lanorothwolf21844 жыл бұрын
This guy looks smart, he should make a youtube channel
@professorrosenstock50264 жыл бұрын
Enough now
@nazmulkabir37744 жыл бұрын
or 50
@stevenanderson97192 жыл бұрын
A few years ago I worked for a non-profit in Mississippi. On the property was a family graveyard. The sadist graves were the graves of a woman and her 5 children. The children all died within a month of each other and the mother dying last. I can't imagine the grief the mother felt.
@sydhenderson6753 Жыл бұрын
The countermeasures here are what were put in place at the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic (and also hand-washing, which is an excellent preventative against flu, which is often spread by surfaces and hand, but not that effective against COVID-19). In other words, our first response was to treat it like influenza.
@varyolla435 Жыл бұрын
All airborne viral pathogens require the same basic measures of mitigation: social distancing/hand washing/masks. Unlike then however we today have the benefit of antiviral medications and vastly improved medical treatments - as well as a vaccine. Thus the former can help reduce your chances of being exposed so as to be infected to a degree. The latter are what help you once you are infected. In the end however the goal as always is to prevent exposure and subsequent infection. For that to happen the virus must be cut off from its host to reduce local morbidity. Vaccination is the most effective way to achieve this as you can via mass vaccination trigger an immunological response in large numbers of people very quickly. In the case of Influenza - and now Covid - there is a limit to such mitigation because these viral pathogens are = "zoonotic" - hence they exist in other species. We can not therefore eradicate them. All we can do is to wage an ongoing campaign to limit their spread and hence the adverse impact of their presence in communities. They are a part of the environment now. 🤔
@bengahzijr.42934 жыл бұрын
“I had a little bird, his name was Enza, I opened a window, and inflewenza”.
@syntheticteapot4 жыл бұрын
Booooooo
@dinakay49904 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@stuart9404 жыл бұрын
i had a little bird her name was rona she was so pretty everyone said cor! rona
@tuttuttuttut50613 жыл бұрын
So funny because it's not funny.
@ianlisk4 жыл бұрын
I love you Simon. I want your voice to narrate my struggle in quarantine like it matters to the history books
@joannewilson116210 ай бұрын
I’m listening to this in 2023 and I’m getting chills…the similarities between the Spanish flu and the Covid 19 pandemic are staggering. And scary.
@ryhol54172 жыл бұрын
My great grandparents lived through the Spanish flu. Nobody learned anything.
@introvertednoise4 жыл бұрын
Simon should share how he grew that glorious mane. It is every bearded guy’s dream 🙌🏽 Great content as well. The Black Death and the Spanish Flu have always fascinate me
@jenniferburgett83284 жыл бұрын
💜 I love the way you tell stories. Even if it's all facts, your voice makes it better. But then again, I love history!
@AndyJarman2 жыл бұрын
The flu affected the life span of those born during the pandemic. Many patients were left mentally "incompetent" never capable of reaching full consciousness. Dr Oliver Sachs was a doctor who treated these people and bought some of them back to "full" consciousness after decades in a comatose state called Catatonia lethargica bought on during their bout of Spanish flu. Robin William's played Sachs in the film Awakenings - the title of Sachs' memoirs of his experiences.
@venus-ot6kl Жыл бұрын
my great grandma had the spanish flu as a young girl. no one else in her family had it. she ended up having really thin hair from the high fever afterwards
@jaytrace10064 жыл бұрын
My great uncle was at Camp Funston at that time. He died, but not due to the Flu. At that particular time, the First Wave was spreading. However, that didn’t always seem like the most prevalent health concern at the camp. There was a terrible, deadly outbreak of the measles. That’s what took my uncle.
@bdegrds4 жыл бұрын
If the Spanish flu happened today I don't really think people understand what would happen. In 1918 there wasn't world travel like today, so the spread would be far more. Probably close to a quarter billion dead with today's population, with 2-3 billion infected. That would mean many healthcare workers, telecommunications workers, electricians, leaders of industry, Government officials, medicine manufacturers, food suppliers, police etc... Would die. Eventually due to lack of workers. That would mean your electricity would go out, cell phones out, food shortages, people wouldn't be able to get medicine because of lack of production. And governments would go out as well in some countries. With no exaggeration every civilization eventually falls, the Spanish flu today could end modern society as we know it. So while covid is not that.... Thankfully. Respect it and do what the experts say and learn from the past.
@shihtzu2914 жыл бұрын
bdegrds The mortality rate would still be worse then(1918) than today because all of the troops in close proximity going back and forth on ships and trains and at huge military camps also the fact medicine has come a long way since then to treat it at a simptonmatic level and now we have antibiotics which wasn't about then. 🏴🇬🇧
@briebel26844 жыл бұрын
We have antibiotics today, so it's unlikely any H1N1 flu would be that bad these days. It's estimated that the vast majority of deaths were caused by secondary bacterial pneumonia, not the flu virus itself. The 2009 H1N1 strain would have probably been just as bad then, but it isn't now because modern medicine knows how to deal with it.
@KR-hg8be4 жыл бұрын
@@briebel2684 viruses are not effected by antibiotics. So it would help with 2ndary infections but not the cytokine storms that killed many of the younger victims.
@AvoidTheCadaver4 жыл бұрын
@@briebel2684 Except for viruses that we don't know about that have no vaccine (not antibiotics) you know like Covid19 which also happens to cause ARDS in patients. With all our modern medicine and technology how are we dealing with Covid19? Quarantines. Lock downs. Face masks. It's the height of hubris to think we humans have that kind of power. Humanity managed to kill 10million or so of itself in WW1 across 4 years. Nature managed that in less than half that. Imagine a virus which had the pathogenicity of the Spanish flu couple with the lethality of something like ebola or anthrax. It would make Spanish flu look like a picnic. Something like that is lurking out there almost certainly.
@kevink15754 жыл бұрын
Covid would likely have similar numbers if we went business as usual.
@katethielen388310 ай бұрын
1:32 shout out to the cat wearing a mask with their family 😂
@multiyapples Жыл бұрын
Rest in peace to those that passed away.
@ImperatorKernow4 жыл бұрын
"New channels come out a couple of times a week" - this is starting to look like less of a mistake Mr. Whistler and more like your overall aim, lmao.
@WildStar20024 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I think someday soon it will be "SimonTube" instead of KZfaq. That'd be *awesome*!
@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow4 жыл бұрын
Covid 19: We are the deadliest virus ever Spanish Flu: Hold my beer
@vengefulspirit994 жыл бұрын
John Matrixx covid 19 isn't really that deadly. If it was deadly, it wouldn't be that contagious. Kinda hard to spread the virus when the host is dead.
@lauramolina33374 жыл бұрын
Anime Sekai exactly, that why the Ebola virus didn’t expand as much, too deadly.
@MisterTutor20104 жыл бұрын
Covid-19: I am BEER :)
@whatevr994 жыл бұрын
Bubonic Plague: (scoffs) “Amateurs...”
@SuperRustyBoy4 жыл бұрын
@@whatevr99 Not a virus.
@davidruppolo27553 жыл бұрын
„The only thing humanity has ever learned from history is that humanity never learned from history“. Sad but oh so true, especially in light of current events… Thank you Simon for this most interesting contribution.
@MoKingSr4 жыл бұрын
Yet another excellent video. Hopefully people will wake up about this mess.
@clayongunzelle95554 жыл бұрын
After we have tHe wAr tO eNd aLL WaRs mother nature just flexes and shows us how feeble we really are
@ginismoja24594 жыл бұрын
Humans: I WiLl fVcKinG dO iT AgAiN
@stefan63474 жыл бұрын
Mother Nature: *_Coronavirus BIATCH!_*
@dravenocklost42534 жыл бұрын
@@stefan6347 and yet we shall still survive.
@SRN184 жыл бұрын
Draven Ocklost not all of us
@AvoidTheCadaver4 жыл бұрын
Viruses. Nature's raid bomb.
@rami_ungar_writer4 жыл бұрын
Please consider doing videos on the following people: 1. Dennis Rader 2. Jack London 3. Upton Sinclair 4. Jack Ketchum 5. Jane Austen 6. Anton LaVey
@zeroireland4 жыл бұрын
7. Jack's brother, Ash.
@javierortiz824 жыл бұрын
@@zeroireland actually, Jack was his father, he went roaming around the world in search for pokemon and died a horrible death killed by a swarm of Beedrils, his wife survives him while being banged by Professor Oak.
@nancyomalley62862 жыл бұрын
Regarding the unborn-it's also probably because the pregnant women died sometime during their pregnancy since most pregnant women WERE in the target age bracket for this particular strain
@GigZer04 жыл бұрын
Disease, food & inflation. All underrated forces you dont hear enough about in high school history class.