In Flew Enza
Generally I feel like an uneducated person.
I want to continue learning, even while not in school presently. So, perhaps a blog?
This week my topic of inquiry has been one that always burns at the back of my mind and resurfaces occaisionally, the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. I found a book about it and I have been delving through during work this week. (No classes)
What I find is that the more I read the more I realize I don't know. I don't think I ever got around to studying World War 1 in school. I have to research Wilson, World War 1, Socialists, Eugene Debs, burial customs. There is so much I don't understand.
wikipedia gives me this;
"More people died from the Spanish flu in six months than during the five years of conflict of World War I. The Spanish Flu may have killed 25 million people only in the first 25 weeks beginning in September 1918, while AIDS killed as many in its first 25 years."
I want to continue learning, even while not in school presently. So, perhaps a blog?
This week my topic of inquiry has been one that always burns at the back of my mind and resurfaces occaisionally, the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. I found a book about it and I have been delving through during work this week. (No classes)
What I find is that the more I read the more I realize I don't know. I don't think I ever got around to studying World War 1 in school. I have to research Wilson, World War 1, Socialists, Eugene Debs, burial customs. There is so much I don't understand.
wikipedia gives me this;
"More people died from the Spanish flu in six months than during the five years of conflict of World War I. The Spanish Flu may have killed 25 million people only in the first 25 weeks beginning in September 1918, while AIDS killed as many in its first 25 years."
posted by Colleen at 1:35 AM
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