{"id":508,"date":"2009-04-24T19:32:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2009-04-24T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:32:57","slug":"flu-2009-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Flu, 2009-style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long ago, I posted<\/a> about the 1918 flu pandemic. Whole cities enacted laws about wearing surgical masks. Schools and courts shut down. Large areas of daily life changed radically.<\/p>\n

Some interesting facts:<\/p>\n

1. It seemed to strike the young and healthy (that is, not just really old and really young people).<\/p>\n

2. It seemed to come in the spring, then come back in a much deadlier form the following winter.<\/p>\n

So… let’s talk about the new outbreak of swine flu in Mexico and Texas.<\/p>\n

This article<\/a> mentions the surprising facts that:<\/p>\n

1. The outbreak seems to be affecting the young and healthy.<\/p>\n

2. It’s hitting in warm places, where they’d have expected the flu season to be over by now.<\/p>\n

2. (Unlike in the past) it doesn’t seem to be limited to people who actually handle swine.<\/p>\n

I usually don’t get nervous about stuff like this, but reading about the 1918 outbreak might have made me sweat a little more than usual.<\/p>\n

[On a lighter note, the site I link to quotes an infectious diseases guy saying that flu spreading in the summer would give his organization heartburn. And the site puts the word “heartburn” into a hyperlink going to a page with information about heartburn.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not long ago, I posted about the 1918 flu pandemic. Whole cities enacted laws about wearing surgical masks. Schools and courts shut down. Large areas of daily life changed radically. Some interesting facts: 1. It seemed to strike the young and healthy (that is, not just really old and really young people). 2. It seemed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}