Schools are set to start in the fall of 2020. We think.. We wonder.. we hope.
Nurses get ready.
It’s going to be a bumpy ride……
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WHICH CAME FIRST: THE HORROR MOVIE OR THE HORROR REALITY?
We have a theory.. no matter the era you live in, look to horror movies and professional wrestling to gauge the pop culture and history and feeling, mood and signs of the times.
HALLOWEEN KILLS has been delayed, but movie makers commented that they will attempt to correlate it to COVID and show how fear spreads virally.
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The forgotten pandemic that put a president in a hospital
About a decade the Asian Flu of 1957, another strain was suddenly filling the world’s hospitals with patients.. This new pandemic was circling the nation just as 60s rebellion was.. just as Charles Manson’s ‘family’ was on a murderous path in Tinseltown.. just as the Vietnam War sliced the nation in half.. bras burned. Woodstock’s mud.. It would go on to kill over 100,000 Americans and even hospitalize an American president .. It was the dreaded Hong Kong Flu pandemic of 1968..
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Heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend, heard it from a friend you were coughing around
Conspiracies and pandemics have long been intertwined.
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The Darkest Easter Vigil
In the modern times of churches being closed during a pandemic, we find solace in history.. old newspapers.. and strange stories of Pottsville patients jumping from hospital windows !
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Life during pandemic: We have been here before!
A fascinating day of news was reported in the MOUNT CARMEL ITEM on October 7, 1918: Among the news, Minersville was reported to be the worst stricken city in the area… According to the dispatch, Mount Carmel doctors hurried to the town… Kulpmont had 200 cases and four deaths.. Shamokin had 20 deaths..
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