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by Tyler Durden
Saturday, May 01, 2021 - 10:35 PM
This essay is adapted from Mr. Ferguson’s new book, “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe,” which will be published by Penguin Press on May 4. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
In 1957, the U.S. rose to the challenge of the ‘Asian flu’ with stoicism and a high tolerance for risk, offering a stark contrast with today’s approach to Covid-19.
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/But to be young was very heaven!” Wordsworth was talking about France in 1789, but the line applies better to the America of 1957. That summer, Elvis Presley topped the charts with “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear.” But we tend to forget that 1957 also saw the outbreak of one of the biggest pandemics of the modern era. Not coincidentally, another hit of that year was “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” by Huey “Piano” Smith & the Clowns.
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Two things before sharing about 10 huge tobacco barns once seen on what, at the time, was farmland on the west side of North Broadway. Some of us remember when there were only two barns left but others remember when all 10 were there.
First – Let’s never forget that Dr. Leroy Burney, who was appointed the eighth Surgeon General of the United States in 1956 -1961 by President Dwight Eisenhower, was the first Federal official to publicly identify cigarette smoke as a cause of lung cancer. Dr. Burney was born in Burney, right here in Decatur County on Dec. 31, 1906.
Second – Last week’s column about the Erdmann building on the east side of the square brought some great comments. Beth Lowe, daughter of the late Walter B. and Anna Paul Lowe, has one of the Erdmann Cigar Boxes and posted a picture of it. She said the cigar box was a childhood treasure that her father saved and that it probably belonged to his father Cassius Clay Low
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The History of the Forgotten Pandemic
In spring 1957, tens of thousands of refugees in Hong Kong fell ill with a novel strain of the flu. The virus would spread around the world, the first global outbreak since the 1918 flu pandemic and the first test of a fledgling early warning system. More than one million people died, 116,000 of them in the United States. But schooling, shopping, and sporting events went on as normal, and the pandemic has largely faded from public memory. A nurse at Montefiore Hospital in New York City receives a flu vaccination in 1957. Photo: Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo.
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