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A year into COVID-19, with almost every aspect of daily life upended by the pandemic, you’d be forgiven for thinking and even saying, as many people do that we’re living in unprecedented times.
Think again.
Try refreshing your browser. Pandemic and our response is hardly unprecedented: Western prof Back to video
Catchy as that buzzword is to describe what we’ve gone through, and are still enduring, London and the world have been through much of it before from remote schooling, to panic buying and even refusing to mask up.
It’s all there in history’s dustbin, experts say, only we seldom look.
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A look back to 1918 s Spanish flu, and the lessons of pandemics past From the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, to the scourge of polio before a vaccine was found, and the public hysteria over a 1910 comet, we ve been here before.
Author of the article: Megan Stacey
Publishing date: Feb 28, 2021 • February 28, 2021 • 7 minute read • Masked up, six children in a southern Alberta coal-mining family strike an arresting pose during the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, a black-and-white throwback to a common public health precaution - facial masks - widely required now to help stop the spread of COVID-19. (Canmore Museum)
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Masking up, and shouting down restrictions. Health warnings. Home schooling and businesses closed. Scrambles to find a silver bullet. COVID-19 has turned our world upside-down, but that’s hardly radical. From the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, to the scourge of polio before a vaccine was found, and the public hysteria o