“In fact, of all the major cities in the country, San Francisco had confronted the fall wave most honestly and efficiently.”pic.twitter.com/ZtF4Cu9WPr
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“The next day the Chronicle crowed that in the city’s history “one of the most thrilling episodes will be the story of how gallantly the city of Saint Francis behaved when the black wings of war-bred pestilence hovered over the city.” They thought that they had controlled it.pic.twitter.com/KG5U0U6ttm
“They were mistaken. The masks were useless. The vaccine was useless. The city had simply been lucky. Two weeks later, the third wave struck.”pic.twitter.com/MeALcn01cW
From John Barry’s history of the 1918 pandemic:https://www.amazon.com/Great-Influenza-Deadliest-Pandemic-History/dp/0143036491 …
.@peterhartlaub also wrote a great story a few weeks ago on this history in the @sfchronicle:https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-s-1918-Spanish-flu-debacle-A-15191518.php …
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