Pale Rider The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

I think Spanish flu is a very good example because Spanish flu, I remember reviewing a book about the Spanish flu about three or four years ago called Pale Rider by Laura Spinney, a brilliant book actually, really interesting book.

in his inaugural letter to his new diocese Alvario Ibalano wrote that men should actively seek God and truth which were the same thing and expressed a surprise that science seemed to advance and step with a determination to turn away from God the light of reason was weak and modern society's mistake contempt for God's law for progress he wrote of dark forces that wish to reject God or even annihilate him if that were possible

During the first wave of the pandemic the country's inspector general of health Martin Salazar had lamented the inability of a bureaucratic and underfunded health system to prevent the disease from spreading Though provincial health committees took their lead from his directorate they had no powers of enforcement and they quickly came up against what he described as the terrible pig-nurance of the populace the failure to grasp for example that an infected person on the move would transmit the disease

On 30 September Bishop Alvario Ibalanio defied the health authorities by ordering a Novena evening prayers on nine consecutive days in honor of Saint Rocco the patron saint of plague and pestilence because the evil that had befallen Zamoraos was due to our sins and ingratitude for which the avenging arm of eternal justice has been brought down upon us

as in other towns and villages the decision was taken to stop bringing the church bells and eulogy of the dead in case the constant tolling of the dead was threatened to people but in other places funeral processions had also been banned not in Zamora where mourners continued to pass through the narrow streets as the den of the bells gave way to silence even in normal times coffins white ones for children were a luxury beyond the means of most now would for coffins was hard for anyone to come by and the bloated blackened remains of the deceased were transported to their final resting place draped only in a shroud in an echo of the ritual burning of incense to purify the altar gunpowder was sprinkled in the streets and set a light and approaching funeral cortege could thus be perceived only dimly through the choking black smoke mixed at times with the fog that rose from the duero in those cool autumn days the town must have looked as if it were on fire one historian noted

in his inaugural letter to his new diocese Alvario Ibalano wrote that men should actively seek God and truth which were the same thing and expressed a surprise that science seemed to advance and step with a determination to turn away from God the light of reason was weak and modern society's mistake contempt for God's law for progress he wrote of dark forces that wish to reject God or even annihilate him if that were possible

During the first wave of the pandemic the country's inspector general of health Martin Salazar had lamented the inability of a bureaucratic and underfunded health system to prevent the disease from spreading Though provincial health committees took their lead from his directorate they had no powers of enforcement and they quickly came up against what he described as the terrible pig-nurance of the populace the failure to grasp for example that an infected person on the move would transmit the disease

On 30 September Bishop Alvario Ibalanio defied the health authorities by ordering a Novena evening prayers on nine consecutive days in honor of Saint Rocco the patron saint of plague and pestilence because the evil that had befallen Zamoraos was due to our sins and ingratitude for which the avenging arm of eternal justice has been brought down upon us

And his inaugural letter to his new diocese Alvario Ibalano wrote that men should actively seek God and truth which were the same thing and expressed a surprise that science seemed to advance and step with a determination to turn away from God the light of reason was weak and modern society's mistake contempt for God's law for progress he wrote of dark forces that wish to reject God or even annihilate him if that were possible

During the first wave of the pandemic the country's inspector general of health Martin Salazar had lamented the inability of a bureaucratic and underfunded health system to prevent the disease from spreading Though provincial health committees took their lead from his directorate they had no powers of enforcement and they quickly came up against what he described as the terrible pig-nurance of the populace the failure to grasp for example that an infected person on the move would transmit the disease

On 30 September Bishop Alvario Ibalanio defied the health authorities by ordering a Novena evening prayers on nine consecutive days in honor of Saint Rocco the patron saint of plague and pestilence because the evil that had befallen Zamoraos was due to our sins and ingratitude for which the avenging arm of eternal justice has been brought down upon us

as in other towns and villages the decision was taken to stop bringing the church bells and eulogy of the dead in case the constant tolling of the dead was threatened to people but in other places funeral processions had also been banned not in Zamora where mourners continued to pass through the narrow streets as the den of the bells gave way to silence even in normal times coffins white ones for children were a luxury beyond the means of most now would for coffins was hard for anyone to come by and the bloated blackened remains of the deceased were transported to their final resting place draped only in a shroud in an echo of the ritual burning of incense to purify the altar gunpowder was sprinkled in the streets and set a light and approaching funeral cortege could thus be perceived only dimly through the choking black smoke mixed at times with the fog that rose from the duero in those cool autumn days the town must have looked as if it were on fire one historian noted

in his inaugural letter to his new diocese Alvario Ibalano wrote that men should actively seek God and truth which were the same thing and expressed a surprise that science seemed to advance and step with a determination to turn away from God the light of reason was weak and modern society's mistake contempt for God's law for progress he wrote of dark forces that wish to reject God or even annihilate him if that were possible

During the first wave of the pandemic the country's inspector general of health Martin Salazar had lamented the inability of a bureaucratic and underfunded health system to prevent the disease from spreading Though provincial health committees took their lead from his directorate they had no powers of enforcement and they quickly came up against what he described as the terrible pig-nurance of the populace the failure to grasp for example that an infected person on the move would transmit the disease

On 30 September Bishop Alvario Ibalanio defied the health authorities by ordering a Novena evening prayers on nine consecutive days in honor of Saint Rocco the patron saint of plague and pestilence because the evil that had befallen Zamoraos was due to our sins and ingratitude for which the avenging arm of eternal justice has been brought down upon us

as in other towns and villages the decision was taken to stop bringing the church bells and eulogy of the dead in case the constant tolling of the dead was threatened to people but in other places funeral processions had also been banned not in Zamora where mourners continued to pass through the narrow streets as the den of the bells gave way to silence even in normal times coffins white ones for children were a luxury beyond the means of most now would for coffins was hard for anyone to come by and the bloated blackened remains of the deceased were transported to their final resting place draped only in a shroud in an echo of the ritual burning of incense to purify the altar gunpowder was sprinkled in the streets and set a light and approaching funeral cortege could thus be perceived only dimly through the choking black smoke mixed at times with the fog that rose from the duero in those cool autumn days the town must have looked as if it were on fire one historian noted

Consulted with Laura spinny who is an author she wrote pale writer the Spanish flu of 1918 and how it changed the world

human beings in general need to feel a sense of control Over whatever is afflicting them. That's just a perennial truth

human beings in general need to feel a sense of control Over whatever is afflicting them. That's just a perennial truth