With so many gullible people believing the world is going to end on December 21st Balladeer’s Blog has been examining various end-of-the- world scenarios from popular belief.
Throw in the fact that I’ve been flat on my back with a horrible case of the flu the past few days (and am going to a doctor about it tomorrow since it won’t go away) and it got me thinking about the global Spanish influenza pandemic from approximately 1918 to 1920.
The photo in the upper right is of mass graves being dug for flu victims who died in Philadelphia. The flu killed even more people than World War One killed and since we are all familiar with the idea of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it should be no suprise to hear that many believed that the End Times were at hand since the Horsemen known as war, pestilence and death were well accounted for.
Famine was accounted for because, well, not to be callous about it, but there is always starvation somewhere in the world so End Times true believers had plenty of “evidence” of the Four Horsemen riding the land.
Estimates of the number of dead from the flu went as high as 130 million people, with possibly 500 million at one time stricken with the bug as it swarmed the globe. The world did not end, however. The doomsayers were once again proven wrong and eventually more wars, famines and plagues came along without precipitating the end of the world.
So I’ll return to sleeping, about the only thing I’ve been able to do lately.
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Maybe its the dreaded man flu you have , check for man flu here.
http://jokesandhumourworld.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/man-flu/#comment-693
Ha! Harry, you’re always a riot!
Loads of smoochies to aid in your recovery!!!
I still find it funny how people think there is a twenty-four hour flu. Personally, I think food poisoning will cause the end of the world!!!!
Ok. That is not really true. But you never know!
Thanks for the well wishes!!!! You’re the best!
I like the idea of a Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse being the Horseman of Food Poisoning!
Poor Ed…I hate the flu so you have all my sympathies. Actually come December I’m heading for Vancouver to find the Supernatual set and get The Boys to protect me.
Thanks Jo! I appreciate it! I hope the boys are able to protect you!
Pish tosh…we are talking about The Boys here…
That’s true! I’m sure they’ll have no problem!
Especially not when they see the T-shirt I will be wearing.
Uh oh …
I haven’t got it yet. A fellow blogger in the USA saw them online for sale for a day and ordered me one for Xmas. HOW COOL IS THAT !!!! It is soooooooooo cool. I’ll be wearing The Boys next to my skin….oh happy days.
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LOL You are such a character! That is great that that person ordered it for you!!
I know !!!!!!!!!!!!
Blew me completely away when she e-mailed me with the news and a photo of it. People can be so cool. Oh and as a BTW…another blogging friend fell hard for the picture of Charlie:
http://jobryantnz.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/travel-theme-silhouette/
So very cheekily I e-mailed her a jpg (with my signature – sort of) and she is getting it printed to hang in her home. Very soon the USA will be mine !!!!!
That’s the truth! It’s the KiwiAussie invasion!
Oh yes it is…you better watch out…hehehehe…cause I’m a coming…and I don’t mean in THE good way.
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LOL I’ll consider myself forewarned!
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I can understand why people were freaked by all the death and misery.
I agree with that
Creepy feeling thinking about a flu killing more people than a war.
Isn’t it, though?
Nobody dies of the flu, dude.
Yes they do, dude .All the time in fact.
Eerie. That really must have freaked people out back then.
It certainly seems to have!
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Thanks for another great post.
No problem at all.
Hi there I am luvving ur end of the world blogs.
Thank you for letting me know.
People thought everything was the end of the world coming didnt they
Yes, they most certainly did!
A disease that killed more than the war did?
Yes, I’m afraid so.
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Merci beaucoup!
Always another end of the world scare. Do you believe this nonsense?
No, that’s why I started posting these, to show how many false end of the world panics there have been.
Everything is the end of the world.
I know it sure seems that way.