Woodstock Happened During a Pandemic & Nobody Cared

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Woodstock Happened During a Pandemic & Nobody Cared

By Ken Webster jrMay 5, 2020

Remember Woodstock?

It was the summer of love: in 1969 a half a million people gathered together to listen to music, take drugs, have sex, roll around in the mud, and share a densely populated area for one long weekend.

And guess what? The whole thing happened during a health pandemic.

In 1968 the H3N2 pandemic came to the US from Hong Kong. It killed more than 100,000 Americans, mostly over the age of 65, which was more combined fatalities than both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.

Schools, movie theaters, bars, tattoo parlors, restaurants, and, of course, concerts venues stayed open. The stock market didn't crash, Congress didn't issue a lock down order, the Federal reserve had no involvement, there was no spike in the suicide rate, violent criminals weren't freed from jail, and nobody arrested surfers or hair stylists.

Jeffrey Tucker reports:

The only actions governments took was to collect data, watch and wait, encourage testing and vaccines, and so on. The medical community took the primary responsibility for disease mitigation, as one might expect. It was widely assumed that diseases require medical not political responses.

It’s not as if we had governments unwilling to intervene in other matters. We had the Vietnam War, social welfare, public housing, urban renewal, and the rise of Medicare and Medicaid. We had a president swearing to cure all poverty, illiteracy, and disease. Government was as intrusive as it had ever been in history. But for some reason, there was no thought given to shutdowns.

Which raises the question: why was this different? We will be trying to figure this one out for decades.

WHITE LAKE, NY - AUGUST 17: The crowd is pictured at the Woodstock Music Festival in White Lake, NY on Aug. 17, 1969. (Photo by Daniel Wolf/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

[matchingmole]

Still don't care..

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by matchingmole

Still don't care..

you have been spared death by His Majesty The Lord Emperor Donald, Supreme Ruler of the Multiverse.


every day you live in the glory of America it is due to His Majesty!! now bow down to your Emperor!!!



BAHHAHAAAA

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by matchingmole

Still don't care..

mm, question is.... why do you not care?


CV19 flu is not all that different from the Hong Kong Flue.


1.6 million people died from that in 1968.

[Jackie S]

The Internet did not exist in this days. Nor did Twitter, or Facebook.

I did not get to go to Woodstock. I had a prior engagement, thanks to my Uncle Sam.

[friendly fred]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

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Woodstock Happened During a Pandemic & Nobody Cared

By Ken Webster jrMay 5, 2020

Remember Woodstock?

It was the summer of love: in 1969 a half a million people gathered together to listen to music, take drugs, have sex, roll around in the mud, and share a densely populated area for one long weekend.

And guess what? The whole thing happened during a health pandemic.

In 1968 the H3N2 pandemic came to the US from Hong Kong. It killed more than 100,000 Americans, mostly over the age of 65, which was more combined fatalities than both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.

Schools, movie theaters, bars, tattoo parlors, restaurants, and, of course, concerts venues stayed open. The stock market didn't crash, Congress didn't issue a lock down order, the Federal reserve had no involvement, there was no spike in the suicide rate, violent criminals weren't freed from jail, and nobody arrested surfers or hair stylists.

Jeffrey Tucker reports:

The only actions governments took was to collect data, watch and wait, encourage testing and vaccines, and so on. The medical community took the primary responsibility for disease mitigation, as one might expect. It was widely assumed that diseases require medical not political responses.

It’s not as if we had governments unwilling to intervene in other matters. We had the Vietnam War, social welfare, public housing, urban renewal, and the rise of Medicare and Medicaid. We had a president swearing to cure all poverty, illiteracy, and disease. Government was as intrusive as it had ever been in history. But for some reason, there was no thought given to shutdowns.

Which raises the question: why was this different? We will be trying to figure this one out for decades.

WHITE LAKE, NY - AUGUST 17: The crowd is pictured at the Woodstock Music Festival in White Lake, NY on Aug. 17, 1969. (Photo by Daniel Wolf/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Excellent points!

Maybe we weren't a bunch of pussies back then?

[oeb11]

Originally Posted by matchingmole

Still don't care..

Why Bother?????

[SpeedRacerXXX]

Originally Posted by Jackie S

The Internet did not exist in this days. Nor did Twitter, or Facebook.

I did not get to go to Woodstock. I had a prior engagement, thanks to my Uncle Sam.

I too was in the army at the time but happened to be home in NY at the time, about 90 miles or so from Woodstock. Saw people hitchhiking to the event but I had no idea what was going on. One guy in my company actually went to Woodstock.

Different times.

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by oeb11

Why Bother?????

you like that mole! bahahahahaha