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The Mercury News
105-year-old Calif. woman who lived through Spanish Flu receives vaccine, warns of difficult times to come
"She saw it all — the Roaring Twenties in Weimar-era Berlin, the collapse of the world economy, hyperinflation, the rise of the Nazi Party in the '30s in Dresden and the loss of everything her family had worked for at the end of World War II."
"For instance, my brother — who is six years younger than I — he liked the Nazis because they did all kinds of things for young people," she said. "Young people liked Hitler. They all went to the bonfires in the evening. They all sang nationalistic songs. We were sad for them not only because we lost them to him but because we knew he needed them for cannon fodder."
And if you don't think 105 year old Ursula is worth listening to, perhaps the New York Federal Reserve has a bit of advice you may find interesting:
Pandemics Change Cities: Municipal Spending and Voter Extremism in Germany, 1918-1933
Abstract
This paper uses several historical data-sets from Germany to show that influenza mortality in 1918-1920 was correlated with (i) lower per-capita spending, especially on services consumed by the young, in the following decade and (ii) the share of votes received by extremist parties in 1932 and 1933. These results are robust when controlling for demographics, population changes, city-level wages, city-level exposure to hyperinflation in 1923, and regional unemployment, and when instrumenting influenza mortality.
Ultimately, it is possible that changes in public sentiment, encouraged by anti-semitic and antiminority propaganda, drove the observed correlations between right-wing voting and influenza mortality. Following Voigtländer and Voth (2012a), I show that the link between influenza mortality and the vote share won by right-wing extremists was stronger in regions that had historically blamed minorities, particularly Jews, for medieval plagues.
---Simply put, it appears that the kind of people who vigorously and militantly rebel against public health directives like masks and social distancing are more susceptible to being influenced by far Right extremism and have a predilection toward violence against almost any group that is labeled as an enemy BY far Right extremist leadership figures.
"Jewish inhabitants of towns were frequently blamed for plagues throughout history; most notably the black death in 1350. Following the spread of the black death, many communities persecuted and killed their Jewish minority populations. Voigtländer and Voth (2012a) show that such antisemitism, at the community level, persisted until the early 20th century. It is possible that the correlation between influenza mortality and right-wing extremist voting should be greater in areas pre-disposed towards hatred of their minority population, especially following the outbreak of disease."
---This national trauma that we are experiencing is nothing new, it dates all the way back prior to modern civilization.
It's medieval hocus pocus. Qanon is medieval hocus pocus, the only difference is, it's turbocharged by internet social media and it's well funded by greedy oligarchs.
105-year-old Calif. woman who lived through Spanish Flu receives vaccine, warns of difficult times to come
"She saw it all — the Roaring Twenties in Weimar-era Berlin, the collapse of the world economy, hyperinflation, the rise of the Nazi Party in the '30s in Dresden and the loss of everything her family had worked for at the end of World War II."
"For instance, my brother — who is six years younger than I — he liked the Nazis because they did all kinds of things for young people," she said. "Young people liked Hitler. They all went to the bonfires in the evening. They all sang nationalistic songs. We were sad for them not only because we lost them to him but because we knew he needed them for cannon fodder."
And if you don't think 105 year old Ursula is worth listening to, perhaps the New York Federal Reserve has a bit of advice you may find interesting:
Pandemics Change Cities: Municipal Spending and Voter Extremism in Germany, 1918-1933
Abstract
This paper uses several historical data-sets from Germany to show that influenza mortality in 1918-1920 was correlated with (i) lower per-capita spending, especially on services consumed by the young, in the following decade and (ii) the share of votes received by extremist parties in 1932 and 1933. These results are robust when controlling for demographics, population changes, city-level wages, city-level exposure to hyperinflation in 1923, and regional unemployment, and when instrumenting influenza mortality.
Ultimately, it is possible that changes in public sentiment, encouraged by anti-semitic and antiminority propaganda, drove the observed correlations between right-wing voting and influenza mortality. Following Voigtländer and Voth (2012a), I show that the link between influenza mortality and the vote share won by right-wing extremists was stronger in regions that had historically blamed minorities, particularly Jews, for medieval plagues.
---Simply put, it appears that the kind of people who vigorously and militantly rebel against public health directives like masks and social distancing are more susceptible to being influenced by far Right extremism and have a predilection toward violence against almost any group that is labeled as an enemy BY far Right extremist leadership figures.
"Jewish inhabitants of towns were frequently blamed for plagues throughout history; most notably the black death in 1350. Following the spread of the black death, many communities persecuted and killed their Jewish minority populations. Voigtländer and Voth (2012a) show that such antisemitism, at the community level, persisted until the early 20th century. It is possible that the correlation between influenza mortality and right-wing extremist voting should be greater in areas pre-disposed towards hatred of their minority population, especially following the outbreak of disease."
---This national trauma that we are experiencing is nothing new, it dates all the way back prior to modern civilization.
It's medieval hocus pocus. Qanon is medieval hocus pocus, the only difference is, it's turbocharged by internet social media and it's well funded by greedy oligarchs.
