Show Notes

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There's a lot of justification for tanking the American economy amid the coronavirus pandemic by those who say we did the same thing during the Spanish Flu in 1918. The truth is eye-opening. Phil Valentine calls bovine scatology on that. 
 

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• Origins of the Spanish Flu
   

• Lessons the Spanish Flu taught the world
   

• How 50 cities around the country reacted to the Spanish Flu
   

• How some cities flattened the curve
   

• Milwaukee closed churches and schools, but not saloons
   

• Public health interventions in 1918
   

• What the 1918 pandemic can teach us
   

• BBC: Coronavirus economic damage could be worse than Great Depression
   

• Channel 4: Economic impact of shutdowns in UK
   

• Economist Steve Moore predicts another Great Depression if economy is closed for four months