Comments by "Faithless Hound" (@faithlesshound5621) on "Incredible FLU REMEDIES from 1959 | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive" video.

  1. The brown paper that "old wives" used in the 18th and 19th centuries was much thicker and coarser than what we have now, and more suitable for soaking up an ointment such as goose fat to apply to the skin. Mustard was used externally as a "counter-irritant" when the part underneath was inflamed inside. The other way that cartoons used to show it used was to sit at home with your feet soaking in a basin or "mustard bath." A lot of pre-modern medicine aimed to do something dramatic and visible to the body: to make you sweat, vomit, bleed, have diarrhoea, etc. Part of the appeal of homoeopathy was that their super-dilute medicines did NOT do any of that.
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  2. Without a 'flu' vaccine, that's the other thing that works best. During covid19 the incidence of flu (and many other infections) dropped, and the flu season was shortened, because people kept their distance, washed their hands and wore masks.
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  3.  @BadgerBotherer1  Flu still exists, and has bounced back since social distancing was relaxed.
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  4. A shortened version of "Jolly good show."
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  5.  @MrBannystar  The 'flu' season was not abandoned: flu vaccines continued to be administered, but the addition of masks and social distancing reduced the rates of transmission and shortened the flu season as a whole. The same thing happened to many notifiable infectious diseases: measles, mumps, rubella, enteric fever, food poisoning, meningitis, etc, etc. Deaths on the roads also plummeted when few of us were travelling. Social distancing saved lives, so it's time for the snowflakes in the West to start wearing masks when unwell or vulnerable like people do in the Far East. The aspect that many have forgotten about is hand washing: we need facilities for that in both take-away and sit-down catering, and not just hidden away in an unsavoury lavatory.
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