Hearted Youtube comments on TimeGhost History (@TimeGhost) channel.
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I run history site visits ( what used to be called school excursions) for Secondary / High Schools. A couple of the sites we visit are Victorian / Edwardian and later cemeteries on the North Shore of Sydney. A large percentage of burials in these cemeteries took place between 1919 and 1921. Your explanation of how the combined affects of WW1 and Spanish Influenza affected society, through the example of a school, is so good, that if you don't mind - I'd like to borrow it, please! :-D .
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - thank you for coming up with such a lucid, powerful and clear explanation of this tragedy. I think that in order to explain this in future history tours, while we are in the relevant part of the cemetery, I am going to get a school group to go through in in single file, count every fifth student out, and tell them to go off to a separate group. Once they are all sorted - the one in five group I will ask to lay down on the ground for a minute....then tell all of them:
" If you want to know what WW1 and Spanish influenza did, look at your classmates laying on the ground. They represent all of the young people, as a percentage of your group, who didn't make it."
" Then imagine that it wasn't just your form that was affected - it was every form in your school, where this kind of numbers, are dead, at random. Then imagine, just for a minute, that it is not just your school - it is EVERY school..... "
"About one in five of all of the young people under thirty, in the world at that time, died, in about the same time frame as it takes as you starting and finishing high school, with the biggest numbers dying in waves, towards the end before graduation. Unlike most kinds of the 'flu, which kill about one person in a thousand who is usually either very, very young, old, or already sick, this nasty version was good at killing young, strong adults, because it tends to cause their immune systems to over react, particularly to the infection in the lungs, causing them to stop breathing."
" 40% of the Australian population, were infected with this disease. In some Aboriginal communities - the death rate was up to 50%. Every one of those people who died, either by not returning from the war, or dying from the 'flu, had family, friends, and people they were connected to.
"Now you have an inkling of the sheer amount of heartbreak involved - and how much EVERYTHING was changed, because of it!"
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@TimeGhost @Spartacus Olsson Thank you both for your replies. I figured it as much, that it would be impossible to assign a single event that put the world in the path of WW2. But this is a much scarier thought, as Spartacus pointed out, if it is millions and millions of decisions big and small that came together to launch the war, then we have to watch every decision we make, every action or inaction that countries make. We are living in a better era today, but everything can change tomorrow. This series teaches us that peace can only be obtained when we as a society actively pursue it.
Once again, thank you for your hard work Indy and team, See you over at WW2 channel. By the way, the Ending of the episode, you always had such a flare for dramatic Indy. Goosebumps, just incredible.
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