{"id":3327,"date":"2020-10-07T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2020-10-07T15:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:55:29","slug":"tess-keating-blog-post-for-10-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/10\/07\/tess-keating-blog-post-for-10-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Keating Blog Post for 10\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

The video, \u201cCOVID-19 vs. Spanish Flu – If You Don’t Know, Now You Know\u201d, is a prime example of the idea that learning from history is necessary. In the introduction of the segment it is stated that \u201chardly anyone alive has seen a pandemic like this before\u201d, and this is the reason why the world is struggling with it so much. With what we have seen from the reaction to COVID-19 by Americans, it seems like this is the first pandemic to have ever existed. There are shocking similarities in how the nation reacted (and is reacting) to COVID-19. For example, the federal government downplaying it. Woodrow Wilson downplayed the Spanish Flu, and in a striking similar fashion Donald Trump has\/is downplaying COVID-19. This was done in order to not cause citizens to be alarmed, however in both cases it did more harm than good. One would think that the response to COVID-19 would be better than a pandemic over 100 years ago, however it seems that history was not looked back upon. Everyone knows that you are supposed to learn from history, especially the mistakes in history. Trevor Noah states, \u201cso far America has made all the same mistakes with Corona that it did with the Spanish Flu\u201d. Americans need to figure out how to learn from history, and fast, otherwise we are bound to fall into the trap of continuing to repeat the worst part of history\u2013\u2013 the second wave. COVID-19 is on track to model all that happened during the Spanish Flu, and if we don\u2019t make changes to our response, the worst is yet to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is up to the federal government, especially the President, to make these changes (quickly) because, \u201cit is not too late to learn from history\u201d (Noah). Right now, and going forward, what the United States needs is a leader who is going to take his job seriously, especially when it comes to the lives of thousands of Americans. The biggest problem the United States faces is that there are citizens who \u201cdon\u2019t believe in the virus\u201d and this idea was ignited by the President denying its severity and not doing all he could do to inform the citizens of how to act in response to it. We are where we are today because of the mistakes made at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and if things don\u2019t change quickly, it doesn\u2019t look likely that we will get out of it anytime soon. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The video, \u201cCOVID-19 vs. Spanish Flu – If You Don’t Know, Now You Know\u201d, is a prime example of the idea that learning from history…<\/p>\n

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