This is Something to Think About 03.18.20 “Looking Back to the 1918 Spanish Flu Outbreak”
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Bill Bunkley’s “This Is Something to Think About”
Air Date Wednesday, March 18, 2020
“Looking Back to the 1918 Spanish Flu Outbreak”
Bill Bunkley with Something to Think About
You have heard that knowledge is power. You have heard, “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
No two more powerful sayings apply to the current coronavirus threat.
In 1918 the Spanish Flu plague was thought to have also originated in China. 50 to 100 million people died.
WWI returning troops brought it back to America. In Philadelphia, officials ignored the flu threat, held a huge War Bond parade with hundreds of returning veterans. As a result of the parade’s “community spread,” thousands died.
The 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak spike matches today’s potential coronavirus spike.
History is speaking today. Let’s not fail to learn from history and condemned ourselves to repeat it.
Heed history’s warning…..and we lower the contagion spike for all of us.
I’m Bill Bunkley. Catch my show weekdays at 3. Get the latest local and Florida updates by following us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram @FaithTalkTampa
Bill Bunkley is a 14-year veteran Salem Radio Network talk show host based in west-central Florida, airing weekdays 3 to 6 PM. Bill is also President of the Florida Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, which serves as legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention (Southern Baptist Churches throughout Florida), among other churches and entities. He has served as legislative consultant to the Convention for the last 24 years at the state capitol in Tallahassee.
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