Hong Kong Flu
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Professor George Dehner is a world environmental historian who examines the intersection of humans and disease in the modern era. We talked about the great flu pandemics of the later 20th Century, 1968 and 1976.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome down to those history here. |
| 0:02.0 | It's got a treat for you today. |
| 0:03.0 | We're going to be talking about some of the lesser known |
| 0:05.0 | influenza pandemics the 20th century. |
| 0:07.0 | What lessons can we learn from those outbreaks |
| 0:10.0 | in the second half of the 20th century? |
| 0:13.0 | Gonna be fascinating stuff. |
| 0:14.0 | Just before I do, though, I want to address some of the criticism |
| 0:16.0 | that's been coming in particularly from some American listeners. |
| 0:18.0 | They say, why does this guy, why does this British guy talk about |
| 0:21.0 | so much about US politics? |
| 0:22.0 | What's he got to do with him? |
| 0:23.0 | And this is what it's got to do with me. |
| 0:25.0 | What happens in America massively impacts the rest of the world? |
| 0:28.0 | Your adgemonic power, you guys are in charge. |
| 0:31.0 | You call your president the leader of the free world. |
| 0:33.0 | Well, I'm in the free world. |
| 0:34.0 | The rest of us are in it. |
| 0:35.0 | We're the citizens. |
| 0:36.0 | When you land on the moon, we land on the moon. |
| 0:38.0 | One small step for mankind. |
| 0:39.0 | We're mankind. |
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