The 1918 Flu Pandemic - Order More Coffins - Part 3 - Extra History

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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  6 ปีที่แล้ว +870

    In Philadelphia, the mayor and his health officials are telling the press that the outbreak is nearly over. They continue doing so, day after day, as the death toll mounts and hospital wards fill.
    NEWS: We're running a Patreon poll right now to vote on a future Extra History series! www.patreon.com/posts/20181708

    • @thatguygaming1237
      @thatguygaming1237 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Extra Credits hey, thank you for doing what you do

    • @abdullahabu6439
      @abdullahabu6439 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Extra Credits talk about the 1897 ottoman greek war and tell the truth about the ottoman victory of they were always victorious.

    • @abdullahabu6439
      @abdullahabu6439 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Talk about Sultan Mehmed Al Fatih (the conqueror) and Sultan Abdulhamid II.

    • @Andrew-bd5th
      @Andrew-bd5th 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Could you make a series about Voltaire?

    • @finnishguy4002
      @finnishguy4002 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Extra Credits k

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3937

    The descriptions of Drs. Park and Williams make me wonder how this hasn't been turned into a historical medical thriller/drama or anything. You've got your cast of quirky characters, your world-ending stakes, a second-act darkest hour, and even enough characters to shoehorn in a pointless, annoying romance subplot. It's all the pieces you need for a TV series!

    • @ОлегКозлов-ю9т
      @ОлегКозлов-ю9т 6 ปีที่แล้ว +308

      Timothy McLean Park&Williams even sounds catchy

    • @exodmaster2702
      @exodmaster2702 6 ปีที่แล้ว +262

      Simple: the government did so much wrong, that no patriotic American would make such a movie. And whilst it was bad outside of America, it wasn’t nearly as bad and thrilling, since they acknowledged the epidemic and reacted much better (i.e. didn’t let thousands of civilians get infected, for no good reason and strategically denied the truth)

    • @XavierZara
      @XavierZara 6 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Make it a one-shot TV series on PBS or History Channel

    • @villehammar7858
      @villehammar7858 6 ปีที่แล้ว +280

      +Exodmaster Hollywood has been doing movies where the sensible scientist heroes can't get the self-serving short-sighted politicians and government officials to listen to reason forever, they could easily make one more!

    • @arturoreyescortez2476
      @arturoreyescortez2476 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Now I am thinking about this story being adapted by Christopher Nolan.

  • @shrimpisdelicious
    @shrimpisdelicious 6 ปีที่แล้ว +474

    I gotta say that I have a lot of respect for Welch’s professionalism. He felt the symptoms, identified them, and quick as he could isolated himself so that he st least wouldn’t spread the flu.
    That had to be terrifying, but he did it anyway.

    • @benedict6962
      @benedict6962 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      When you're a doctor neck deep in the corpses of people who died to the same sickness, at some point you will think about what you would do if you caught it yourself.

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      True heroism isn't about the glorious path, but simply understanding one's place in the larger picture and doing what needs to be done regardless of personal risk or cost.

    • @angelcollina
      @angelcollina 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      He must have suffered so horribly...

    • @emminet
      @emminet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Truly heroic. I wish others understood this as COVID continues to ravage the world.

  • @faffywhosmilesatdeath5953
    @faffywhosmilesatdeath5953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    7:59 "In Philadelphia, the mayor and his health officials are telling the press that the outbreak is nearly over. They continue doing so day after day as the death toll mounts and hospital wards fill."
    A century later and we haven't learned anything.

  • @thevoidlookspretty7079
    @thevoidlookspretty7079 6 ปีที่แล้ว +826

    Only Welch, master of doctoring, could stop the plague. But when America needed him most, he vanished.

  • @justinrboyett
    @justinrboyett 4 ปีที่แล้ว +824

    100 years later... here we are.

    • @sdgdhpmbp
      @sdgdhpmbp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      And we better hope we don't get to the point of running out of coffins... except the leader of the biggest world power today, and undeniably the most influential nation in the world, is Donald J Trump.
      Holy shit.

    • @sweetrevange
      @sweetrevange 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@sdgdhpmbp and here we are, with Italy running out of coffins

    • @Spooky_man
      @Spooky_man 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Unlike 1918 the world reacted fast and early... remember in 1918 doctor didnt know the existence of spanish flu...some months later when they found out they were past the point we’re at... also when they found outnation denied the existence and made the outbreak worse! The world have learned from past mistakes...

    • @Varifyr
      @Varifyr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This still sounds too similar.

    • @Kaboomboo
      @Kaboomboo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@sdgdhpmbp You spelled Nancy Pelosi wrong.

  • @DerMangoJoghurt
    @DerMangoJoghurt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +797

    This episode summed up:
    Doctors: "This is bad, we need to do something!"
    Everybody else: "Nah"

    • @TornadoADV
      @TornadoADV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Welcome to Humanity, it's what we do.

    • @katm2140
      @katm2140 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      One year later... yeah, apparently that's just how we do in the face of disease. Who knew.

    • @michalispachitis9941
      @michalispachitis9941 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@katm2140 scary stuff, during this coronavirus outbreak, watching this video scares me

    • @galil_6863
      @galil_6863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Everybody else (2 days later): **dies**

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Media: "this coronavirus is just a normal flu, don't panic, or the stocks will drop too fast, so die silently"

  • @SECONDQUEST
    @SECONDQUEST 6 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    This is why there are stockpiles of coffins. Not because "they" have a "plan", but because we've run out of coffins repeatedly throughout history. And boy were those times terrible.

  • @tamar7065
    @tamar7065 6 ปีที่แล้ว +632

    I wish my history classes had gone into more detail on this. It was handwaved as "overcrowding" or "trench conditions" as if these problems just _Were,_ with little to no emphasis given to just how many people had to ignore the writing on the wall and refuse to listen to trained medical experts in order for it to get as bad as it did.

    • @pendlera2959
      @pendlera2959 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      It's shocking how many problems, both modern and historical, are treated that way.

    • @Ratchet4647
      @Ratchet4647 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Which is why series like this one should be part of the curriculum. They are frequently more interesting, making it easier for unengaged students to pay attention and learn, they pay respect to the context of the history, and will be a useful tool in teaching students who do better with audio/visual/audio-visual learning.

    • @bombader2677
      @bombader2677 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'd like to think that our cumulative knowledge of those historical times has evolved since we were in school, not to mention what public school deems appropriate to teach within their limited time for such broad topics.

    • @TornadoADV
      @TornadoADV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You want to learn about the history and practice of the medical sciences, take a class on it. You're acting like governments are actively surpressing knowledge of the Spanish Flu.

    • @tamar7065
      @tamar7065 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      **shrug** IDK if any specific government is or isn't suppressing that information, and wasn't making any claims to that effect. My sole point was that it's very enlightening information that changes one's perspective of the thing.

  • @TheKulu42
    @TheKulu42 6 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    It's amazing how public officials were so utterly engrossed in the war effort, they ignored a crisis which could severely undermine it.

    • @Nonsense010688
      @Nonsense010688 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      and end up being more deadly, especially for the US, then the war.

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Our government responding to things before it's a crisis is the exception, not the rule...
      We really need to work on that.

    • @Nonsense010688
      @Nonsense010688 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      easier said then done.
      Many reason governments act this way is because the public usually rewards it.
      Let alone the fact that while in government you may see warnings like that and nothing happen afterwards.
      So... you basically have to change basic human behavior.

    • @TheKulu42
      @TheKulu42 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed. They'll avoid spending more money until the last moment.

    • @theresahall6197
      @theresahall6197 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Nonsense010688 well if the public knew the truth they never stand for it so they keep as much as possible under wraps because it is easier for them.

  • @HxH2011DRA
    @HxH2011DRA 6 ปีที่แล้ว +461

    Things just got 5000× more dramatic. I was screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" when the doctor got sick!
    Also why isn't there a movie on all these cool cats?

    • @lylemata6672
      @lylemata6672 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Theres a game its called Vampyr

    • @peggymwanza4000
      @peggymwanza4000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Corona Virus: hold my beer

  • @altofmoleperson
    @altofmoleperson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    This channel is actually kind of underrated. I mean, these are adults putting the occasional meme into history in a way that isn’t cringe. They make history genuinely interesting. I’m here for it.

  • @루라라-l5l
    @루라라-l5l 4 ปีที่แล้ว +311

    Even how Welch died shows how great of a man he was...he self-quarantined for weeks in pain in order to stop the spread. A true hero.

    • @multiio1424
      @multiio1424 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Yeah he was a hero, but he didn't die there. He survived and recovered.

    • @mariustan9275
      @mariustan9275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@multiio1424 Better

    • @mateocabral1660
      @mateocabral1660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      t\The best part is that he didn't die.

  • @DragoniteSpam
    @DragoniteSpam 6 ปีที่แล้ว +276

    I've got to say, Dan's chipmunk voice was pretty cool but Matt's voice is FANTASTIC for super-serious tones.

    • @mrpellagra2730
      @mrpellagra2730 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      DragoniteSpam i miss danimation

    • @MrTNTdestruction
      @MrTNTdestruction 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Wait, is Dan no longer working with them? Or are they just diversifying their narrators?

    • @bellringer53
      @bellringer53 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      In my opinion nothing will beat Dan's line from the Seminal Tragedy 'And a month later, a million men are dead. The Seminal Catastrophe has begun.'
      Too many tragedies are caused by humanity's pride in the face of chaos....

  • @asalways1504
    @asalways1504 6 ปีที่แล้ว +338

    I have seen such a suspenseful battle since John Snow went against cholera.

    • @finnishguy4002
      @finnishguy4002 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      You know nothing, As Always

    • @JonathanLundkvist
      @JonathanLundkvist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The ending of this is what I feared would happen to John Snow. Also John Snow series was the best.

    • @DraconicWasTaken
      @DraconicWasTaken 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You know nothing, As Always.

    • @zbeavermanz4277
      @zbeavermanz4277 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Cholera is coming

  • @bobbertcanuck1935
    @bobbertcanuck1935 6 ปีที่แล้ว +315

    You know you're in trouble when you literally run out of coffins.

    • @nathanseper8738
      @nathanseper8738 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And when your top doctor falls ill.

    • @mikitz
      @mikitz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      A good notion that only America was running out of coffins at the time...

    • @IceLordCryo
      @IceLordCryo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You know you're in trouble when history starts repeating itself

    • @_TRICKZ_
      @_TRICKZ_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well now we know that

  • @alexandremagalhaes1774
    @alexandremagalhaes1774 6 ปีที่แล้ว +331

    The coffin industry was a booming!

    • @beretperson
      @beretperson 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Melkor 237 all that coughing sure helped the coffin industry

    • @sphericalscrabble2476
      @sphericalscrabble2476 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But everyone else was dead.

    • @collin1061
      @collin1061 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      How can u have a coffin industry when most of the population is dead

    • @spindash64
      @spindash64 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      now that you mention it, that's probably a better way of dealing with an epidemic

    • @llSuperSnivyll
      @llSuperSnivyll 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can't have a booming industry if you suddenly run out of material.

  • @w.kelleyobrien459
    @w.kelleyobrien459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +600

    Checking in from the future (2020) to say: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

    • @Juliuscaesar0315
      @Juliuscaesar0315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      AHHHHHHHH EVERUTHING SUCKS

    • @dallasrover5515
      @dallasrover5515 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Right? This feels so freakishly familiar.

    • @cookiemuffin3208
      @cookiemuffin3208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      ayyy 2021 update, here in the US our politicians are fuckinh stupid and it's getting worse for us

    • @Courageous91
      @Courageous91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Checking in from the future (2021) to say:
      EVERYTHING STILL SUCKS! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

    • @tributejsmm4835
      @tributejsmm4835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@cookiemuffin3208 it’s gonna get better

  • @tanmoypait462
    @tanmoypait462 4 ปีที่แล้ว +292

    Watching this while sitting at home due to corona lockdown, puts a chill down my spine

    • @Grandude77
      @Grandude77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I wasn't particularly worried 10 mins ago. I shouldn't have watched this. 3 videos to go...

    • @graylindblad1261
      @graylindblad1261 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Right?

    • @Qsalis
      @Qsalis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      "It's gonna end soon" "It's gonna end soon" "It's gonna end soon"

    • @brentbowers4535
      @brentbowers4535 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

    • @amw6394
      @amw6394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mother nature likes to remind us how vicious she is, humanity seems to forget she can be deadly

  • @bottomtext5872
    @bottomtext5872 6 ปีที่แล้ว +836

    Nobody ever expects the Spanish Influenza.

    • @osonhouston
      @osonhouston 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Captain Clemont it's main weapons are fever, vomiting, diarrhea etc etc etc

    • @tommykarrick9130
      @tommykarrick9130 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Captain Clemont VOMITING
      DIARRHEA
      UH- Hrmm-
      Wait wait wait let me try this again,

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Captain Clemont What kind of profile picture is that?

    • @tommykarrick9130
      @tommykarrick9130 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Htoo Doh a good one.

    • @mileskay7566
      @mileskay7566 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cool copy pasta.

  • @frankdantuono2594
    @frankdantuono2594 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    OMG guys thank you soooooooo much for covering this topic. In one year this flu killed three times as many people then all the deaths in the four years of the great war. I've studied the spanish flu pandemic but getting this level of detail is both fascinating and excruciating at the same time!

    • @meatvortexgaming7134
      @meatvortexgaming7134 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Frank Dantuono yeah one person can barely find enough facts to subdue their need for knowledge
      But a whole team! That just rips through all the fake and true sources
      Unless their some anti-vaccer or flat earth believer

  • @emokiller13x
    @emokiller13x 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    The parallels of the 1918 and the current pandemic are chilling. Seems politicians never learned from history

    • @whhyyyyyyyyyy
      @whhyyyyyyyyyy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are perfectly capabel of picking up a textbook but the reason they do the same is becuase they are not motivated to save the most lives because they are politicians and that has not changed

    • @Brandonhayhew
      @Brandonhayhew 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s kinda similar, even despite a century ago

  • @MRxCOMICxCON
    @MRxCOMICxCON 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Man, I know COVID doesn't have nearly as much death as 1918 flu, but its really hard not to see some similarities. Like the government trying to downplay its existence until its far too late. The repetition of history and how we never learn from our mistakes.

    • @aminadoce
      @aminadoce ปีที่แล้ว

      If COVID had to battle against the 1918 medical technology, I really guess that it could be FAR worse than the flu. We took a year and half to localise a virus with tons of advances of the modernity, they could never stand any chance

  • @ellsworth1956
    @ellsworth1956 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    One of the reasons some have given as to why the young were more effected than older is there was another flu pandemic in 1889-90. It is thought that this lessened the effects of the Spanish flu in the older population even thou it was a different type of flu.

  • @eluminium4900
    @eluminium4900 6 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    "Coughing violently" Welp
    "Screaming due to fever" wELP

  • @walpol3
    @walpol3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1547

    Yo bismarck you got a plan to mass produce coffins?

    • @duchessnoor
      @duchessnoor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      Oh shut up Walpole! We all know you started this!

    • @herbertvonbismarck8303
      @herbertvonbismarck8303 6 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      Yeah also just burn the damn bodies and create a monument

    • @herbertvonbismarck8303
      @herbertvonbismarck8303 6 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Guthrum just burn the bodies it will probably solve the problems

    • @herbertvonbismarck8303
      @herbertvonbismarck8303 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      It was Walpole plus do you mean both of us or just one of us

    • @walpol3
      @walpol3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      How would you know, ÆTHELSTAN

  • @LightAnkou
    @LightAnkou 6 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    *Vomits blood*
    *Takes a bit of mercury*
    "I will be fine"

    • @someone-er1on
      @someone-er1on 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      1 hour later: *is dead*

    • @justsomerobloxvids1791
      @justsomerobloxvids1791 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *SHITTING UNCONTROLLABLY*

    • @andyjay729
      @andyjay729 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      To quote Archduke Franz Ferdinand, "It's nothing, it's nothing."

  • @wanderjungle4903
    @wanderjungle4903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Has there been a movie made about this yet? This is so thrilling to hear. Your delivery is impressive.

  • @CaptBarbosa77
    @CaptBarbosa77 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Every bad decision in this video drove me mad and every time things got worse I thought it couldn’t get any worse. Only to then be proven wrong over and over again.

    • @bellringer53
      @bellringer53 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sadly, that's most of history. I dare anybody to show me one tragedy that wasn't caused by a person's pride blinding them from the warnings.

    • @uj256
      @uj256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Applies to how coronavirus was handled.

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just like now

  • @EdenElectorate
    @EdenElectorate 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The man who shot himself was quite sad. Shows you how sometimes everyone is human, sometimes they will say stupid things that they regret.

  • @olivermisbach2454
    @olivermisbach2454 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    A guy must be REALLY stubborn if you have to say, "We have run out of coffins," to get him to care.

    • @YogiNoGi
      @YogiNoGi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oliver Misbach Wuhan Feb 2020

  • @deathdoor
    @deathdoor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The way he narrates, "this is war", "he refuses", and so on makes this even most unbelievable and infuriating.

    • @drizzt102
      @drizzt102 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They were at war. And it was the war to 'end all wars'. It was just insane. So while it dont excuse this insanity, the context does at mininum offer some explanation. They couldnt know this flu, this monstrosity would kill so many so easily. Like a farmer harvesting wheat.

    • @spindash64
      @spindash64 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      welp, at least the next war, we managed to beat the epidemic high score, if we assume low estimate, right?
      wait, why is that not reassuring?

  • @garlicgirl3149
    @garlicgirl3149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Amazing how history repeats itself because we do the same thing the Generals, politicians and economists did in their day...self interests. Several years ago I went on a hike. We went past a small graveyard. We stopped and the leader asked why did these few people of various ages die. Oh we named everything. He answered Spanish Flu. We all were quiet for a couple minutes.

  • @mikevictorcharlie
    @mikevictorcharlie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    This videos are so informational, good job extra history!

    • @finnishguy4002
      @finnishguy4002 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ironvc grae Yeah theyre amazing!

  • @Mr.Korzack
    @Mr.Korzack 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Definitely getting used to Matt's style in this now, & gotta be honest, that ending kinda made me gut shiver. Good work, folks

  • @VanOri
    @VanOri 6 ปีที่แล้ว +728

    Let's ignore the experts. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

    • @exodmaster2702
      @exodmaster2702 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      VanOri kinda reminds me of some very unimportant topic: Climatechange

    • @TheStephaneAdam
      @TheStephaneAdam 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The more things change...

    • @TornadoADV
      @TornadoADV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not like there was the largest war known to mankind that was deciding the very fate of the civilized world going on. No sir, the governments just decided that they were going to ignore their own people for the laughs.

    • @VanOri
      @VanOri 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Given how they completely ignore everything and making the situation worse and worse, yes they were going to ignore their own people for the laughs.

    • @voughklry8362
      @voughklry8362 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Anti vaxxer: I know right

  • @mathv3761
    @mathv3761 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This channel makes me happy.

  • @cannellaorso4171
    @cannellaorso4171 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Wow, history really does repeat itself. It comforts me to know that the leaders and officials denied the disease and handled it so poorly, and still everything turned out so fine, that most people today haven't even heard of the Spanish flu.
    Upon finishing the video: I understand now that it was so horrible people chose to forget the flu.

  • @nowfelsajidkhan5165
    @nowfelsajidkhan5165 6 ปีที่แล้ว +350

    Ok, I know this is a little late/early but I like what I'm looking at. Being a guy who has caught several diseases (And Dengue TWICE) watching this series, is like watching a horror movie. The ending music didn't help either, I feel like Freddy Krueger is gonna sneak up to me only to give me a kiss and tuck me into bed, only for me to wake up in a BODY BAG after years of sleep paralysis!!
    I want to go home and drink my Orange Juice now.

    • @drioustb9182
      @drioustb9182 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wait, how did you get dengue twice?

    • @goldendreams3437
      @goldendreams3437 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Seven diseases!😲 Dude 😰

    • @isaacsoong1621
      @isaacsoong1621 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Drious TB There's different strains of Dengue. He could have gotten two different strains of it

    • @AusSkiller
      @AusSkiller 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't watch a TV show called Regenesis then, the whole show is about combating bio-terrorism and essentially shows how fucked we'd all be. It even has a story arc about weaponizing the 1918 Spanish flu (as if it wasn't bad enough already). It was actually a quite good show but holy shit is it scary how unprepared the world is for some of the issues it raises.

    • @goed1adit
      @goed1adit 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Drious TB there are 4 strain of them, contracting one did not give you resistance to other strain.

  • @migrocha
    @migrocha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +334

    I'm lost. Is this about 1918 or 2020?

  • @thetruephoenixful
    @thetruephoenixful 6 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Gee its almost like people should listen to medical doctors when it comes to things like disease. Now this may be a radically new idea but maybe, just maybe, we should listen to experts in their fields that they've studied for years?

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      thetruephoenixful 2018 and we're still not close to learning this lesson

    • @elizabethchoe86
      @elizabethchoe86 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      thetruephoenixful you sound like my mafs teacher

    • @johnmonk9167
      @johnmonk9167 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Oh boy, do i have some depressing news

    • @dicomohio4743
      @dicomohio4743 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@johnmonk9167 Never thought I'd be a part of the 1918 Pandemic reboot.

    • @annferguson3113
      @annferguson3113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dicomohio4743 Ditto

  • @Subject295
    @Subject295 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:05 "Avery is a peculiar man". LOL! I love that bit. The tone of voice describing him, and the caricature of Avery with a blank face is just priceless!

  • @garrettangelici1622
    @garrettangelici1622 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I’ve never had this much fun learning history

  • @enigma2541
    @enigma2541 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Extra credits is seriously one of the best informational channels on TH-cam. I like it just as much as I enjoyed crash course world history.

  • @finnishguy4002
    @finnishguy4002 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    These videos have very good quality.All of your videos are good,which is rare with most of youtubers.I hope the best for you all.

  • @NelsonStJames
    @NelsonStJames 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This series in particular has really impressed upon me the number of unsung heroes whom we never hear about in schools, and that most people will never know about unless they are entering into some specialized field of study, or simply stumble across it.

  • @lamebubblesflysohigh
    @lamebubblesflysohigh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That commandant at least had guts for taking responsibility for his decisions

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 6 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    Why don't people ever learn? When a hard choice is needed, crisis is ignored over political expedience. Every time.
    It would be one thing if people learned, but they never do.

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Because none of those politicians even pay attention to history.
      Or those that do rather sacrifice millions of lives for their own personal gain.

    • @erictaylor5462
      @erictaylor5462 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      When will they ever learn?

    • @AngelDame17
      @AngelDame17 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Because it's easier to ignore, it's more convenient to deny, and you can't make money when people are too afraid of a flu bug to come out of their homes. Greed and Pride at it's finest.

    • @erictaylor5462
      @erictaylor5462 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's not an excuse.

    • @LucidFL
      @LucidFL 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      This was the first epidemic. They have learned since then...

  • @Kaihatsu
    @Kaihatsu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Wow the USA’s reaction to the current pandemic is literally the same as this one

  • @albrectgarcia2719
    @albrectgarcia2719 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    7:00, that's pretty heavy, unknowingly sending 500 men to their death because of no change

    • @ArkadiBolschek
      @ArkadiBolschek 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Unknowingly"? Well, it wasn't as if he hadn't been warned...

    • @TornadoADV
      @TornadoADV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because to them it just seemed normal, life back then was radically different then it is now. There was no malice in their reactions.

  • @misterthegeoff9767
    @misterthegeoff9767 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Why the hell didn't they teach this stuff at school? They covered WW1 and the inter war period in my history GCSE class without once mentioning anything about the flu.

    • @SlimTony
      @SlimTony 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Geoff Lamb because the people who designed the curriculum have the same mindset as the government officials here?

    • @misterthegeoff9767
      @misterthegeoff9767 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Probably. I think our curriculum was designed more around instilling national pride than history, I know it damn near turned me off history for good and for a long time I was only interested in history from times or places I didn't cover at school. I mean there's so many gaps in the English history curriculum they don't even teach us about Walpole.

    • @talknight2
      @talknight2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Geoff Lamb oh that's pretty standard across the world. Government gains little from teaching people about what other countries have been up to. They get nice loyal citizens if they only teach them how STRONG, UNIFIED AND ENLIGHTENED OUR COUNTRY IS.

    • @TornadoADV
      @TornadoADV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because it's mostly taught in biology or general sciences classes instead of history class?

    • @meatvortexgaming7134
      @meatvortexgaming7134 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Slim Tony nah it’s because the education system is crap

  • @duchessnoor
    @duchessnoor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    The flu spreads faster than the time I took to break into Alfred’s Christmas party!

    • @herbertvonbismarck8303
      @herbertvonbismarck8303 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Guthrum more like faster than ea getting a lot of hate on 2017 Star Wars and the clone wars series coming back

    • @finnishguy4002
      @finnishguy4002 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      newslayer3351 Very mature of you.

    • @lukeakarobertlaux536
      @lukeakarobertlaux536 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Guthrum YO WHAT UP ITS GUTHRUM

    • @duchessnoor
      @duchessnoor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Prussian Eagle and you’re my favourite baka, BAKA.

    • @njord3582
      @njord3582 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Æthelstan this is why we didn’t let you into Valhalla

  • @napolien1310
    @napolien1310 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "WHAT ARE YOU!?"
    for some reason I heard Uncle Iroh when he talked and screamed at Zoku

  • @ts2ep8nl1f
    @ts2ep8nl1f 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Interesting how often officials ignore experts’ advise and it comes back to bite them…

  • @raibarufumetsu9410
    @raibarufumetsu9410 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    John Snow: Umm, this plague is spreading guys
    Military Doctors: YOU KNOW NOTHING JOHN SNOW!

  • @helixvoidecho
    @helixvoidecho 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "WHAT ARE YOU!!!!! WHAT MADE YOU!!!!!"
    - Welch 2018

  • @KendrixTermina
    @KendrixTermina 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    some serious body horror involved here
    Also some seriously interesting characters
    Don't let nobody tell you that real life isn't as good as the stories, the writers have it so damn right

  • @alanl.4252
    @alanl.4252 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man I love the way you present history, you guys tell it as if it was a story book. The emotion you guys add to the narrative is always so compelling, like watching some dramatic play or something. So many people I know often say history is boring to them, no doubt because teachers are bad at their jobs, I wish those same people could see your content because you make telling history justice.

  • @AngelSamael
    @AngelSamael 6 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    They seriously put a homeopath in charge of the board of health?

    • @Carewolf
      @Carewolf 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Are there any non-homeopaths left these days?

    • @Lightscribe225
      @Lightscribe225 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Christian Science, a cult of several hundred thousand strong that believe prayer and faith make good alternatives to medicine. If something like this exists, you can bet the wrong people will be put in charge.

    • @seangoldman6833
      @seangoldman6833 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Inholfe is a climate change denier and was the leader of the Senate Environment Committee. His replacement is only slightly better, claiming that climate changes all the time and that the human role is unknown. People put in charge of organizations that hate or otherwise oppose the organization they are supposed to lead is par for the course of American politics. Look at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the current acting head is pro business and is doing everything he can to reduce the effectiveness of the agency and refuses to pursue companies for defrauding their customers which is literally the entire point of the organization.

    • @LucioFercho
      @LucioFercho 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      LOL! Have you seen who is in charge of your country? Or of NASA? Education? EPA? XD

    • @silverdeathgamer2907
      @silverdeathgamer2907 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Isn't Ben carson in charge of urban development or something like that?

  • @100lovenana
    @100lovenana 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Why is nobody talking about how morbid is the part about the Commandant? It's a great example about how ignorance and always following what's expected without thinking for yourself will definetly affect lives in many ways, including the worst way

  • @anniewu8280
    @anniewu8280 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's eery how the exact same descriptions of the government in this video could be used today and it would work perfectly.

  • @phuongho3074
    @phuongho3074 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This is why people should listen to doctors

  • @Winner8501
    @Winner8501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Watching this series in March 2020 makes it much more spicy...

  • @CalkinPlanet
    @CalkinPlanet 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Matt, this is some of your best voice work I've ever heard for this channel. I've been highly critical of you from the beginning, but this video is very promising.
    Keep it up man.

  • @adriannaranjo4397
    @adriannaranjo4397 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    It's amazing how stubborn and blind some people can be in the face of a pandemic. I can only hope we learn from our past mistakes

    • @kirgan1000
      @kirgan1000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hindsight is 20 20, how do you see difference on a extra harsh flu and a killer flu....

    • @adriannaranjo4397
      @adriannaranjo4397 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      JR How about the fact that people were turning blue and bleeding from the face in the hundreds while the doctors drop dead? This wasn't ignorance it was incompetence, they were actively covering up the plague

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      JR if one refuses to listen to experts in a field, that's not a lack of foresight.

    • @TornadoADV
      @TornadoADV 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was the largest war in the history of mankind going on that would decide the fate of most of the civilized world. I think people had their plates well full already before the Spanish Flu kicked the door in.

    • @adriannaranjo4397
      @adriannaranjo4397 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      TornadoADV as they said in the video, many of the things they did only would hinder themselves. The camps were completely shut down from how many were sick. Sending hundreds more to their deaths by a draft taking them to the heart of the epidemic was such a stubborn and selfish decision that the general shot himself in shame after the damage was done. There is *no* defending what they had done

  • @benl2140
    @benl2140 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have to say, the end music for this one is great. It has a sense of foreboding, reminding us that the worst has still yet to come. It actually gave me goose bumps.

  • @lazthespaz4
    @lazthespaz4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It's really scary how similar these points are to what's going on now......

  • @conzo4620
    @conzo4620 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That outro music sends shivers down my spine every darn time. Especially combined with this storytelling. Amazing job!

  • @immortal_hybrid2895
    @immortal_hybrid2895 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Park and Williams personalities sound like great main characters for some kinda crimefighting doctors

  • @Alien1375
    @Alien1375 6 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Snap, Crackle, Pop

    • @DeezNuts-cg9gl
      @DeezNuts-cg9gl 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Very good profile picture.

    • @asarcasticdragon4419
      @asarcasticdragon4419 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ...that's insensitive. It was... *shudders* ...bad... very, very bad.

    • @pinkwings8036
      @pinkwings8036 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rice Krisis!

    • @spindash64
      @spindash64 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      why are there so many weapons with the same name? .30 cal, .50 cal, 20mm, flamethrower...

    • @azelfdaboi5265
      @azelfdaboi5265 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't want to eat Rice Krispies anymore

  • @monomanual
    @monomanual 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    07:43
    The level of ineptitude demonstrated by the authorities at the time is so similar to what our authorities in Chile are demonstrating right now, that it becomes horrifying
    It is a sad sad situation ...

  • @influenza3736
    @influenza3736 6 ปีที่แล้ว +757

    They flu to the afterlife! HAHAHAHAHA

    • @finnishguy4002
      @finnishguy4002 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Flu Oh shit

    • @duchessnoor
      @duchessnoor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      All these dark jokes are making me blue like your victims.

    • @JulianDjdj
      @JulianDjdj 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Well, I didn't know the Flu was that bad

    • @walpol3
      @walpol3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      These puns are killing me...

    • @influenza3736
      @influenza3736 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I am awful at jokes

  • @ShankarSivarajan
    @ShankarSivarajan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "America was about to run out of coffins." Wow, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the next episode.

  • @afcreative22
    @afcreative22 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is by far the most chilling story I've ever seen featured on this channel... great job!

  • @QurttoRco
    @QurttoRco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Huh Replace "This is War " with "But economy" and history repeats itself

    • @deanholderde5959
      @deanholderde5959 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Frankly depressing, also utterly true.

  • @pebbles9649
    @pebbles9649 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This series is the only reason why I'm taking this for my GCSE

  • @friedwater6519
    @friedwater6519 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Spanish Flu: *exists*
    Coffin Makers: it's free real estate

  • @riichobamin7612
    @riichobamin7612 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "A homeopath and no Scientific training".
    Pretty accurate description of Homeopath practitioners (I won't even deign to call them doctors).

  • @maximtrenhaile5190
    @maximtrenhaile5190 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Remind me to never eat rice cereal again.

  • @paulallen579
    @paulallen579 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This story is tense! You could easily make a Hollywood movie about it!

    • @sarasamaletdin4574
      @sarasamaletdin4574 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hollywood has ignored so much good stories form the WWI centential. I guess only WWII with clear good and bad guys are what most of audience is interested in watching.

    • @SunnyApples
      @SunnyApples 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would totally watch a movie Hollywood movie about it!

    • @math3000
      @math3000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It even has its own wacky characters.

    • @paulallen579
      @paulallen579 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Math I know!
      And Math ... dat screen name!

  • @levigarrett6884
    @levigarrett6884 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I'm watching this because of the Coronavirus. Every hundred years this happens...

    • @Mari-hb5do
      @Mari-hb5do 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Levi Garrett And sadly we were caught in between this mess again...

  • @renslicevideo
    @renslicevideo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    History repeats itself, I swear

  • @minorex123
    @minorex123 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This is honestly the scariest thing I've ever seen from you guys.

    • @meatvortexgaming7134
      @meatvortexgaming7134 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Minor Rex have you seen there episodes of ww1?

    • @minorex123
      @minorex123 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, this is worse.

    • @drizzt102
      @drizzt102 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Crusty Cheese wwi would be a tragic comedy with how it happened if it wasnt all too real. You cant write a script that convoluted. But this?? This is the fuel of nightmares. You cant fight it. You cant kill it. Hell you cant see it! But it will kill everyone you know.

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Look outside

  • @unkn0wnv1rus3
    @unkn0wnv1rus3 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    God dang it, its 2am in the morning and I am sleepy but I couldn't wait for another BALLER episode. Everything is just perfectly made the animation the narrator and even the grimy end credits song. WOW!

  • @icycoatl3185
    @icycoatl3185 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Park and Williams seem like a hit medical tv show setup.

  • @johnoiko7805
    @johnoiko7805 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That last line packed a hell of a punch

  • @TamTroll
    @TamTroll 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    the only thing that keeps my spirits up when watching this is knowing that we're still here, so we win in the end.

    • @ArkadiBolschek
      @ArkadiBolschek 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you watch the Cuban Missile Crisis series?

    • @TamTroll
      @TamTroll 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, why?

    • @ArkadiBolschek
      @ArkadiBolschek 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Because it was basically the same: "I know it all turned out OK because we're all still here, but OH BOY".

    • @TamTroll
      @TamTroll 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      AHH I SEE :p

    • @ArkadiBolschek
      @ArkadiBolschek 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup :>

  • @alpacamybag9103
    @alpacamybag9103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    So many similarities to the nCov2019 debacle.

  • @cyin974
    @cyin974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    7:52 wait.. why does this sound so familiar?

    • @jish55
      @jish55 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      and this is why I'm pissed so many are wanting to re-open businesses when we're no where close to defeating this current virus. With a few states already re-opening, we're gonna see in a few weeks numbers jump tenfold because they were idiotic enough to do so, and all for something as stupid as a paycheck.

  • @theunknowncommoner6977
    @theunknowncommoner6977 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Extra History series NEEDS to be used in history classes within the public school system when on the same topics. The way you keep up the suspense in every moment of a medical event (which could be considered on the more boring side of history) is enticing at every word!

  • @darter9000
    @darter9000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    The life of a doc in that era... yeesh

  • @MultiSciGeek
    @MultiSciGeek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2 years later this is the most relevant thing ever! I swear the god this looks like something produced 2 months ago...

  • @SimplifiedFinanceSiFi
    @SimplifiedFinanceSiFi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    7:18
    "its just the flu"

  • @woomywobble1053
    @woomywobble1053 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I want a series about Park and Williams. I love medical history.

  • @purityisastateofmind7439
    @purityisastateofmind7439 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One day there will be a Coronavirus ExtraHistory episode
    I hope I live to see it

  • @markkrousos5011
    @markkrousos5011 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As always, great video. The narration is amazing and the script is well writen. I can't wait for the next one!

  • @Umbral-Hero
    @Umbral-Hero 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Man I'd love to watch a docudrama on this epidemic starring these four doctors. Someone call Netflix!

    • @RistoPalmeri
      @RistoPalmeri 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why watch it on Netflix when you can experience a global pandemic for free

  • @AndrewJohnson-oy8oj
    @AndrewJohnson-oy8oj 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Every modern catastrophe begins with a scientist being ignored.

  • @RiverTheFluid
    @RiverTheFluid 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Jeez the more i see the whole denial thing in the citizens part just makes me mad like, DUDE STOP DO YOU NOT SEE THE PROBLEMS HERE.

    • @ukeyaoitrash2618
      @ukeyaoitrash2618 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How are you enjoying the remastered edition?

  • @russellstauffer2994
    @russellstauffer2994 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well done! This is quite a dramatic story, a scientific mystery tale with twists and turns. I'm glad you mentioned Camp Grant, since I live a mile from the site of that former Army camp.