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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!
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)
+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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
**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.
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.
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?
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.
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....
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!
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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Extra Credits hey, thank you for doing what you do
Extra Credits talk about the 1897 ottoman greek war and tell the truth about the ottoman victory of they were always victorious.
Talk about Sultan Mehmed Al Fatih (the conqueror) and Sultan Abdulhamid II.
Could you make a series about Voltaire?
Extra Credits k
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!
Timothy McLean Park&Williams even sounds catchy
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)
Make it a one-shot TV series on PBS or History Channel
+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!
Now I am thinking about this story being adapted by Christopher Nolan.
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.
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.
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.
He must have suffered so horribly...
Truly heroic. I wish others understood this as COVID continues to ravage the world.
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.
Only Welch, master of doctoring, could stop the plague. But when America needed him most, he vanished.
100 years passed
I'm rewatching that now :)
Is Avatar reference?
Rayhan Asyari I’ll give ya three guesses.
😂😂😂
100 years later... here we are.
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.
@@sdgdhpmbp and here we are, with Italy running out of coffins
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...
This still sounds too similar.
@@sdgdhpmbp You spelled Nancy Pelosi wrong.
This episode summed up:
Doctors: "This is bad, we need to do something!"
Everybody else: "Nah"
Welcome to Humanity, it's what we do.
One year later... yeah, apparently that's just how we do in the face of disease. Who knew.
@@katm2140 scary stuff, during this coronavirus outbreak, watching this video scares me
Everybody else (2 days later): **dies**
Media: "this coronavirus is just a normal flu, don't panic, or the stocks will drop too fast, so die silently"
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.
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.
It's shocking how many problems, both modern and historical, are treated that way.
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.
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.
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.
**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.
It's amazing how public officials were so utterly engrossed in the war effort, they ignored a crisis which could severely undermine it.
and end up being more deadly, especially for the US, then the war.
Our government responding to things before it's a crisis is the exception, not the rule...
We really need to work on that.
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.
Agreed. They'll avoid spending more money until the last moment.
@@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.
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?
Theres a game its called Vampyr
Corona Virus: hold my beer
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.
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.
Yeah he was a hero, but he didn't die there. He survived and recovered.
@@multiio1424 Better
t\The best part is that he didn't die.
I've got to say, Dan's chipmunk voice was pretty cool but Matt's voice is FANTASTIC for super-serious tones.
DragoniteSpam i miss danimation
Wait, is Dan no longer working with them? Or are they just diversifying their narrators?
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....
I have seen such a suspenseful battle since John Snow went against cholera.
You know nothing, As Always
The ending of this is what I feared would happen to John Snow. Also John Snow series was the best.
You know nothing, As Always.
Cholera is coming
You know you're in trouble when you literally run out of coffins.
And when your top doctor falls ill.
A good notion that only America was running out of coffins at the time...
You know you're in trouble when history starts repeating itself
Well now we know that
The coffin industry was a booming!
Melkor 237 all that coughing sure helped the coffin industry
But everyone else was dead.
How can u have a coffin industry when most of the population is dead
now that you mention it, that's probably a better way of dealing with an epidemic
Can't have a booming industry if you suddenly run out of material.
Checking in from the future (2020) to say: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
AHHHHHHHH EVERUTHING SUCKS
Right? This feels so freakishly familiar.
ayyy 2021 update, here in the US our politicians are fuckinh stupid and it's getting worse for us
Checking in from the future (2021) to say:
EVERYTHING STILL SUCKS! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
@@cookiemuffin3208 it’s gonna get better
Watching this while sitting at home due to corona lockdown, puts a chill down my spine
I wasn't particularly worried 10 mins ago. I shouldn't have watched this. 3 videos to go...
Right?
"It's gonna end soon" "It's gonna end soon" "It's gonna end soon"
Same
Mother nature likes to remind us how vicious she is, humanity seems to forget she can be deadly
Nobody ever expects the Spanish Influenza.
Captain Clemont it's main weapons are fever, vomiting, diarrhea etc etc etc
Captain Clemont VOMITING
DIARRHEA
UH- Hrmm-
Wait wait wait let me try this again,
Captain Clemont What kind of profile picture is that?
Htoo Doh a good one.
Cool copy pasta.
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!
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
The parallels of the 1918 and the current pandemic are chilling. Seems politicians never learned from history
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
It’s kinda similar, even despite a century ago
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.
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
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.
"Coughing violently" Welp
"Screaming due to fever" wELP
Yo bismarck you got a plan to mass produce coffins?
Oh shut up Walpole! We all know you started this!
Yeah also just burn the damn bodies and create a monument
Guthrum just burn the bodies it will probably solve the problems
It was Walpole plus do you mean both of us or just one of us
How would you know, ÆTHELSTAN
*Vomits blood*
*Takes a bit of mercury*
"I will be fine"
1 hour later: *is dead*
*SHITTING UNCONTROLLABLY*
To quote Archduke Franz Ferdinand, "It's nothing, it's nothing."
Has there been a movie made about this yet? This is so thrilling to hear. Your delivery is impressive.
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.
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.
Applies to how coronavirus was handled.
Just like now
The man who shot himself was quite sad. Shows you how sometimes everyone is human, sometimes they will say stupid things that they regret.
A guy must be REALLY stubborn if you have to say, "We have run out of coffins," to get him to care.
Oliver Misbach Wuhan Feb 2020
The way he narrates, "this is war", "he refuses", and so on makes this even most unbelievable and infuriating.
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.
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?
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.
This videos are so informational, good job extra history!
Ironvc grae Yeah theyre amazing!
Definitely getting used to Matt's style in this now, & gotta be honest, that ending kinda made me gut shiver. Good work, folks
Let's ignore the experts. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
VanOri kinda reminds me of some very unimportant topic: Climatechange
The more things change...
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.
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.
Anti vaxxer: I know right
This channel makes me happy.
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.
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.
Wait, how did you get dengue twice?
Seven diseases!😲 Dude 😰
+Drious TB There's different strains of Dengue. He could have gotten two different strains of it
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.
Drious TB there are 4 strain of them, contracting one did not give you resistance to other strain.
I'm lost. Is this about 1918 or 2020?
@@Emigdiosback r/whooosh
Yes
1918
I know this is a joke, but the corona virus is not even close to the infection rates of the Spanish flu.
@@mr.numbers5968 Time will tell
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?
thetruephoenixful 2018 and we're still not close to learning this lesson
thetruephoenixful you sound like my mafs teacher
Oh boy, do i have some depressing news
@@johnmonk9167 Never thought I'd be a part of the 1918 Pandemic reboot.
@@dicomohio4743 Ditto
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!
I’ve never had this much fun learning history
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.
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.
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.
That commandant at least had guts for taking responsibility for his decisions
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.
Because none of those politicians even pay attention to history.
Or those that do rather sacrifice millions of lives for their own personal gain.
When will they ever learn?
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.
It's not an excuse.
This was the first epidemic. They have learned since then...
Wow the USA’s reaction to the current pandemic is literally the same as this one
7:00, that's pretty heavy, unknowingly sending 500 men to their death because of no change
"Unknowingly"? Well, it wasn't as if he hadn't been warned...
Because to them it just seemed normal, life back then was radically different then it is now. There was no malice in their reactions.
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.
Geoff Lamb because the people who designed the curriculum have the same mindset as the government officials here?
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.
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.
Because it's mostly taught in biology or general sciences classes instead of history class?
Slim Tony nah it’s because the education system is crap
The flu spreads faster than the time I took to break into Alfred’s Christmas party!
Guthrum more like faster than ea getting a lot of hate on 2017 Star Wars and the clone wars series coming back
newslayer3351 Very mature of you.
Guthrum YO WHAT UP ITS GUTHRUM
Prussian Eagle and you’re my favourite baka, BAKA.
Æthelstan this is why we didn’t let you into Valhalla
"WHAT ARE YOU!?"
for some reason I heard Uncle Iroh when he talked and screamed at Zoku
Interesting how often officials ignore experts’ advise and it comes back to bite them…
John Snow: Umm, this plague is spreading guys
Military Doctors: YOU KNOW NOTHING JOHN SNOW!
"WHAT ARE YOU!!!!! WHAT MADE YOU!!!!!"
- Welch 2018
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
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.
They seriously put a homeopath in charge of the board of health?
Are there any non-homeopaths left these days?
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.
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.
LOL! Have you seen who is in charge of your country? Or of NASA? Education? EPA? XD
Isn't Ben carson in charge of urban development or something like that?
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
It's eery how the exact same descriptions of the government in this video could be used today and it would work perfectly.
This is why people should listen to doctors
Watching this series in March 2020 makes it much more spicy...
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.
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
hindsight is 20 20, how do you see difference on a extra harsh flu and a killer flu....
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
JR if one refuses to listen to experts in a field, that's not a lack of foresight.
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.
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
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.
It's really scary how similar these points are to what's going on now......
That outro music sends shivers down my spine every darn time. Especially combined with this storytelling. Amazing job!
Park and Williams personalities sound like great main characters for some kinda crimefighting doctors
Snap, Crackle, Pop
Very good profile picture.
...that's insensitive. It was... *shudders* ...bad... very, very bad.
Rice Krisis!
why are there so many weapons with the same name? .30 cal, .50 cal, 20mm, flamethrower...
I don't want to eat Rice Krispies anymore
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 ...
They flu to the afterlife! HAHAHAHAHA
Flu Oh shit
All these dark jokes are making me blue like your victims.
Well, I didn't know the Flu was that bad
These puns are killing me...
I am awful at jokes
"America was about to run out of coffins." Wow, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the next episode.
This is by far the most chilling story I've ever seen featured on this channel... great job!
Huh Replace "This is War " with "But economy" and history repeats itself
Frankly depressing, also utterly true.
This series is the only reason why I'm taking this for my GCSE
Spanish Flu: *exists*
Coffin Makers: it's free real estate
Coffin Makers:die of Spanish Flu
Coffin Makers: *STONKS*
Flu victims: NOT STONKS
1 year later: Coffin dance memes
"A homeopath and no Scientific training".
Pretty accurate description of Homeopath practitioners (I won't even deign to call them doctors).
Remind me to never eat rice cereal again.
Beanpie McBean Same
Snap! Crackle! Pop! Plague Victims!
This story is tense! You could easily make a Hollywood movie about it!
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.
I would totally watch a movie Hollywood movie about it!
It even has its own wacky characters.
Math I know!
And Math ... dat screen name!
I'm watching this because of the Coronavirus. Every hundred years this happens...
Levi Garrett And sadly we were caught in between this mess again...
History repeats itself, I swear
This is honestly the scariest thing I've ever seen from you guys.
Minor Rex have you seen there episodes of ww1?
Yeah, this is worse.
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.
Look outside
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!
Park and Williams seem like a hit medical tv show setup.
That last line packed a hell of a punch
the only thing that keeps my spirits up when watching this is knowing that we're still here, so we win in the end.
Did you watch the Cuban Missile Crisis series?
Yeah, why?
Because it was basically the same: "I know it all turned out OK because we're all still here, but OH BOY".
AHH I SEE :p
Yup :>
So many similarities to the nCov2019 debacle.
7:52 wait.. why does this sound so familiar?
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.
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!
The life of a doc in that era... yeesh
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2 years later this is the most relevant thing ever! I swear the god this looks like something produced 2 months ago...
7:18
"its just the flu"
It's very unsettling
I want a series about Park and Williams. I love medical history.
One day there will be a Coronavirus ExtraHistory episode
I hope I live to see it
As always, great video. The narration is amazing and the script is well writen. I can't wait for the next one!
Man I'd love to watch a docudrama on this epidemic starring these four doctors. Someone call Netflix!
Why watch it on Netflix when you can experience a global pandemic for free
Every modern catastrophe begins with a scientist being ignored.
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.
How are you enjoying the remastered edition?
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.