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Three Waves, Deadly Force
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| I want you to read the book, find out what happened back then, but what you can do is isolate yourself. | |
| And it was tricky because the first wave, it came in the spring, and then lots of people died, and then it just almost like just poof, it was gone. | |
| And then it hit with a deadly force in the fall. | |
| The most deadliest month was actually October. | |
| And so they thought they were beyond it. | |
| They thought it was dying down, it was gone, and the second hammer blow, and it was there. | |
| And then it actually left again. | |
| And it didn't come back as strong after the new year, because remember, now we're in fall, so it came back again after the new year. | |
| And it didn't come back as strong, but still, a couple million people still died in the third wave as well. | |
| But it came in three waves, almost over a year period. | |
| Wow. | |
| Yeah. | |
| They're talking about the waves. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That's right. | |
| You know, there are doctors' notes from 1917, from the World War, the Great War, as they called it. | |
| And these doctors' notes have been read by epidemiologists, and they seem to indicate that the soldiers in 1917, a year before the official beginning of the outbreak, that they had it in Europe. | |
| So it's possible as the theory that this may have begun in China in as early as 1912 and then carried when Chinese workers were brought over to Canada and Great Britain and to the United States to fill in because our young men had gone overseas to fight, that these Chinese had brought a disease with them that was silent. | |
| Yeah, wow. | |
| Again, the big difference now is that we are living in a world where travel is much easier than it was back 100 years ago. | |
| When you crossed the ocean then, you had to do it on a boat. | |
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Travel Restrictions Impact Economy
00:00:39
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| Now you can do it in 14 hours. | |
| And that is one of the great fears that we had back five years ago when Ebola was spreading across West Africa because there were international airports in West Africa. | |
| Now travel to China is huge. | |
| It's really striking, Zach, Pastor Jim, that the major American airlines have curtailed and in some cases completely shut down travel back and forth between the United States and China. | |
| But that's affecting more than just the people who want to travel. | |
| It's also affecting the economy. | |
| Oil prices are way down right now because demand is down. | |
| Right. | |
| You know, think about all of the jet fuel that's not being used. | |