Comments | tabaqui: So! Here's the thing....

tabaqui

So! Here's the thing....

Jan 25, 2020 11:48

I've been watching a show about pandemics (called, appropriately, 'Pandemic', on Netflix), which of course covers the 1918 Influenza pandemic. The pandemic that Steve was basically born into.

So, of course, me bring me, I had to research and read up about it, and I found that...( children who had been exposed to the 'Spanish flu' in utero had a bevy of life-long physical health issues, from lung to heart to vision..... Sound familiar? Oh yes. )

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sparrow2000 January 25 2020, 20:03:13 UTC

Although I don't really know the fandom, that was a gorgeous, evocative almost drabble full of luscious imagery. Lovely stuff.

I wasn't going to do Snowflake this year, because of the repetition thing. I did in the end, but I'm not sure I've got anything particularly new to say.

tabaqui January 25 2020, 21:04:24 UTC

Thank you, bb. :D

Yeah, same. I just...didn't have anything new to say, and some of the challenges I never really had *anything* to say, so....

Maybe next year i'll do something else, or maybe I'll find some other challenge this year, who knows.
I'll try to post more, though I just feel so...wordless, a lot of the time.

trepkos January 26 2020, 10:12:34 UTC

Wow - that's interesting about the Spanish flu. I wonder why it targeted those groups. DO you think the writers would have done the research you did, when forming Steve's character?

tabaqui January 26 2020, 15:46:57 UTC

Isn't it? Apparently - "...cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system)" was the main reason for that. The storm would just overwhelm the immune system in the person's body and cause death. Many people also got bacterial pneumonia from being ill, and that killed them.

So having a weaker or imuno-compromised body kind of saved you.

There is another theory that people born in time to be 'of age' during 1918/19 had already lived as a child/infant during an earlier, weaker flu epidemic, and that basically stopped them being able to develop antibodies.

It's all just incredibly absorbing. And no, frankly, the Marvel writers wouldn't have bothered, but I'm surprised that some fanfic writers haven't - we have plenty of history buffs and research nerds!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu https://www.

full_metal_ox May 16 2020, 19:43:28 UTC

The creators of Captain America were born in 1913 and 1917, meaning that their early childhoods would’ve been shaped by the Spanish flu.

tabaqui May 17 2020, 02:13:04 UTC

Oh, neat! I hadn't really thought about that.... :D

ariss_tenoh January 31 2020, 19:31:26 UTC

Very haunting and horrifying^^

Especially in light of current events.

tabaqui January 31 2020, 23:29:59 UTC

Yes indeed.

prophetic! anonymous April 19 2020, 10:24:06 UTC

Wow,that is

oops anonymous April 19 2020, 10:27:26 UTC

that is very wierd. Randomstasis here, cant log in,but wanted to wish you a belated happy Birthday. Great to see new fic too! Hope it was a great day! stay safe and well

Re: oops tabaqui April 19 2020, 14:56:48 UTC

Aw, thank you so very much! :D
I did have a good day, barring all the allergy-related sneezing and sniffling.

*shakes LJ*
LET THEM IN!!