We ‘re not out of this yet

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Are you fed up with staying inside and hearing about all the good events of the season being postponed? You’d better get used to it, as the end of the pandemic known as Covid-19 is most certainly not there yet. Can we soothe the pain for you? We can only try with continuing to serve you our articles and cars offered for sale here on PreWarCar.com as a little bit of entertainment.

So what do we have here? These two intriguing shots were taken back in April 1919 when another flu epidemic held the world in its grip. This was known as the Spanish Flu and was unusually deadly. It is believed to have infected 500 million people globally at the time, including inhabitants of remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic, eventually resulting in the deaths of an estimated 3 to 5% of the world's population, killing many more people as WW1 had done, which had just come to an end. War troop movements are believed to have helped to spread the pandemic though.

These two photographs were taken in Sydney, Australia. The original caption reads: ‘Nurses leave Blackfriars Depot in Chippendale during the flu epidemic in April of 1919. Those with the disease who were not hospitalised were confined to their homes, and the SOS cards seen on the vehicles were given to the infected to put in windows to signal need for medical aid.’

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Words by Jeroen Booij. Pictures NSW State Archives / Tara Majoor.

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