However, by the end of June, with ‘sporadic’ outbreaks being reported throughout the capital, the Daily Mail changed tack, advising readers who suspected they had influenza to ‘go to bed immediately and not attempt to “carry on”, which only means carrying infection to others’.Footnote 74 The following day, with the news that ‘300 girls’ at a leather factory in Bermondsey were ill, Newsholme gave the paper the first in a series of on-the-record briefings, informing its medical correspondent that, while the current epidemic is not ‘so severe as the great epidemic of 1889–92’, outbreaks were being reported from various parts of Britain, as well as from France, Germany and Spain. The public health politics of influenza in France, 1918–19, Influenza and Public Health: Learning from Past Pandemics, Fighting Flu: Military Pathology, Vaccines, and the Conflicted Identity of the 1918–19 Pandemic in Britain, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1835–1935. Headlined ‘Is Influenza Coming’?, and bearing the byline of the paper’s medical correspondent, the article begins by reminding readers that most attacks of influenza are no worse than a cold and that patients should not have ‘any great dread of [the disease]’. Dixey, Epidemic Influenza: A Study in Comparative Statistics (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1892); ‘The Plague of 1892’, Illustrated London Police News, 30 January 1892, 1.Google Scholar, 45. The Tamil Nadu government shut the borders with Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh states, which have reported a growing number of coronavirus cases. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Medical discourses that sought to employ dread as a self-regulating technology were similarly oppositional.Footnote 16 To the extent that doctors were keen to persuade patients to take the ‘dangers’ of influenza seriously and adjust their behaviour accordingly by, for instance, convalescing at home when sick, the risk of spreading infection and the dread of the respiratory complications of flu was a key instrument of biopower. Addressing the issue of ‘confusion’ as to the case fatality rate, The Lancet reported there had been fifty cases of influenza and four deaths, with other deaths from pneumonia being due to the crewmens’ ‘exposure during rescue’. Hospitalization data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 14-day change trends use 7-day averages. 1910 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1916).Google Scholar, 39. The result was that, as dread increasingly became attached to influenza, it destabilised medical attempts to regulate the civilian response to the pandemic, undermining Owen’s and the Northcliffe press’s emotives of stoicism. The death toll in Turkey due to the coronavirus rose to nine, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. In Russia, scientists have begun testing prototypes of potential vaccines against the new coronavirus on animals. Change +6.00. (note 43), 237.Google Scholar, 62. Health Minister Obadiah Moyo said on state television ZTV. This was especially the case during the final year of the conflict when war-weariness set in, leading to the stricter policing of negative emotions. A 58-year-old man has died in Malaysia from COVID-19, bringing the country’s total number of deaths from coronavirus infection to three. The hospital overflowed on Friday, then the Gymnasium was filled, and now all the place seems carpeted with huddled blanketed forms…. At the same time, she began collecting suppressed pacifist pamphlets and keeping press cuttings and a diary, recording the government’s propaganda efforts and her impressions of the darkening civilian mood. For further discussion see P.N. Daily Mail, 28 October 1918, 2.Google Scholar, 102. The public health politics of influenza in France, 1918–19’, in Giles-Vernick, Tamara J.L. and The thing is much too common for me to take part in. At the same time, the Daily Mail employed triple-tiered headlines and crossheads to emphasise alarming statistics and to draw readers’ attention to particular phrases and tragic incidents. The patient was a cancer survivor and had suffered from hypertension and diabetes. War Room Pandemic LIVE. Bannon's War Room . Hale, Matthew “(The request to use the army) has been accepted … and 114 soldiers will be on the ground throughout Lombardy … it is still too little, but it is positive,” Attilio Fontana told a news conference. These propaganda uses of metaphor are illustrated by the wartime advertisements for Bovril and patent medicines. Bennett, Kate The plan is expected to look much like restrictions already announced on all-but-essential travel and trade between the US and Canada. In late June and July there was another subtle shift in the language used to describe the epidemic. Scientists in the Vector State Virology and Biotechnology Centre in the city of Novosibirsk have developed vaccine prototypes based on six different technological platforms and began tests on Monday to try to work out how effective they are and in what doses they could be administered, the regulator said. 1638), 160.Google Scholar, 61. The pamphlet also recommended foods and drinks rich in ‘nerve’-building nutrients and the avoidance of ‘depressing’ influences, such as cold weather or ‘overwork’ and ‘overstrain’. The writer goes on to agree with Newsholme that the Spanish epidemic does not appear to be nearly as severe as previous epidemics, before suggesting that ‘malnutrition and the general weakening of nerve-power known as war-weariness’ and the ‘contact between national armies’ are sufficient conditions for its spread.Footnote 78. (note 67), 31–3.Google Scholar, 71. The armed forces will be mobilised to assist civilian authorities, with the authorisation to stop vehicles and people until the police arrive. China’s coronavirus infections from abroad hit a new daily record while infected travellers reached an unprecedented number of Chinese provinces, pressuring authorities to hold the bar high on already tough customs rules and public-health protocols. and However, far from these discourses being seamless and consistent, I will show that they contained discontinuities and sites of divergence. Feature Flags: { The health ministry said all gatherings of 250 people or more must be cancelled. Quite $1/ 3$ of the Batt and about 30 officers are smitten with the Spanish Flu. Hong Kong said it had recorded 48 new cases of coronavirus, a one-day record, as the city hunkers down to deal with a flood of people returning from overseas who are infected. (note 14), 90–1. In so doing, I do not claim to be able to access Owen’s or other people’s past emotional experiences and ‘know’ their subjective content. “These are extraordinary times,” she told reporters, adding Australia’s banking system was among the strongest and the most stable in the world. Scott, the editor of the Manchester Guardian, that if people really knew the truth about the war it would be stopped tomorrow.Footnote 24 Although the actual impact of propaganda is notoriously difficult to measure, Lloyd George’s admission reflected the widely held political belief that the British press had immense power to influence public opinion in 1914–18. Wright, Catherine In Playne’s view, the promulgation of hatred of Germany through emotive language and symbols and the cultivation of stoical attitudes were key factors in this process, both reinforcing civilian resilience in the face of the German threat and helping to stifle domestic dissent. However, according to Rivers the trauma of trench warfare and the nervous shocks from the incessant shelling had been too much for even educated men to bear, hence the traumatic neuroses he encountered at Craiglockhart. Another steep daily rise in cases and fatalities comes as officials order all tourist accommodations to close. In Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, despite calls for social distancing and quarantining, residents of poorer areas of the city continue to go outside, interacting with others and working to support their families. Human innovation. By contrast, in the autumn of 1918 the Daily Mail devoted several leaders to the epidemic. Sammon, Marco This virus could put you in hospital for weeks, or even kill you,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a virtual press conference in Geneva. It will then be possible to bring home the neglect and lack of foresight’.Footnote 104 Although The Times criticised the authorities’ handling of the epidemic, when at the end of the month the Registrar General’s returns showed there had been 4,482 deaths from influenza in England and Wales the previous week and that there was no sign of the death toll declining, the first instinct of its medical correspondent was to seek to reinforce readers’ resolve by equating ‘resistance’ to influenza with ‘resistance’ to Germany. The UK has recorded 3,269 positive cases so far. At the same time, I wish to examine the role of government, voluntarist organisations, and the mass media in the production not only of stoicism during WWI but the regulation of emotions such as dread and hatred. Niall Johnson, Britain and the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic: A Dark Epilogue (London, New York: Routledge, 2006), 37.Google Scholar, 4. Other factors cited by Johnson include the ‘mild’ nature of the initial wave of infections in the summer of 1918 and the fact that, in contrast to Spain where foreign correspondents were free to write about the flu’s depredations, the British phase of the epidemic went largely unreported by domestic newspaper correspondents. Stearns and C.Z. Martin, H. Gutman, and P.H. Until October the Northcliffe press and the leading medical journals had been broadly sympathetic to the LGB. So far, there have been 59 cases of the virus in Sri Lanka. In each case, the advertisement explains, ‘Bovril is the best Home Defence’.Footnote 70 Similarly, in another advertisement, dating from the German air raids on the east coast of England in 1915, a Zeppelin becomes a metaphor for the various germs waiting to attack stressed civilians. Together, we can reduce public health risks and prioritize essential cross-border commerce and trade.”. The venture enjoyed considerable initial success, but in the 1942-43 season (September 1942-March 1943) … The Douglas County Health Department reported 627 new cases of COVID-19 and 7 new deaths on Friday.This brings the total in Douglas County to 29,369 since the pandemic began in March. As Italy’s north struggles to contain the spread of coronavirus, fears are growing in the south for thousands of migrant workers, mostly from Africa, who pick fruit and vegetables for a pittance and live in overcrowded tent camps and shantytowns. Brock, to whom it fell to treat Owen, and imbued the therapeutic regime at Craiglockhart.Footnote 63 As Allan Young has shown, Rivers was convinced that officers were better able to withstand ‘fear and its expression’ because of the way that their minds had been trained to suppress negative emotions through the public school ethos of stoicism and the emphasis on competitive games. Anonymous, Influenza, its Cause, Cure and Prevention, The Penny Medical Library (Manchester: Abel and Heywood, 1902), 226–30.Google Scholar, 44. As Reddy has argued, departing from strong constructionist models, performing anger, fear or shame is not the same as being angry, fearful or ashamed.Footnote 20 This is because emotional utterances, or what he terms ‘emotives’, are never merely descriptive or performative but build, hide and intensify emotions by altering what they refer to. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued instructions at a coronavirus taskforce meeting to compile concrete steps urgently to reopen schools as the new school year in Japan starts in April, Jiji news agency reported. The space constraint announced on Friday follows a ban on Wednesday of non-essential indoor gatherings of more than 100 people, including weddings and restaurants. Stearns, ‘Emotionology: Clarifying the History of Emotions and Emotional Standards’. The former finance minister had been publicly battling health problems in the past year, including a painful skin condition known as bullous pemphigoid, which he revealed last January. Iran is one of the world’s hardest-hit countries by the coronavirus pandemic. Colgate-Palmolive Company (NYSE:CL) today reported results for third quarter 2020. As the mortality from flu worsened, both the Daily Mail and The Times also began reproducing statistics from the Registrar General’s weekly mortality returns – data which made the mounting death toll more visible to readers. Bono, op. As of Thursday night, there were more than 13,000 coronavirus cases reported in the US. People did not seem cheered by the prospect of peace…People full of very sad cases of influenza. These tensions were most apparent in wartime advertisements for products such as Bovril that drew on patriotic tropes and then medical theories of ‘nervous force’ while, at the same time, seeking to exploit consumer fears of exogenous threats to the body. Joanna Bourke, ‘Disciplining the emotions: fear, psychiatry and the second world war’, in Roger Cooter, Mark Harrison and Steve Sturdy (eds). It is estimated that through his ownership of the Daily Mail, The Times, Evening News, and Sunday Evening Dispatch, Northcliffe controlled approximately forty per cent of the then English newspaper market. By the first week in November, it was not unusual for these round-ups to extend the full length of a page and across several columns. Six years later, when war broke out, Playne joined the Emergency Committee for the Relief of Distressed Enemy Aliens (Germans trapped in Britain); E.D. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tries to make sense of the last seven months, in conversation with New York’s David Wallace-Wells. Britain said its scramble to produce thousands of ventilators to fight the coronavirus outbreak was achieving results as top companies have already produced a prototype which should be ready for use in hospitals by the end of next week. (London: Allen and Unwin, 1931); Caroline E. Playne, Britain Holds On, 1917, 1918 (London: Allen and Unwin, 1933).Google Scholar, 38. Craddock, Susan (eds), Influenza and Public Health: Learning from Past Pandemics (London: Earthscan 2010), 69–83.Google Scholar, 49. Some aid organisations had to get emergency sanction exemptions from the UN to clear the way for the shipments and are now navigating North Korea’s border controls imposed in a bid to shut out the virus. Slavin, Philip Saudi Arabia banned prayers at its two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina, while thousands of Indonesians refused to offer prayers at home despite government orders. “This is the most drastic action we can take,” Cuomo said at news briefing. ★My last month paycheck was for 1500 dollars…YDK All i did was simple online work from comfort at home for 3-4 hours/day that I got from this agency I discovered over the internet and they paid me for it 95 bucks every hour. Tunisian President Kais Saied ordered a general lockdown, restricting public movement to counter the spread of the coronavirus. Some of the most alarming reports of all came from Cape Town where on 10 October The Times reported some 14,000 people had been attacked and that the epidemic was ‘assuming the proportions of a national calamity’.Footnote 95 Three days later the paper’s Cape Town correspondent telegraphed that fatalities in the first two weeks of October were running at 5,000.Footnote 96, Realising that censorship was pointless and faced with a medical catastrophe to rival the mortality from the war, the Northcliffe press found itself in a quandry. Here’s a quick recap of the day’s developments. cit. Bannons War Room. cit. It was only later that epidemiological and military bacteriological experts agreed on the essential identity of the three waves and the pandemic came to be seen as a ‘single cataclysmic event’.Footnote 49 Consequently, in the summer of 1918, when Owen wrote to his mother, there was little reason for Britons to fear flu. Todd Bensman gives a War Room Pandemic exclusive on NEW BOOK "America's Covert Border Wall" Bannons War Room. Contact Info: Tufts University Department of Sociology Eaton Hall, Room 116 Medford, MA 02155 Office: 617.627.2466 Fax: 617.627.3097 Email Professor When combining the numbers from previous state media reports, it is presumed that the North has so far released around 8,000 people from quarantine. Thus in an advertisement for the disinfectant Santol that appeared in the Salford Reporter in the early autumn of 1918, readers are warned that ‘the Germs of Influenza and other Diseases Attack at your Unguarded Moments, and only when the Grim Spectre of Illness or the Shadow of the Awful Reaper falls on your home do you realise the Danger’.Footnote 72, A good example of the contradictions in these biopolitical discourses came in an article that appeared on the main comment page of the Daily Mail in the first week of June. cit. The Canadian Energy Centre says more than 1,000 people have sent an automated letter off its website to Netflix Canada to let it know the animated film sounds like propaganda. The curfew will be in effect from Friday  6pm until 6am on Monday. Johnson, op. Analysts say social distancing best way to curb spread of virus as deadly pandemic is expected to worsen in coming days. We have taken exceptional measures to absorb this first wave, but we’ve started a race against the virus,” Macron said at the start of a crisis meeting at the Interior Ministry. Sanders and P.M. Taylor. This was especially the case in late October as the death toll from influenza mounted, prompting panicked scenes outside chemists and doctors’ surgeries. Joanna Bourke argues that the authorities made a similar effort to manage fear responses in World War II, virtually dissolving the distinction between the home and military fronts. 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