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PANDEMICS: THEN AND NOW

August 13, 2020 @ 7 pm

Remote attendance via Zoom video conference (no meeting at Keller Williams).

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Plagues have infected humans from their beginning. The 1918 influenza outbreak stands out as the largest killer of humans in history, killing 50 million people around the world.

What made this virus so virulent? How did it spread so widely even before the advent of commercial air travel? How do these pandemics originate and why do they eventually disappear?

In this presentation by Murray Perl, we take a close look at the 1918 pandemic and compare it to our current pandemic. What did we learn from that outbreak,and just as important, what did we fail to learn from the 1918 outbreak?



Oh, and one more thing...................

Normally, at every General Meeting we have door prize drawings but due to the recent health crisis,  this month's drawing will not be held. The  computer below will be raffled at the next in-person General Meeting.

The door prize:

HP Pavilion H8-1241

• Intel i5-2500 3.30GHz
• 500GB SATA hard drive
• Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
• 8.0GB DDR3 Memory
• EVGA 9800 GTX+ video
• LibreOffice 6.3
• DVD-RW
• Keyboard and Mouse
  

The door prize is open to members only but non-members can easily join at the front desk to be eligible for the drawing. Only $50 per year per household.

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