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Getting Ready for school

Updated Mar 10, 2025
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Getting Ready for school
A circa 1918 photo of two boys getting ready to go to school - this is how they dressed to protect themselves from the "Spanish Flu".
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It's said that "Ring around the Rosie" is from the Black Plague (not true, it originated centuries later) but there was a school rhyme from the 1918 pandemic: "I had a little bird, it's name was Enza . . . I opened up the window and in flew Enza."
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04/08/2020
You were right David E. Krieg
Photo of David E. Krieg David E. Krieg
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04/08/2020
I'm always right. You'll get used to it.
😁🤣😁
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04/08/2020
..smallpox wasn't it..?
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04/08/2020
Why do you sound so sure of that "NOT TRUE" statement concerning Ring around the Rosie. No one knows for sure, but there are lots of speculations on the subject. Let's hear yours!
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04/08/2020
Guns are the black plague. True or false? Only reply if your response is TRUE😎
Photo of Kathy Kittelson Kathy Kittelson
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04/08/2020
Corona virus ryhme?
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04/08/2020
I thought ring around the Rosie had to do with measles.
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04/08/2020
Or small pox.
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04/10/2020
I heard it was the Black Plague in Europe I think in the 1700'S.
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04/10/2020
Ring around the rosey: the red splotches caused by the fever,

pocket full of posies: it was thought that carrying flowers and holding them up to your nose would ward away the sickness. In Victorian times they were called nosegays or tussie mussies, and were more used for dating but did double function by keeping putrid smells from entering their nose.

Ashews ashews ( or achoos achoos ) the coughing and sneezing.
We all fall down: dying.
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04/11/2020
You’re right! Let’s not doing anything until it be ones statistically significant to you!
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