Hockey during the 1919 influenza epidemic
https://www(dot)sportsnet(dot)ca/hockey/nhl/1919-stanley-cup-spanish-flu-pandemic/
based on what you have read write an essay reflecting upon this recent article by Gare Joyce. How does the story that Joyce recounts about hockey during 1919 influenza epidemic make you reflect upon the current circumstances? what is the role of physical activity and leisure in times like these, especially with physical distancing guidelines in effect in some locales and full lockdowns in others? what does the history of physical activity and leisure suggest about the role that these practices can play when physical distancing restrictions are lifted?
In your answer try to think critically about the gender, social class, and ethnic character of the history of canadian physical activity and leisure. How do Indigenous perspectives also influence your reflection?
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1 How does the story that Joyce recounts about hockey during the 1919 influenza epidemic make you reflect upon the current circumstances?
History is repeating itself. After a hundred years, a pandemic like the Spanish Influenza in 1919, has suddenly sprung. Like the Spanish flu, people nowadays were not alarmed at first because of a few mortalities and morbidities and decided to neglect the numbers. However, when famous celebrities have incurred the disease, people began to recognize the pandemic and to read about it. The 1919 Stanley cup proved that history is repeating itself when the game could not pursue since a renowned player has incurred the disease.
2 What is the role of physical activity and leisure in times like these, especially with physical distancing guidelines in effect in some locales and full lockdowns in others? What do the history of physical activity and leisure suggest about the role that these practices can play when physical distancing restrictions are lifted?
Pandemics bring people to the worst of their imagination, and these have significant adverse effects and exhaustion to the life of everyone, not ...
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