My paternal grandparents BOTH died from the 1918 flu.
I’ve known people that have died from AIDs, it has killed 36 million so far, and kills about 130,000 a month.
It was a killer and wide spread.
No one of my forebears died of it to my knowledge.
Walt Disney almost died of it as a young man.
Thankfully, my grandfather got the 1918 flu and survived and all 4 of his children were born after his recovery.
My husbands Grandmother was immune. She lost her husband and two children. She was an angel that in KY helped others.
MOgirl
I came very close to dying from the 1968-69 “Hong Kong” flu.
I endured some of the most agonizing pain I have ever known, became totally delirious and had all kinds of strange hallucinations with a fever of 105. I never want to go through anything remotely resembling that again.