[daniel1212]

Story is necessarily excerpted and is behind a paywall (I opted for a 1.00 subscription good to two months). Note that it spread quickly in condensed communities, while some rural areas were spared.

And this account is not provided to promote hysteria, but perspective. Over 80,000 Americans Died of Flu in 2018... 90 percent of those deaths were in people over age 65 (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/health/flu-deaths-vaccine.html) A four-week stretch saw the flu kill older Americans at a rate of 169 people a day, or seven people per hour. (https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2018/older-flu-deaths-rising.html)

About 90 people die each day in the US from crashes (https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.html)

[A_Former_Democrat]

Wikipedia has a good article on the Spanish Flu, but it claims the flu started in SW Kansas (a big avian flyway + pig farming area) and was spread by infected young men heading to military camps during WWI

From thence, around the world

Interesting read

[bitt]

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[SkyDancer]

In 1918 at the height of the Spanish flu, Philly decided to NOT cancel a parade, but St. Louis did cancel their parade. In the end, over 12,000 died in Philadelphia and 700 died in St. Louis. So, stop complaining about cancellations

[Boomer]

What is old is new again.

[Vision]

The damage done by the Spanish Flu was magnified by poor nutrition of people at the time.

[Calvin Locke]

Ironically, Camp Devens (becoming Ft. Devens along the way) is now FMC Devens (Federal Medical Center) for specialized/long-term care for [Federal] BOP inmates.