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My Dad was a 21 year old private in the Army before the Spanish flu hit. He was serious injured in a training accident and had his upper back broken.

He ended up in the big Army hospital in Kansas. It turned out to be the one that was a major breeding ground for the Spanish Flu.

His older brother and his wife drove up to visit my Dad. Then they went home. A couple of days later, his brother got sick from the flu and died in about one day. He had never been sick in his life.

My Dad survived the flu and was later discharged. He felt that the nurses/medics saved his life by putting his bed and him outside in the sun. Most of those, who stayed inside the big hospital tents, died from the flu.

As I have posted before: Daily, get out in the sun and walk if you can for 30 minutes a day. That is Nature’s way of increasing your vitamin D levels and Dopamine levels.

The higher Dopamine levels will help you to feel better.

https://medium.com/@ra.hobday/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-lesson-from-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-509151dc8065 Coronavirus and the Sun:

A lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic . Put simply, medics found that severely ill flu patients nursed outdoors recovered better than those treated indoors. A combination of fresh air and sunlight seems to have prevented deaths among patients; and infections among medical staff.

`Open-Air’ Treatment in 1918 During the great pandemic, two of the worst places to be were military barracks and troop-ships. Overcrowding and bad ventilation put soldiers and sailors at high risk of catching influenza and the other infections that often followed it.[2,3] As with the current Covid-19 outbreak, most of the victims of so-called `Spanish flu’ did not die from influenza: they died of pneumonia and other complications.