Re: Spanish Flu 1918
I grew up in the heart of Philadelphia among the hardest hit areas in the nation. The adults in my life **never** spoke about it. I learned about it as an adult by reading an article in the Philadelphia Magazine.
**If** the Spanish Flu was such a horror certainly my family would have mentioned at least once in all those years.
People were sturdier in those days. Not everyone cowered at every misfortune.
Sometimes families can only deduce how the Spanish Flu affected their ancestors by noting dates on gravestones.
I cannot say. I wasn’t alive back then.
But an army base near me had 800 young healthy soldiers die in two months back in 1918, and that is just one place. It wasn’t just old people or people considered to be sick to begin with, it was young healthy people too, and the mortality rate was considered to be around 10%.
I am just using it for comparison purposes, and in my opinion, it is a reasonable comparison.