What book on the pandemic are you reading? I listened to an excellent one about a year ago, and was blown away by how utterly unprepared we are for a repeat performance.
We think intensive care and modern medicine will always be there when we need it. But the system won’t (can’t) handle many millions of people needing intensive care.
My dad was about 7 at the time, and he told me about watching his father and uncles carry seven bodies out of the neighbors’ home. The whole family had died.
They lived just a few miles from Ft. Riley, where it appears the epidemic first hit large numbers of people.
‘The Great Influenza’ by John Barry is what we’re reading for book club this month.
Too bad you can’t remember the name of the book—one of my favorite areas of history is the country’s founding. I have an eclectic taste in eras of history—I read just about anything I can get my hands on about the Tudor period as well ;)