correct. My great grandmother got up on a Monday, sent the kids off to school and was dead by 2pm, sitting up in a chair.
How tragic! How awful for your grandparent to come home and find her dead like that.
For those of us who work in fields related to public health, a pandemic is a very scary possibility. The government spends a lot of time and money researching ways to prevent one. The 1918 influenza spread around the world very quickly, in a world in which most travel was by ships and trains. Think how quickly a pandemic could spread in today's world, where anyone can go anywhere in a few hours.