To: nickcarraway
Stop by an old cemetery sometime. With Halloween next week, get in the spirit and walk around the graveyard. Notice the huge amount of deaths circa 1918, mostly young people, men, women, teenagers. That flu epidemic really left a mark, more so than China Virus. And the 1918 flu really clobbered the 20 somethings.
4 posted on
10/24/2023 8:29:41 PM PDT by
Governor Dinwiddie
(Lord, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
A distant cousin died in 1918. She was weakened from on-going tuberculosis, caught the flu and died. She was only 16. Her death certificate was amended from tuberculosis to influenza.
I’ve been getting the flu vaccine for probably 20 years. Sometimes I get a sore arm at the injection site for a day or so. I’ve never had anything worse than the sore arm. This time absolutely nothing at all.
I got the flu shot last week.
24 posted on
10/24/2023 9:50:48 PM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
The flu continued to claim lives in early 1920 but for some reason the totals given for the number of flu victims seem to ignore the 1920 victims. I had a second cousin (now deceased—he was born in 1900) who told me how his two sisters died of the flu a few days apart, in early 1920.
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