To: docbnj
I read a couple of books about it this summer. It sounds like it was an amazingly awful experience. What I find interesting is the lack of contemporaneous writings about it. It was as if it was too horrible an experience on which to reflect.
13 posted on
12/29/2008 4:52:26 PM PST by
stayathomemom
(Cat herder and empty nester)
To: stayathomemom
People who caught the less dangerous flu in the spring of 1918 did not catch the deadly flu in the fall of 1918
38 posted on
12/29/2008 6:11:05 PM PST by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: stayathomemom
What I find interesting is the lack of contemporaneous writings about it. It was as if it was too horrible an experience on which to reflect.There was government censorship as well as self-censorship to avoid panic.
To: stayathomemom
What I find interesting is the lack of contemporaneous writings about it. It was as if it was too horrible an experience on which to reflect.There was government censorship as well as self-censorship to avoid panic.
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