This is an interesting read also-quoting Jeff Tucker.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/why-life-went-on-as-normal-during-the-killer-pandemic-of-1969/
Yet here we are today, with another 2 doctors ( Fauci and Birx) who aren’t virologists or infectious disease specialists( they are internists) promoting masks, social distancing and the shutdown of the economy.
I can say with some confidence, we will never again see such a shutdown if another pandemic appears. The cure was far worse than the disease.