Amen.

[madamesilverspurs]

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[Talitha]

2. Agreed, but....

It makes me wonder if the post-1918 pandemic survivors felt the same way. Sure, we'll have to lay low for a while but eventually, I trust things will get better.

[Ms. Toad]

3. I wish my mother and I had thought to have conversations about the 1918 pandemic

with her mother.

For some reason it never occurred to either of us.

[murielm99]

4. It seems like a lot of people from those times

put it out of their minds. I don't find that many of the great literature writers of that time wrote much about it, either.

This time, it is different. Much has already been written and recorded.

[Ms. Toad]

7. According to my mother - my grandmother (who never wanted to talk about hard times)

actually mentioned the 1918 pandemic to her more than once - but for some reason my mother didn't follow up.

[Talitha]

6. A maternal 'Great Aunt' of mine survived the 1918 pandemic.

She was a Teenager.

All she ever said about it was:
"I was so sick. So pain-wracked. I prayed that God would just take me."

Thank God she survived.

She was the mother of the Priest that married me.

She was the mother of my Godfather.

[Ms. Toad]

8. My grandmother didn't get the flu.

Ever - even after the pandemic. My mother doesn't remember ever having influenza, but recently found some records from her mother that indicates she had it once, as a child. She's certainly never had it in her adult life (she's now 88).

[orangecrush]

5. Truth