re: #87 The Vicious Babushka

My grandfather died in the 1918 pandemic at the age of 29. My father was born 6 months later.

That was one of the stranger aspects of the 1918 Flu - it disproportionately killed young, healthy people and left older and younger folks alone. Most flu has a ‘M’ shaped age/mortality distribution - youngs and olds most susceptible. This one was an inverted V.