re: #11 Joe Bacon

Charles, I remember Grandma Bacon telling me about the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918. She was scared to death to leave her boarding house in DC. She was working as a clerk for the Navy Department at the time. Several coworkers started coughing at their desks, within a couple hours they collapsed to the floor and died. Grandma thought that the reason it didn’t hit her was that she built up immunity because she had the flu the previous year and spent a month in the hospital recovering from it.

They had corpses stacked in warehouses that were sealed off from the public for fear of contamination. People wouldn’t go out in the streets without covering their faces with handkerchiefs soaked in camphor or Listerine. And this only added to panic A. Mitchell Palmer was stoking with his Leftist raids.

If a pandemic occurs again, we know how the Republicans will spin it! They’ll just bullshit about it being “Gawd’s Will”.

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