Diary from a girl in 1918, Seattle Flu Lockdown

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Read this interesting article today:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...lu/4964025002/

An excerpt: As the coronavirus epidemic threatens Seattle, warnings to remain inside are starting to echo the city's 1918 crisis, when the Spanish flu forced many into lockdown.

My great-aunt Violet Harris was 15 when it hit. Partly out of boredom, she began keeping a diary. Her family and friends eventually emerged unscathed, if a little stir-crazy, from the tedium of having schools closed, mandates that masks be worn outside at all times and restrictions on group events.

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I found it interesting that in 1918 the city of Seattle was put on lockdown with everything closed. 100 years ago almost to the year. And because of the 3-week lockdown, their death rate was far lower than other places in the world.