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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
The 1918 Spanish Flu story...
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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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The 1918 Spanish Flu story... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Mar 2020
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. K&R
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Submariner
(12,504 posts)2. My paternal grandfather died in the 1918 flu epidemic
My grandmother said he was a lean healthy robust 32 year old. They emigrated together from Italy 8 years earlier. He was a longshoreman working in the Boston Port, and she said he got what seemed like mild cough one day, but was dead 3 days later.
It's in my DNA, so I didn't need much convincing to get my annual flu shot by Labor Day each year.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JenniferJuniper
(4,512 posts)4. My 41 year old greatgrandfather
signed his "old man draft" card in Boston on 9/12/1918. Men where brought into churches, schools, and courthouses on that day to register. He worked on the railroad.
Three weeks later he died in an army cot in a church that was serving as makeshift urgent care.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)3. There was a saying about it: "Opened the door and in flew enza".
My grandfather died of it at age 36.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden