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Friday, December 25, 2020 1:00 am
Editorial
Lessons of hope abound in look back at 1918 flu pandemic
We ve spent an unusual amount of time this year looking back more than a century, to 1918 and the nation s last deadly pandemic. There are lessons to be gleaned from what happened, but also reassurance: We ve been here before; we will withstand this trial.
A Christmas without all the traditions and without friends and family is not what anyone wants, but we re not the first generation to experience it. Historian Michael Bresalier, writing in the Guardian, noted the holiday in 1918 was the first in four years without a backdrop of war. Instead, the world was in the midst of the worst pandemic since the Black Death.