I have written about our experience locally with the Spanish Flu and the Great Depression to illustrate how resilient our ancestors were, managing to not only survive but prosper with far fewer resources at their disposal and with a determination that we have inherited. As we experience the COVID-19 pandemic, causing shutdowns, economic strife and general widespread fear, I…
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The Spanish Flu Vs. Covid
This weekend on Newmarket Today, we look at a topic that is very much in the news world-wide, that of pandemics and the Canadian connection. They say that learning from the lessons of the past is essential to our species’ survival and the case of the Spanish Influenza 1918-1920 is certainly such an event. The…
