I am having a look at the Hong Kong flu

Don't remember the Hong Kong (HK) flu pandemic? It happened in 1968 and 1969. Worldwide, over a million people died from HK flu. Nearly 675,000 people died in the United States. But life went on and no one suggested killing the economy with a total shutdown of society. There was no social distancing, in fact Woodstock was held while the virus was still active. Instead of quarantining the healthy, they quarantined the sick and those at high risk. That generation approached viruses with calm, rationality and intelligence. Disease mitigation was left to medical professionals, individuals and families, rather than politics, politicians and government. The President and Vice President both fell ill from the HK flu and recovered. Imagine the uproar if Trump or Pence got CV-19. We'd never hear the end of how stupid they would be portrayed if that happened. As bad as the HK flu pandemic was, you won't easily find it in the history books. Life went on. The media in those days were not the handmaiden of government, and the governments of the world were not making a power grab.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/why-li...demic-of-1969/

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I am having a look at the Hong Kong flu