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Old September 9, 2009, 04:02 PM   #28
johnbt
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"a reenactment of the Spanish flu of 1918"

My grandfather had it. He told me it wasn't all that bad. Back then, pretty much anything would kill a lot of people because there wasn't a treatment for most common illnesses.

Penicillin wasn't even discovered until 1930, much less commonly used.

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