Closed schools. Empty restaurants. Newspaper stories sprinkled with charts of how many are predicted to die. Lots of references to the killer 1918 Spanish Flu. Rumors of border closings. Sound familiar?
This is what happened on the last pandemic I lived through, which makes me sound like a wizened crone (and maybe I am). But I'd rather think of myself as an (unofficial) old hand at the special kind of hysteria and confusion that accompanies pandemics.
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