You're going to be here. The holiday season is here and we're celebrating it this year during a pandemic but it's not unprecedented we've

done it before we did it back in 1918 but it doesn't have to be the way that it was

then we really can learn from history instead of repeating it.

On November 28, 1918, and notice ran in newspapers that read, quote,

see that Thanksgiving celebrations are restricted as much as possible so as to prevent another flare up.

Sounds familiar, right?

Unfortunately, people didn't listen then, and they didn't listen this year either.

Instead, millions of people hit the road and packed into airports and most

likely spread the coronavirus from coast to coast. Again. No one wants to be told what to do. I understand that, believe me. But let me instead

tell you about what happened when people didn't listen to health officials warnings back

in 1918. The Spanish influenza pandemic followed World War I

which had been considered the war to end all wars when America joined the fight

in 1917. The first outbreak of what became known as the Spanish flu occurred

in Haskell County, Kansas in January 1918, just nine months after the United

States had declared war on Germany.

It spread to other bases and then across the Atlantic to Europe with the American soldiers

that entered the fight.

Although the first cases of the disease were discovered in the United States and the rest of Europe long

before getting to Spain. The epidemic received its nickname of Spanish flu

because Spain, which was a neutral country in World War I, had no special wartime censorship for news about

the disease and the accompanying death toll.

Since it received reliable press coverage in Spain, people got the false impression that Spain was the most, if not

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