Responses to the 1918 Epidemic—Some Things Don’t Change
When the Spanish Flu swept the nation in 1918, people responded much as they are responding to today’s pandemic. Here is a fun look at some of the things that appeared in Colorado newspapers of the time. The federal government issued a health bulletin to be printed in most newspapers. It
included this picture. Doesn’t this just look like something the government would publish? For a time, public meetings were banned, and businesses and schools were closed, usually on a local