I've studied the Spanish Flu pandemic, at least the data that's still available, and it played out nearly the exact same way in many aspects. People were protesting masks despite solid scientific statistics that they help lesson spread of the virus during the first few waves. There were quarantines in 1918 but nothing like the lockdowns of 2020-2021, that was the most troublesome aspect of this current pandemic in my opinion. Those lengthy lockdowns completely wrecked small businesses and individuals financially/psychologically and the more I learn about the vaccines the more I question their safety. My wife's ex-boss nearly died after her first one. I had heart palpitations for six months or so after my first.

What was happening in nursing homes and long term care facilities was even more atrocious. My father died in one in 2020. We discovered the nursing home withheld food, water, and meds for almost three days. When he was taken to the hospital emergency room (after we demanded he be taken) they discovered he was so severely dehydrated that his kidneys were shutting down and he was withdrawing from his prescribed opioid painkillers that he took regularly. We contacted lawyers but none of them would take our case because the Governor of Ohio issued a "blanket immunity" to long term care facilities to protect them against lawsuits. Something very sinister was going on there.