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Reporter's notebook: How my dad, 106, survived the 'other' pandemic - the Spanish flu

Edward was 5 years old. According to him, he probably contracted the “dreaded disease” from his “playmates.” Unlike the current COVID-19, the Spanish flu hit younger people harder than the elderly.

“Those who drank whiskey escaped the flu,” Dad recalls his mother Mamie suggesting, “those who did not, succumbed.”   

In fact, Dad’s mother and father were fine. Ed, the only child at the time, got the attention.............

https://www.foxnews.com/us/greg-palkot-pandemic-coronavirus-spanish-flu
Romans 12:16-21

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly, do not claim to be wiser than you are.  Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.  If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all…do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.