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Title: Reporter's notebook: How my dad, 106, survived the 'other' pandemic - the Spanish flu
Post by: libertybele on March 27, 2020, 07:01:03 pm

The answer is whiskey my friends!!

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 (https://www.foxnews.com/us/greg-palkot-pandemic-coronavirus-spanish-flu)