"We may not live in a safe world, but we do live in one that is alert to the danger of another pandemic."
And I found the following to be somewhat amusing.
Politicians reassure us, but medical personnel are not so positive." "Authorities are starting to think about stockpiling flu medication, and wondering whether we will be ready for the next pandemic. since this book was published in 2007, I found some interesting information in the Historical Note section: I remember drinking Postum and Fry's Cocoa! Also, I enjoyed Fee sharing various books she read, leading me to check some of them out and,ĥ. women volunteers joined the Sisters of Service to assist public health nurses, prepare and deliver meals for the infirm, and make and distribute masks Ĥ. the Flu greatly affected young, healthy people ages 20-50 and, many children were sent out of the larger cities to live with family on farms or in smaller villages some churches had over 15 funerals a day streetcars were adapted to carry multiple corpses as a Canadian, I was surprised to learn that some provinces arrested people for coughing in public and/or spitting in the street! People were also fined $50.00 for not wearing a mask in public! Other interesting bits of information include: how a huge number of people were infected and died within a few days of contracting this virus and,ģ.
how Armistice Day celebrations exacerbated the spread of the Flu through an 8-month period of diary entries, our MC Fiona (Fee) relates how the ending of the Great War and the influx of the Spanish Flu affected her close-knit family and various friends and acquaintances I have designated February 2023 as my "Books for Young and Old Alike" Month!ġ. Since this particular book focuses on the Spanish Flu in Canada from 1918-1919, and how we are still coping with the COVID pandemic 100 years later, it has been high on my WTR list and,Ģ. I have read a handful of other books from this series, all of which I have learned something new about Canada's history.
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