It starts when you're always afraid ... Part III

A blast from the past about how one community coped with 800 cases of flu and 80 deaths back in 1918 ...

"Don't lose your head," was the advice physicians gave in a Daily Record story published on Oct 4, 1918. "There is no danger of a widespread epidemic."

Three days later, those words would seem foolish.

Thankfully, this is 2005, when we have modern medicine and a president willing to put troops on the streets to protect us ...