The Plague: How Did One Village Survive? | Riddle Of The Plague Survivors | Timeline

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  @mim3097 · 4 years ago

  Imagine your family living in the same village for 400+ years in this day and age. Amazing

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  @sonyabusby6473 · 4 years ago

  My Father was 5 years old and remembered the Spanish flu.  He remembered the dogs in the small community were all howling as they were left alone and not being fed.  He remembered that it was the young strong adults that were being hauled off dead in the wagons.  His father and mother and his younger sister had the flu and survived, he never contracted it.  He Lived to be 100, died just 6 weeks short of a 101 in 2014.

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  @sarij3950 · 5 years ago

  Poor Elizabeth, not only did she lose her husband and 6 of her children, she also had to bury them by herself.

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• BW

  @bwktlcn · 4 years ago (edited)

  My great-grandma lost her first born, a baby boy, to the Spanish flu.  One of the boys in town came home from WWI, and they had a “Dinner on the grounds” after church to celebrate his safe return (seems to have been some kind of a super sized potluck, it was winter so they were all packed into the fellowship building).  He was coughing a lot, but with coal fired trains, it wasn’t unusual to have a cough after several days of sooty air.  Ten days later, he was dead, and every family at the potluck had at least one person that was sick.  Two weeks later, they were out of coffins.  A month later, every family in that small town had lost at least one person.  Children from big farm families found themselves orphaned.  There were people who lost all of their children.  It gutted the town, and it never grew again; young people who survived moved away to get away from the horrible memories of the “dying time.”  And my great-grandma lost her first born son to the Spanish Flu, and her last surviving child to Covid-19.  What a horrible bookend in our family.

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• YA

  @yankeetherebel · 5 years ago

  What I find amazing about the darkest days in history, such as the time of the black plague, is that all of us alive today are the result of history's survivors.

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  @frankcostello9523 · 5 years ago

  The plague historian professor Justin Champion featured in this documentary and many others passed away June 2020 after a long illness. Thank you for all of your wonderful knowledge sir RIP.

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  @maritnordin6017 · 5 years ago

  My great grand mother survived the Spanish flu. Even the doctor was sure she was going to die. She lived to be 89 years old and died in 1971.

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  @HappyCamper-4eva · 4 years ago

  Amazing. We are all survivors of survivors of survivors. That alone should give us inner strength.

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  @jeaniechowdury576 · 5 years ago

  My grandparents survived the spanish flu. <br>They wore home made masks and distanced themselves. <br>They told all of the grankids repeatedly to wash our hands.

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• PR

  @prospero1789 · 5 years ago

  What amazes me is how meticulously people recorded things, even back then. Perhaps everyone should learn the value of keeping records from this.

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• KA

  @kaifisshhh · 5 years ago

  Anyone watching this during the Covid pandemic thinking “WELL AT LEAST IT’S NOT PLAGUE”

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  @karenh2890 · 4 years ago

  My dad&apos;s mom lost a brother and sister in three days&apos; time from the 1918 flu. They were farmers in North Dakota and not exposed to many people. My other grandmother grew up in a big city, and no one in the family became ill.

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