My father, Ed Palkot, has a unique perspective on the current coronavirus pandemic. He survived the Spanish flu of 1918.
He's sheltering in place now in his suburban New York home. And he's 106. He survived the last major global pandemic.That one infected 500 million people around the world and killed some 50 million, 675,000 in the U.S.
“Those who drank whiskey escaped the flu,” Dad recalls his mother Mamie suggesting, “those who did not, succumbed.” Pittsburgh's mayor reluctantly followed guidance from Pennsylvania authorities to close public spaces, so the virus came with a vengeance. The city scrambled to set up makeshift hospitals. People crowded in, struggled to breathe, their lungs filling with liquid. There were no respirators then.
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