Flu Stuff

Some author/ historian (John Berry - the Great Influenza) on NPR today (May 5th) talking about the 1918 flu claims that the government tried to hide the epidemic to keep up moral for the war effort - that once people were lied to they had no trust, to the point where fear kept neighbors from bringing each other food in cities and rural areas and some died from starving to death. It is these messages of history that can teach us more in a moment that without record we could perhaps ever understand in a lifetime. Let us study history to learn why we value truth!