What year was it that the plain old flu killed 130,000 Americans in six months? Surely some

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https://weather.com/health/cold-flu/news/2020-01-31-5-worst-flu-outbreaks-in-recent-history

What the article states about 2009 Pandemic is very true. Worked in an elementary school then. All the kids and young staffers were out sick. We older staff started calling the school Seagate Senior Center!

Classroom 30 something Teacher I worked with had her flu shot, even wore a MASK into class, and was disinfecting everything in the room. She still caught the flu. I was a 60 year old Para with a degree and was told to teach her class. Think they paid me a Teacher's wages doing this???? That is subject for a different thread.

Edit: This was in a wealthy area Florida Public School. They did not shut down the school, or any others, with all that flu. I think Charlie Crist (D) was Governor then. Maybe it's not who the Governor is, but what the mindset of the people is.