Do they look like sk days? A family reveals notes by her grandmother during the Spanish flu

The effects of a world war, a deadly disease, and difficult economic conditions. This is a summary of notes written by Lucy Cox in which she describes the days she lived during the period when the Spanish flu swept the world.

The grandchildren of Cox, who died in 1964 at the age of 84, still find hope in the notes of their grandmother who lived in Ohio to overcome the crisis of the Corona virus pandemic that the world is currently living in, according to a report published by NBC News.

Grandma’s diary Lucy describes the events day in and day out, from 1899 until her death, among them how people at that time weathered the Spanish flu pandemic crisis, and how difficult the days were over them.

Her granddaughter Jennifer Weinbrecht, 63, still keeps the notes she inherited from her deceased mother, Joan Cox, saying she is learning a lot about the period in which she describes excerpts of what was life during the spread of the Spanish flu that killed nearly 50 million people worldwide.

One of the things her grandmother wrote was that she was happy to be able to work on the farm without wearing the corset under the dress that women were wearing at that time.

Grandma Cox wrote about cooking and the difficulties people faced in providing food, and how her husband Henry absorbed the saturated water in the corn cob after eating it.

On October 28, 1918, the notes indicated that she had prepared bread and sugar cakes with manga, and then went with her children to the city in the evening after taking medications to prevent them from catching the flu infection.

Some of the procedures followed in the Corona pandemic are similar to the Spanish influenza crisis, as schools and churches were closed, and people at that time relied on farming to provide food.

The notes refer to one of the days of November of 1918 where the weather had witnessed very cold winds, while Mary, 14, died after she succumbed to the flu, indicating that the disease did not differentiate between the old or the young.

In the month that followed, more names were recorded due to influenza. The notes explained how life at the time was rocking between funerals and a few weddings, while everyone lived in a state of panic because of a world war.

Although the notes reveal a difficult situation that people lived in during this period, it was not without the people ’attempt to continue to live in a normal way, as marriage ceremonies that were an outlet of joy for them continued in crises.

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