Around a century ago, the Spanish Flu killed 700,000 people in this country. In terms of casualty count, that pandemic was deadlier than both World Wars, plus the wars in Vietnam and Korea, combined. The average life expectancy in this country dropped by 12 years virtually overnight. Many of the dead were young people.
And yet, as the pandemic subsided, according to historians who have extensively documented this whole episode, life returned to normal in just a couple of years. Society didn’t reorder itself. There were no permanent changes to election law. Mail-in balloting didn’t become the norm. Clusters of effete Leftists in San Francisco and Portland didn’t insist on wearing masks for years afterwards. Things progressed. People moved on.
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