Annie's National History Day NHD Project : The Tragedy of the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic

In hindsight, we had NO idea how relevant this NHD project was going to be. Why? Because less than a year later, in the winter of 2020, the entire globe would be suffering from another pandemic:  Covid-19 or the Coronavirus. Even after a vaccine became available to the public (April 2021), the virus was still raging all over the world and new variants were appearing. The effects wouldn't be fully over until FAR into 2022.

And the aftermath, or what we call "carnage" :

This is what I wrote in my plague journal about Annie's project:

Here I would like to mention how much my daughter has an insight into this virus because of her national history day project last year. Her national history day project was on the 1918 Spanish flu, which is very similar to COVID-19. One of the features was on "cytokine storms" which can wreak havoc on healthy lungs. Her project was called "The Tragedy of the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic: From Sickness to Science." I am not sure how much you will be able to see from the photos, but the effects of the sickness were strikingly similar to COVID-19. The irony? This was EXACTLY one year ago Annie did this project!