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During the Spanish flu pandemic, entire cities and towns would get sick and everything would stop. There were also shelter in place orders given during this tim
by hilbertseries 7y ago
During the Spanish flu pandemic, entire cities and towns would get sick and everything would stop. There were also shelter in place orders given during this time. 1918 wasn’t the dark ages, we had telephones and radios. People knew what was happening.
- credit_guy 7y ago> and radios According to wikipedia first news on radio came in 1920. "The first radio news program was broadcast August 31, 1920 by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio#20th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio#20th_century
- dboreham 7y agoDowntown Abbey didn't get either a radio nor telephone until after the war. They had telegram.