https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket...hes-safety

ESPN is scrolling her quotes across the bottom line to dispense her message to the nation.

She is communicating via webcam to students, players, prayer groups, and interviews with Rittenberg and the Tribune.

No gallivanting around. Or sunbathing.

And teamwork!! (i.e. actually listening to when Walmart will be closing, and buying your stuff before closing instead of keeping the store open longer than it has to be open.)

My parents and their siblings all survived the so-called Spanish flu. So did my paternal and maternal grandparents and their siblings. For whatever reason, I never heard any of them talk about it. For them, it was apparently a non-occurrence.

(03-28-2020 03:02 AM)colohank Wrote:  My parents and their siblings all survived the so-called Spanish flu. So did my paternal and maternal grandparents and their siblings. For whatever reason, I never heard any of them talk about it. For them, it was apparently a non-occurrence.

Were they even old enough to understand what was happening? To be a teenager during that plague, you'd have to have been born in 1905.

I mean, sure, she was a newborn during the Spanish Flu, but the idea that someone that was alive for the Spanish Flu is not just around, but lucid enough to talk about this with everyone is a little bit remarkable.

As mind-numbing as TV can be, it can expose us to some people with amazing lives and stories, too.

(03-28-2020 03:02 AM)colohank Wrote:  My parents and their siblings all survived the so-called Spanish flu. So did my paternal and maternal grandparents and their siblings. For whatever reason, I never heard any of them talk about it. For them, it was apparently a non-occurrence.

It was considered a normal part of life to have a pandemic from time to time.

This time it was tied in with the debt overleveraged economy where the economic system is cracking over temporary job closures.