[quote=Coronita]
It’s just the tip of the iceberg that’s starting now. All indications is we really wont start coming back, until maybe May, and that would be a slow recovery and also assumes that even if we can get past this first virus way there won’t be a second wave (similiar to the Spanish Flu). [/quote]

A good article on the 1918 flu as it affected San Diego:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2020-03-15/1918-pandemic-san-diego-coronavirus

0.5% of San Diegans died.

First case, Sept 26, 1918 in Balboa Park.

San Diego restricted gatherings.

Seemed to be slowing by late October 1918: 535 cases, 20 deaths

Public gathering restrictions lifted mid Nov 1918.

Another wave hit in 1919, but not a severe as 1918 (at least in San Diego).

I don’t have the date my relative died in Tulsa, but I have a document he signed in late Sept 1918 so I know it was after that.