1968 Flu

The 1968 flu pandemic called the Hong Kong flu because it started in Hong Kong killed over one million people world wide and 100,000 in the United States. It effected mostly people over age 65. I was working in Georgia and do not remember any disruptions. The Viet Nam protest were at their high point and ML King and Robert Kennedy were killed and so the news didn't cover the flu like it might. Perhaps if the country had declared war on the virus lives may have been saved.