"Avoid crowds, coughs and cowards, but fear neither germs nor Germans!"
That's the sort of helpful social distancing advice you'd find between the pages of the Austin American-Statesman circa 1918, when the Spanish flu pandemic's chilling effect on city life briefly rivaled the closing days of World War I for prominence in local news. Social gatherings of any kind were banned by . . .
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