I was reading some old newspapers from
1919..old Sydney newspapers concerning the
Spanish Flu epidemic at that time which infected possibly 500 million people and killed (estimated) between 17 to 50 million worldwide.
In Australia it killed approx 40,000.
What interested me was the various government edicts in Australia (copied from the USA) which mandated MASKS, SOCIAL DISTANCING and the closure of all public entertainment, the Opera, pubs , restaurants etc.
Not sure how long that lasted but basically the entire (local) population complied.
It took 2 years to eradicate the Spanish Flu (or it died a natural death) and...
everything gradually returned back to normal.
No freedoms were curtained.
# Of course
Bill Gates wasn't alive then. Or was he
?