It was durring the fall of 1918 when an all around epidemic started. It impacted the economy greatly by mines shutting down to avoid conamination. Also, the telephone services were decreased. Factories and offices didn't work as much. Eventually, since there wasn't anybody making any coffins, there was dead bodies of people unburied for several weeks.
Cleanliness and puarantine were the only offers that the doctors could give for the flu. Eventually, one fifth of the worlds population was effected. During WWI, about 16million have died because of the epidemic and the war. There was more people who died because of the epidemic than because of the war. I guess that the flu could have been the war at the time if you look at it from a different view. More than a quarter of the solders caught the epidemic. Just suddenly, in 1919, the flu dissappeared.
I think that the flu impacted us greatly because people have gotten smarter and can now prevent that same epidemic from happening again in the future.
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