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I found a diary that captured living through the pandemic of 1918, online, in April 2020, while searching for information about some potential ancestors. Carlotta Hays' Diary of the 1918 Flu PandemicCarlotta Hays was 15 years old in 1918. She was a resident of a tiny municipality called Ellerton, just outside of Myersville, Frederick County, Maryland, USA, keeping a diary from May 1918 until December 1918, and then for the whole year of 1919.The entries to her diary are brief and chronicle life during the end of World War I and the pandemic of the Spanish Flu. Most of what she wrote are routine accounts of her days, giving only small nods to the major world stage events swirling around at this time. From her journaling, we notice that she and all her family members are hard workers, and practical. We get a firsthand view of a typical day in the life of a teenager in the early 1900s living in a rural area in the USA. This is super interesting.The diary, however, possibly becomes more interesting to us, with the second wave of the 1918 Flu in the fall months, as Carlotta begins to record how social functions such as schools, theaters, and churches close down for a period, noting that public assemblies are discouraged.(All entries from the diary shared here are in italic, bold print. These were extracted from the public sharing of Judy Zeck, member of the Myersville-Wolfsville Historical Society, and author of the article Carlotta Hays' Diary of the 1918 Flu Pandemic)Here is an entry that begins to heat up the reading with a mention of the flu and school closing:“Wednesday, October 9, 1918. Clear and cool. Mother papered a room [of] Mr. Harshman’s. Harriet fell off a chair and hurt her head. School closed today on account of the Spanish “flu.” “The very next day, Carlotta records that the daughter of a town doctor, Miss Nunia Browning, age 24, has died from the flu. Nunia’s brother was a soldier stationed at Camp Meade. Some have surmised that Miss Browning caught the illness from contact with her brother who had brought it back from Europe as WWI drew to a close, but it is more likely the contagion was passed to her from her doctor father.A couple days later, Carlotta records:“Saturday, October 12, 1918. Cool and sunny. Mother baked a cake. Mr. Guy Summers died this morning from the “flu.” Miss Browning was buried this afternoon at the Lutheran Church in Myersville. Mother cleaned up the basement. Lizzie called during the evening.”The flu starts hitting closer and closer to home. Carlotta’s father, Urner Hays, who worked in Hagerstown, Maryland, during the week, usually returned home Saturday evenings to be with his family for Sunday. Carlotta’s next entry details how her father came home at this time with the flu:“Sunday, October 13, 1918. Fair and warm. It was no church this morning anywhere on account of the flu. I went to Myersville for Herbert’s papers as they did not come Sat. Father came home this afternoon with the influenza. Dr. Browning came up this afternoon and said it was a very bad case.”Carlotta Hays in the family garden on October 14, 1918. In her Diary, Carlotta noted that this was taken shortly before her father arrived home with Spanish Flu.​ ​Photo courtesy Nancy Hendricks. Carlotta Hays' Diary of the 1918 Flu PandemicFor the next 8 days, Carlotta’s entries report on her father’s battle with the virus. At one point, it looks like he might make it through.“Monday, October 14, 1918. Fair and warm and very windy. We washed. Dr. Browning came up this morning and said father was no better. Herbert went to Myersville for iodine for father. Dr. Browning came up again this evening and said father was a little better as his temperature had dropped one degree.”“Tuesday, October 15, 1918. Clear and cool. Dr. Browning came up twice this afternoon and said father was worse. Mother washed and I ironed. Uncle Paul came down and spent the night with us so if we would need help he would be here. The influenza epidemic is raging all over the U.S. In Baltimore there were over 1,000 new cases and hundreds of deaths. In the army camps alone more than ten thousand men have lost their lives from this disease.”“Wednesday, October 16, 1918. Fair and warm. Uncle Paul returned home this morning. Dr. Browning came up twice this afternoon and said father was just the same. We used all of our ice, so we had had to go up to grandmother's after some as we have to keep it on father's head all the time. Uncle Paul came back down this evening. Today was the first father became delirious. The Dr. has given up all hope of father ever getting better.”“Thursday, October 17, 1918. Fair and warm. Grandmother came down to see father. Mr. Angle, a contractor for whom father was employed came down to see father. The Dr. came three times this afternoon. Father is very delirious, as we had to call men from a nearby cornfield to help Uncle Paul keep him upstairs. Mrs. Bertha Delauter died today from the influenza. She was twenty eight years old and has four small children and husband has the flu.”“Friday, October 18, 1918.Fair and cool. The Dr. came twice this afternoon and said father was just the same, very bad.”“Saturday, October 19, 1918. Fair and cool. I cleaned up part of the house and mother washed. The Dr. was up three times this afternoon.”“Sunday, October 20, 1918. Cool and rainy. Uncle Paul went home this morning to change clothes and take a bath. The Dr. came in three times this afternoon and said father was holding his own remarkably well.”“Monday, October 21, 1918. Clear and cool. Mother washed. Harriet was complaining all day but we do not think she has the “flu.” Last night father became worse and during the whole night he was very, very bad. Toward morning, he became conscious, recognizing both mother and Uncle Paul, having been delirious for four days and nights. The Dr. came in twice this afternoon and said father was now much better. We now have hopes that he will get well. Regina Gouker has the flu.”In the end, it was not to be.“Tuesday, October 22, 1918. Fair and cool. Last night, for the first time, father really seemed to suffer. He spent a very bad night the whole way through. This morning, he seems a bit better; he also ate breakfast. As Uncle Paul had business in town he thought it safe to go. He had scarcely gone when father began to fail again. Mother stayed with him the greater part of the time. The Dr. came in during the afternoon and said nothing could be done for him as the end was near at hand. He passed away at five minutes until four o’clock. He was conscious until the very last and mother stayed with him alone, as we children were afraid to go on account of the dangerous disease. Uncle Paul returned in the evening and was more than sorry he went away.”Her next entries showcase the added difficulty of this time in that consolers cannot call out of fear of contracting the illness.“Wednesday, October 23, 1918.Clear and cool. Mother washed again. Uncle Paul went to town. The neighbors do not come any nearer than the road as they are all very much afraid of this disease. Uncle Paul returned from town but went on up to grandma’s and we stayed alone.”“Thursday, October 24, 1918. Cool and rather cloudy. We buried our father today. We children saw him for the last time since he went away to work Oct. 6, 1918. There were no relatives here but Uncle Paul, Aunt Lulu, Grandpa, and Grandma. Rev.[James] Willis [St. Marks Lutheran], [Rev. George] Harp [United Brethren], and Harshman were present. The only other persons were Mr. Bittle and the bearers. Father was very young, only thirty nine years old. Mrs. Mary Gouker has the flu.”Carlotta’s entries mentioning events connected to her father’s passing conclude October 30, 1918. After that, there are sporadic comments about the flu and someone she is acquainted with that died. School reopens on November 11th after being closed for more slightly more than one full month. It just happened to coincide with the ending of World War I.“Monday, November 11, 1918. Clear and cool. School opened this morning. Mother washed. Mr. and Mrs. Umberger called during the afternoon. Mrs. Umberger also brought mother a bouquet of chrysanthemums, which were lovely. Today, the Kaiser [Wilhelm II of Germany] signed the armistice, thus ending the world war. All other countries having given up some time ago.”Carlotta’s story continues after her diary entries draw to a close in December 1919. Judy Zeck writes:In 1920, Carlotta’s mother moved to Braddock Heights (near Frederick, MD) and opened a boarding house. This was a common way for widows to make a living and support their families. In an interview in the Frederick News Post in 1975, Carlotta said that at one point, her mother became so successful that she supervised four boarding houses on Maryland Avenue, as well as all the cooking. On a Sunday afternoon during the heyday of Braddock Heights, it was not unusual for Josephine to oversee the feeding of more than 300 diners, according to Carlotta.Carlotta’s diary gave me much to consider, especially on the topic of pandemic waves. I wondered a few things in April 2020 after discovering her diary.1- Would there be a ‘Second Wave’? As I had never experienced living through a pandemic and neither had anyone else living that I knew, Carlotta’s diary was an eye-opener. Now, it is quite clear that a ‘Second Wave’ is reality as I write in mid-October 2020.2- Would the virus get everywhere, as it did in1918, even into very small enclaves? It seemed more likely that it would with our modern mobility, but I am truly surprised that Covid-19 is just infiltrating our small town of 3,000 inhabitants. Ellerton, MD, is a blip on the map compared to our town here in the Czech Republic and yet, Ellerton was overrun with cases. We had zero cases in the spring and still very few to this date of mid-October 2020. No deaths have been reported.3- Will this virus be as deadly as the 1918 one in the second wave (if there were a second wave)? In 1918, there were few who did not know someone personally who had died, let alone somehow who had contracted the illness. In contrast, it was not until the end of September that someone I knew personally came down with Covid. Their case was milder than other flus previously experienced. I do not know anyone personally who has died. There are two other glaring differences. One is that it seems the spring outbreak of 1918 was a milder, less lethal form of the flu than the second wave of Fall 1918. That does not seem to be the case with this current pandemic. The Spring 2020 outbreak had devastating consequences in Italy and Spain and other parts of Europe, in parts of the US, especially New York city, as well as many other countries in the world. But I cannot comment further on this because we are still early into this second wave. The other difference is that the fall US shutdown did not last long in 1918. The flu came into a community, did its damage, and then exited, with no further public measures implemented. I expected the shutdown of Spring 2020 to be our only one because I expected it to be like what Carlotta described in her diary. How naive. As of October 14, 2020, our country is on lockdown again including schools and restaurants. November 3, 2020 is the tentative date for reopening, but we are at a wait-and-see point currently.TL;DR: It is for the reason that Carlotta’s diary was written during a pandemic and involves a person connected so intimately to the crisis that I find it highly interesting.“Opening” the diary and examining what is there is like taking out the contents of a time capsule. It is a fascinating read, not only because of how much of an overlap there is to our current crisis of Covid-19, but of the writer herself and how simply yet beautifully she expresses the essentials of that time. She grew up to be a rather integral part of her community, having a positive influence on young people for many generations. I love that part.I totally recommend opening this diary. The whole article on the Hays’s diary is definitely worth anyone’s time.

To Miodrag Radovanovic, M Anonymous, and Som Saxena,One of my favorite Quorans wrote a detailed answer that could help all of us improve our writing both here and in real life: Nathan Stanish's answer to What are some actual tips to becoming a good answer writer for Quora?To Som and everyone: Perhaps you are answering questions about niche topics that don’t attract a lot of followers. In addition, as for all of us, look for ways to improve your writing. Comment on and upvote others’ answers to engage yourself more in the community. This also gives you more visibility, and might encourage people to look at your answers and possibly follow you.To M Anonymous: We cannot provide feedback to anonymous questions. However, if you read the rest of this answer, some of it may pertain to your situation.To Miodrag: My favorite people on Quora (and in real life) display a sense of humility and a desire to learn from others. In fact, a former boss does this, and he is the smartest person I know; he is a former commissioner of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and an international energy expert who is asked to speak all over the world and share his knowledge, yet he has a winsomeness about him that attracts others. Your original question asked, “Where are my followers? I am writing really great answers and want to do the greatest things for humanity. What is wrong with you people?”To everyone including all the anonymous OPs:Please read what some other Quorans have written to see examples of excellent answers in wildly different genres. Some of them have increased their follower counts far beyond any numbers I will ever have. They all compose compelling answers, but not all of them are drowning in followers (yet). Their goal is to write well, not to Hoover in followers. A collateral result of writing well is increasing followers.Tips:Write clearly. Remember, your audience includes people from all over the world.Write succinctly. Do not use run-on sentences. Do not pad your paragraphs with repetitive drivel.Answer the question.Be Nice, Be Respectful (BNBR).Add a picture—but only if it improves your answer.Vary the formatting (e.g., bullets, paragraphs, horizontal lines to separate major topics, bolded subtitles)PROOFREAD your answer. Be willing to edit it later if/when you discover mistakes. Use standard English (spelling, punctuation, and grammar: SPaG).My follower stats:0 followers (3 May 2016, when I first joined Quora)1,000 followers (24 March 2018)3,000 followers (17 February 2019)4,000 followers (10 August 2019)5,000 followers (10 January 2019)5,439 followers (today, 29 February 2019)My favorite Quorans:Below are just some of the Quora writers whose answers I read and enjoy; they are accomplished in their worlds, yet they do not lord it over people in their answers. 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(asked 2 July 2018 by M Anonymous)SECOND MERGE: Why am I not getting more views and followers despite writing good answers? (asked 15 September 2017 by Som Saxena)

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