Whatever it was my grandmother who was in her 20s at the time got very ill with something or other. But I'm not sure that the 1918 flu is what we should be looking at. Let's look back at the Hong Kong Flu from 1968. There are more than a few of us who remember that. Nobody had to stay home or any of this other nonsense. They did finally come out with a vaccine but I think by then it had already run its course.