These days we have broadband internet. We have smartphones. We have all sorts of artifices to make both work and entertainment from home viable. Social Isolation is easy. How was it back in the Spanish Flu?

by VinesNFluff

They obviously didn't have all the tools we have, so how did people do their jobs? Was there social isolation? Do we have any sources on how the pandemic affected the mental state of people? What they did to keep from snapping in a time of crisis? How they acquired supplies, since getting everything on delivery was out of the question?

@Edit: Added more questions.

@Edit of the edit: Mod asked me to remove some of them because they are worth their own thread.

Iphikrates

Edit: Added more questions.

Some of these are very big questions in their own right. Especially when you move from "coping with the pandemic" to "after-effects of the pandemic", we'd prefer if you posted them in a separate thread. Thanks!