When it comes to pandemics, we humans should be able to say been there, done that, but our collective consciousness can be foggy. Adopting new habits of social distancing, mask wearing, and heightened hygiene might feel new to us, but these are things that our grandparents and great-grandparents also had to do when diseases spread.

The posters here are mostly from a pandemic handbook published when the Spanish flu was raging. I will translate the advice later.