If you read the entirety of my posting yesterday, this is a repeat ( with minor augmentations ) of a historical tale of relevance that appeared towards the end.  Why am I doing this?  The subject matter is so important that I want you to share it with your family and friends.  What astounded me is that I've written about each of the following pandemics and never realized how they were connected and how quickly even I forgot.  I'll begin with an important transition period for me, the 1957-58 period when I left Hawaii to fly away to college. I've long forgotten this, but there was the  H2N2 Asian Avian Flu Pandemic in 1957-58 .   You absolutely won't believe the following : Up to 4 million were killed, and was a health threat to those UNDER 50 .  Our present pandemic is especially deadly for the elderly.  How can two viral infections be so different? There was no economic upheaval, no one in the U.S. wore masks.  Few even knew there was a pandemic.  I certainly was not a