My parents were born in 1915. They were obviously just barely old enough to remember those times, and I never really spoke with them about it much. I’ve read a lot of material on it within the past decade or so. As I’ve posted here before it’s morbidly fascinating because it was like a real life zombie apocalypse. Literally calling to “bring out your dead” like in the Middle Ages.
It’s amazing how few know of it today. I think there was so much misery between WWI and the pandemic it became something of a taboo subject during the heady days of the Roaring Twenties.
The medical community is definitely studying it because it was so devastating. When I was a young teen we had a neighbor who was in his 90s and a World War 1 veteran. He went to Canada and joined the British Army in 1916 and was home by 1917 due to injuries. When he spoke the one time about the flu, he mentioned stacks of Coffins on street corners for weeks on end in Brooklyn New York. I do remember he had the thousand yard stare when speaking of the flu. It really was something he did not want to talk about.