For those that may have been around – apparently 1 million perished in some type variation of the flu (how and who counted it).

https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/why-life-went-on-as-normal-during-the-killer-pandemic-of-1969/

Does anybody remember this? During Vietnam when that held the headlines. This was the H3N2 Pandemic. This article says that it was deadlier than COVID-19.