Actually many municipalities did lock down in response to the Spanish Flu epidemic here in the US. The epidemiological studies of these cities are in part why we chose to lock down this time too.

Yes, but they locked down for much shorter than we did. San Francisco had restrictions in 1918 for just over 1 month, for example. Nowhere you’d have found things like 5 months+ lockdowns like we have now in many places, with no end in sight.

Because everyone actually stayed inside, unlike this time around. Lockdowns don't work if people ignore them.

It was a ghost town around here.

And now, a few months later, we're seeing the affects of the lockdown. Businesses are closing everywhere.

It's incredibly sad.

The vulnerable should have stayed isolated - cleansed everything from the outside. That ensures their safety. The healthy should have been able to go forward.

Responsibility without control is cruel. Financial debt accumulates, but hey, stay inside, don't go to work.

Yup, human nature completely changed over the past 100 years.

Do you have evidence that this is true? It's pretty hard to believe that people were more willing to stay inside in an era when nobody had the Internet or even TV.