English Assignment part 4

 Read two articles about the changes brought by the Great Influenza of 1918 and the probable changes brought by COVID-19:

1. Joe Pinsker's "How the Pandemic Has Changed Us Already  "
2. David Tarrant's "Lessons from the past: How the deadly second wave of the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’ caught Dallas and the U.S. by surprise "

Contribute a thorough response, supported with embedded quotations, to the discussion board that considers:

What similarities exist between the influenza epidemic of 100 years ago and the COVID-19 pandemic of today?