https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2020/11/21/covid-and-thanksgiving-how-we-celebrated-during-1918-flu-pandemic/6264231002/

On Thanksgiving more than a century ago, many Americans wereliving under quarantines, and officials were warning people to stay home for the holiday.

Grace Hauck, USA TODAYUpdated 7 hours ago

More than 200,000 dead since March. Cities in lockdown. Vaccine trials underway.

And a holiday message, of sorts:”See that Thanksgiving celebrations are restricted as much as possible so as to prevent another flare-up.”

But it isn’t the message of Thanksgiving 2020. It’s the Thanksgiving Daynotice that ran in the Omaha World Heraldon Nov. 28, 1918, when Americans found themselves in a similar predicament to the millions now grappling with how to celebrate the holiday seasonamid the coronavirus pandemic.

“Every time I hear someone say these are unprecedented times, I say no, no they’re not,” saidBrittany Hutchinson, assistant curator at the Chicago History Museum. “They did this in 1918.”

On Thanksgiving more than a century ago, many Americans…