How did we used to deal with Pandemics?

[jasjas1973]

As well as the the one in 1918 that killed 50m to 100m people worldwide, we also had one in 1957 that killed 3m, 10,000 in the UK, 110k in the USA, another one in 1968 that killed 1m and again about 10k in UK.
We used to have around 65k extra deaths in the UK each and every winter, last year it was 23k additional deaths.

What did we do? i certainly don't remember any sort of lockdown at all in the late 60s and my mum, a nurse, never mentioned anything, just always warned me to stay in when i was ill and wash my hands!!!

Was the large scales deaths of the elderly/vulnerable just accepted?

Reading about the bubonic plague, it was particularly bad. The symptoms, the fact that it came on fleas, on rats on a ship. To Italy. When you start to consider all the elements of a pandemic - R0, age, symptoms, death rate, it’s a bit eep.