Woman who lived through Spanish flu dies of COVID at 105

[RandySF]

A centenarian who survived the pandemic that was the 1918 Spanish influenza has died after contracting coronavirus.

Primetta Giacopini “was a fighter,” her daughter, 61-year-old Dorene Giacopini told The Associated Press Thursday of her mother’s incredible life, which ended on Sept. 16. She was 105.

Surviving the Spanish flu was just one aspect of Giacopini’s eventful century on Earth.

“I think my mother would have been around quite a bit longer” had she not gotten sick with COVID, said Dorene. “She had a hard life and her attitude always was ... basically, all Americans who were not around for World War II were basically spoiled brats.



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-spanish-flu-survivor-dies-covid-20210930-22mtc3hnbzbwdb6ouuhkzyxneu-story.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. A lot of people don't how good we have it today...

as opposed to what our great grandparents and grandparents lived through. At best we have a new set of problems that maybe as bad, but I don't really buy that.

[RandySF]

2. My grandmother also survived the Spanish Flu.

[soldierant]

3. I was born a few days before Hiroshima - is that good enough

to qualify as not necessarily a spoiled brat?

I certainly try not to be, and have been told I was raised right many times, so I hope I qualify.