Gunnison, Colorado: The Town That Dodged the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

What happened next is instructive amid a new global health emergency a century later as the world struggles react to the emergence of a new coronavirus. Gunnison declared a quarantine against all the world . It erected barricades, sequestered visitors, arrested violators, closed schools and churches and banned parties and street gatherings, a de facto lockdown that lasted four months.

It worked. Gunnison emerged from the pandemic s first two waves by far the deadliest – without a single case. It was one of a handful of so-called escape communities that researchers have analysed for insights into containing the apparently uncontainable.

via getpocket.com