Around the country, students, parents, teachers, and staff of schools are being asked a seemingly impossible question: how many people are we willing to let die so that we can open our school buildings?

In the midst of their own global pandemic, Americans in 1918 faced the same question.

The answers they came up with and the lessons they offer for us today, this week, on Context, Please.

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