Corona Hit By Virus
[EDIT 5/1/2020: THIS APRIL FOOL’S DAY POST IS A JOKE]
One hundred years ago today … In an unbelievable coincidence with 2020 events, the Queens neighborhood of Corona was plagued by a contagious virus, called “the Corona Virus.”
The Evening Daytime. 1 April, 1920. Nopapers.com
The April 1 article from the The Evening Daytime mentions the “shelter-in-place” strategy, and the possibility of school closings. Below, a 1927 photo of Public School 18, at the corner of 104th St. and Corona Avenue, taken by street photographer Percy Loomis Sperr—the subject of a fine article in The Outline.
Photo by Percy The New York Public Library. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy.
The coincidences continue, as the article describes stores with shortages of “toilet paper, Mexican beer, macha latte mix, La Croix seltzer, fresh whole-grain rice sushi, and Quaker brand all-purpose gruel.”