The impact that a pandemic has on individuals psychologically, socially, and financially can be devastating. Understanding past pandemics and their adverse effects on people’s lives, as well as businesses and the economy, can help us learn from these past events. Businesses and people can survive the pandemic by avoiding making the same mistakes made in the past. Both can also adopt some preventative measures taken in the past and adopt the right attitude. One example of a global pandemic that had a devastating impact on the economy and people’s lives is the 1918 Spanish flu. Many lessons can be drawn from that pandemic that had severe economic and psychological consequences…