London, 1952. Five days where you couldn’t see your own front door 🌫️
Buses needed a man walking ahead with a torch. Cinemas went dark mid-film. And the government’s official line? “Just a bad flu season.”
The real number came out decades later. It’s not what you’d expect.
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