Editing Gunnison, Colorado (section)

==={{anchor|SpanishFlu}} 20th and 21st centuries===
Gunnison residents [[protective sequestration|isolated themselves]] from the surrounding area during the [[Spanish Influenza]] epidemic for two months at the end of 1918. All highways were barricaded near the county lines. Train conductors warned all passengers that if they stepped outside of the train in Gunnison, they would be arrested and quarantined for five days.<ref>[https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/pdfs/06-0506.pdf H. Markel, A.M. Stern, J. A. Navarro, J. R. Michalsen, A. S. Monto, and C. DiGiovanni, "Nonpharmaceutical Influenza Mitigation Strategies, US Communities, 1918–1920 Pandemic," ''Emerging Infectious Diseases,'' Vol. 12, No. 12, December 2006.]</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Carroll |first1=Rory |title=Gunnison, Colorado: the town that dodged the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/gunnison-colorado-the-town-that-dodged-the-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic |website=guardian.co.uk |access-date=March 1, 2020 |date=March 1, 2020}}</ref> This served as partial inspiration for the novel ''[[The Last Town on Earth]]'' (2006) by [[Thomas Mullen (author)|Thomas Mullen]]. Although the isolation was at first successful at preventing transmission or deaths, the townspeople became restless after a few months, and the isolation was lifted in February 1919 only to have the flu arrive a month later, killing two people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/gunnison-spanish-flu-epidemic-response-coronavirus-research/73-67791a7a-0492-48d4-abe2-b0184f672825 |title=The 1918 Spanish flu killed 8,000 people in Colorado, but Gunnison only had 2 cases. Here's why |work=9News.com |last=Sylte |first=Allison |date=March 4, 2020 |access-date=August 8, 2021 }}</ref>