Yes indeed, good point Steve, ... If I am not mistaken the "Spanish flu" was only termed so because Spain was the only country to admit that the pandemic actually existed. Unless I am mistaken other countries were busy in war and perhaps in such a state of denial to admit there was a problem and that in reality the flu might have originated from pigs or swine in America.
One of the historical facts that impresses me the most is the footage of people carrying on celebrating war victories and such meanwhile this microscopic entity killed more people than were murdered in four wars combined making me think flu and diseases even of today should be considered the true enemy. For some reasons plagues and diseases always seem to corresponds during wartime like one exasperates or inspires the other .. methinks this should not be ignored and that this phenomena we call disease and viruses should be treated more like an enemy.
One can’t help but wonder had our President not caught covid three times the future and even his future might prove different ..
The documentary of 1918 shows soldiers carelessly spreading disease continent to continent made me think of the way we tend to repeat history like when both republican and democratic parties hold superspreader events for the sake of their elections in the very midst of pandemic or when the president sat unmasked eating pizza with soldiers in 2022, also in midst of pandemic:Yes indeed, good point Steve, ... If I am not mistaken the "Spanish flu" was only termed so because Spain was the only country to admit that the pandemic actually existed. Unless I am mistaken other countries were busy in war and perhaps in such a state of denial to admit there was a problem and that in reality the flu might have originated from pigs or swine in America.
One of the historical facts that impresses me the most is the footage of people carrying on celebrating war victories and such meanwhile this microscopic entity killed more people than were murdered in four wars combined making me think flu and diseases even of today should be considered the true enemy. For some reasons plagues and diseases always seem to corresponds during wartime like one exasperates or inspires the other .. methinks this should not be ignored and that this phenomena we call disease and viruses should be treated more like an enemy.
One can’t help but wonder had our President not caught covid three times the future and even his future might prove different ..
The documentary of 1918 shows soldiers carelessly spreading disease continent to continent made me think of the way we tend to repeat history like when both republican and democratic parties hold superspreader events for the sake of their elections in the very midst of pandemic or when the president sat unmasked eating pizza with soldiers in 2022, also in midst of pandemic:
https://youtu.be/vgYx6NeopCs... methinks the multitude today have no clue as to how close they really are to the edge of possible personal extinction considering with every covid variant there remains a shroud of mystery as to its ability or potential to wreak destruction...
I happen to think covid a much more serious disease than many think because on first sight it may appear that covid isnt killing people directly, however covid's long term repercussions may be killing many people indirectly..not to mention overtime each of covid's mutations may prove lethal eventually...
This appears to have occurred with the incorrectly termed so-called 'Spanish flu' that probably originated in America as "swine flu" in that it started out humbly enough not killing anyone at first but over time winded up killing more people than soldiers in a four wars combined did...
"The microscopic killer circled the entire globe in four months, claiming the lives of more than 21 million people. The United States lost 675,000 people to the Spanish flu in 1918-more casualties than World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined.
"World War I ended in 1918, when Germany signed an armistice agreement with the victorious Allies. The war had cost the lives of more than 9 million combatants plus millions of civilians. Meanwhile, an even more deadly threat emerged: the influenza pandemic, which would take another 50 million lives worldwide".
Topic: 1918: How A Flu Virus Became The World's Deadliest Pandemic (Read 97 times)