A very good summation of the ‘Spanish flu’ can be seen here:
It quite possibly started here in the US in Kansas, spread to Europe with the troops, infected soldiers in Europe and when the troops came home infected the world. 1000s died a day here in the US. Almost paradoxically, it tended to hit healthy adults in the prime of life harder than children or geezers.
And yet we did cope and survive as a society. Don’t how we’ll fare with the next one.
Can you imagine the out cry from the snowflakes if ten people died every day in a medium sized city? (It happens during the winter...but no one realizes it.)
I’m concerned about the future. It seems to me that something catastrophic may be in the future.
‘Spanish flu’
If I remember correctly, this is the same as the Swine Flu of the 1970s which was gonna kill us ALL!. I believe ONE MAN did come down with the Swine Flu back then, and every reporter beat a trail to his door for an interview. More people died, standing in line for the shot, from old age than the flu.