[madison10]

The Spanish flu had two outbreaks. The initial one and then a second outbreak that was a result of a parade in Philly to promote givernment binds fir WW1. The second outbreak was much worse than the first.

Authorities did not want the parade to happen, but they had it anyway.

Not so coincidently it is surmised that the Spanish flu also originated in China.

Who knows how long people wore masks.

[SoCal Pubbie]

There were actually four different waves. The suggestion that the second one was a result of that parade in Philadelphia is preposterous. The second wave was seeded in New England by troops returning from Europe.

[DugwayDuke]

madison10 wrote: “The Spanish flu had two outbreaks. The initial one and then a second outbreak that was a result of a parade in Philly to promote givernment bonds for WW1. The second outbreak was much worse than the first.
Authorities did not want the parade to happen, but they had it anyway.”

Nancy Pelosi committed a similar act when she actively encouraged people to go to China Town for dinner. Then, of course, there were the ‘peaceful protests’ we’re now experiencing.

madison10 wrote: “Not so coincidently it is surmised that the Spanish flu also originated in China.”

Others speculate that it started in Kansas. It certainly didn’t originate in Spain.

“Who knows how long people wore masks.”

The article says six weeks.

FWIW, my father told me his mother (whom I never met) died of the ‘Spanish Flu’. She passed in the last outbreak in very early 1920. She was only 30. The Spanish Flu was much harder on the young than the CV.