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Spanish flu vs COVID-19: An Australian perspective of a pandemic | Australian Story
ABC(Australia) News in-depth ^ | 6/1/20 | ABC News

Posted on 09/04/2021 1:51:57 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Until COVID-19 struck, very few had ever spared a thought for the 15,000 Australian victims of the "forgotten flu" that swept the globe during 1918-19


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: australia; covid19; spanishflu
I found this documentary fascinating. It reminds of the saying "everything old is new again".

I know it is youtube, but I could not find it anywhere else.

1 posted on 09/04/2021 1:51:57 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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Spanish Flu is nothing like COVID.
There were 20m unburied dead lying in Europe before it hit.


3 posted on 09/04/2021 3:53:03 PM PDT by Zathras
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4 posted on 09/04/2021 3:56:18 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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