[Covenantor]

There's a youtube video about the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in which a virologist speaking of patient zero throws out the possibility of an unknown Asian laborer as initial source but we'll never know for sure. That statement was preceded by the long history of plagues and pestilence originating in China.

On the naming of the "Spanish Flu"...WWI was in full swing with censorship by both sides regarding the devastation wreaked in the trenches and military camps...NOTHING was allowed to be mentioned regarding and epidemic. Spain remained neutral without censorship and thus the first published reports of the influenza epidemic appeared in the Spanish press and voila! Spanish flu.

Among Woodrow Wilson's long list or terrible decisions was one in which he kowtowed to Franco-British demands to ship in more troops while knowing of the fast moving epidemic. Packed into troop ships so crowded that troops slept on the decks, influenza ripped through like a chain saw...poor lads served up as a useless sacrifice in a war in which the US shoulf hsve never been involved.

[Travis McGee]