The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918: Explained Documentary
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Sylvia
I still feel the claim it came from Kansas alongside ill soldiers sent off to Europe is the most likely one. The China reasoning falls a bit flat when it comes to explainin how it spread so quickly to European nations and the Americas. Similarly so, the claim it started in Europe falls flat when explaining how it managed to hitch a ride back over; even before troops started returning en masse.
Its the theory that most neatly explains the quick spread of it and specifically it infecting Europe and the Americas more than anywhere else.
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I still feel the claim it came from Kansas alongside ill soldiers sent off to Europe is the most likely one. The China reasoning falls a bit flat when it comes to explainin how it spread so quickly to European nations and the Americas. Similarly so, the claim it started in Europe falls flat when explaining how it managed to hitch a ride back over; even before troops started returning en masse.
Its the theory that most neatly explains the quick spread of it and specifically it infecting Europe and the Americas more than anywhere else.
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Marco
I think its about time people stop calling it The Spanish Flu as it was coined by the two biggest oppressors with a history deeply rooted in racism. Yes, the U. S. and the U. K. Its 2022 and it should be called the 1918 H1N1 Flu/Pandemic. Its racist and offensive to refer to a deadly virus by a specific nationality especially when we know it didnt originate there.
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I think its about time people stop calling it The Spanish Flu as it was coined by the two biggest oppressors with a history deeply rooted in racism. Yes, the U. S. and the U. K. Its 2022 and it should be called the 1918 H1N1 Flu/Pandemic. Its racist and offensive to refer to a deadly virus by a specific nationality especially when we know it didnt originate there.
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Tommy
Doctor: Do you want the good news or the bad news? -
Patient: oh the good news.
Doctor: well pneumonia can be easily treated by antibiotics
Patient - oh super thats the best news ever - whats the bad news?
Doctor: .ach i dont want to say now it will just depress you - get well son.
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Doctor: Do you want the good news or the bad news? -
Patient: oh the good news.
Doctor: well pneumonia can be easily treated by antibiotics
Patient - oh super thats the best news ever - whats the bad news?
Doctor: .ach i dont want to say now it will just depress you - get well son.
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random
All good reasons at the end for why the Spanish Flu wouldn't loom even larger in history but how much better remembered should it be? I learned about it in school in Canada in the early 80s if not slightly earlier. It got covered in any survey history of WW1 or of the period in general.
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All good reasons at the end for why the Spanish Flu wouldn't loom even larger in history but how much better remembered should it be? I learned about it in school in Canada in the early 80s if not slightly earlier. It got covered in any survey history of WW1 or of the period in general.
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Thomas
1: 48 I believe that general holding up the NINTH TIME IS THE CHARM sign represents Luigi Cordona, winner over some extremely vigorous competition for the Worst General of World War I prize. He launched nine consecutive battles along the Isonzo river resulting in nine failures.
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1: 48 I believe that general holding up the NINTH TIME IS THE CHARM sign represents Luigi Cordona, winner over some extremely vigorous competition for the Worst General of World War I prize. He launched nine consecutive battles along the Isonzo river resulting in nine failures.
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RazorWinter
No way this s-it didn't come from the trenches. Rats and disease everywhere, low food, lowered immunity, deplorable sanitary conditions, and some with water all the way to the chest because of rains. Might as well put the spanish flu casualties together with the WWI ones.
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No way this s-it didn't come from the trenches. Rats and disease everywhere, low food, lowered immunity, deplorable sanitary conditions, and some with water all the way to the chest because of rains. Might as well put the spanish flu casualties together with the WWI ones.
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jigi
The flu is related to the pandemic because massive movement and concentration of men (millions of soldiers) and the population weakened by war (especially in Central Europe under blockade) made the epidemic much faster and deadly
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The flu is related to the pandemic because massive movement and concentration of men (millions of soldiers) and the population weakened by war (especially in Central Europe under blockade) made the epidemic much faster and deadly
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Ian
worked in an old mental hospital in the 1980s and the Spanish flu was remembered of some older staff, I think they were memories of older staff who had since left telling of mass burials in the small graveyard of the hospital
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worked in an old mental hospital in the 1980s and the Spanish flu was remembered of some older staff, I think they were memories of older staff who had since left telling of mass burials in the small graveyard of the hospital
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Jim
0: 00 - 0: 03
While history may, in fact, be full of things that are not very fun: all those horrible people shown for the first three seconds are simply the cutest, most adorable evil monsters I have ever laid eyes on.
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While history may, in fact, be full of things that are not very fun: all those horrible people shown for the first three seconds are simply the cutest, most adorable evil monsters I have ever laid eyes on.
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Stephen
FAIR WARNING (Boomerspeak for _Spoiler Alert_ ): I don't know why I trust my fellow _homo sapiens sapiens_ to be the least bit intelligent, but the comment section is an industrial farm of trolls.
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FAIR WARNING (Boomerspeak for _Spoiler Alert_ ): I don't know why I trust my fellow _homo sapiens sapiens_ to be the least bit intelligent, but the comment section is an industrial farm of trolls.
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Shawn
Here's a fun fact: Syphilis was so prevalent in Europe that eventually wearing a wig became popular because so many of the nobility lost their hair from this disease and we're already wearing wigs.
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Here's a fun fact: Syphilis was so prevalent in Europe that eventually wearing a wig became popular because so many of the nobility lost their hair from this disease and we're already wearing wigs.
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HaniiPuppy
The Spanish Flu did not just disappear, it displaced all existing flu and developed into less deadly variants, and all current strains of flu are descended from H1N1.
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The Spanish Flu did not just disappear, it displaced all existing flu and developed into less deadly variants, and all current strains of flu are descended from H1N1.
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John
Actually, the 'Spanish' flu is still with us. It's just a much milder disease now, and forms part of the seasonal flu outbreaks every winter.
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Actually, the 'Spanish' flu is still with us. It's just a much milder disease now, and forms part of the seasonal flu outbreaks every winter.
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Markus
were talking about a viral pneumonia here. So antibiotics would not have been the cure. (just for secondary bacterial pneumonia)
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were talking about a viral pneumonia here. So antibiotics would not have been the cure. (just for secondary bacterial pneumonia)
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Jinjun
Madagascar left untouched. bet that was a slight nod to the plague inc game where it was almost impossible to infect madagascar
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Madagascar left untouched. bet that was a slight nod to the plague inc game where it was almost impossible to infect madagascar
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Maiki
I mean even if antibiotics were invented at the moment thew wouldn't do much against a virus but I guess you do you, boo
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I mean even if antibiotics were invented at the moment thew wouldn't do much against a virus but I guess you do you, boo
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Caz
Other pandemics were way more deadly than what we experience now with the coronavirus thanks God medicine has progressed
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Other pandemics were way more deadly than what we experience now with the coronavirus thanks God medicine has progressed
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saboo
2020: hahaha there was also a world war during the last pandemic imagine if it happened again
2022: wait no
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2020: hahaha there was also a world war during the last pandemic imagine if it happened again
2022: wait no
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Amers
Why is nobody pointing out that its completely ok to say spanish flu while chinese flu is absolutely wrong
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Why is nobody pointing out that its completely ok to say spanish flu while chinese flu is absolutely wrong
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Seth
Eventually the pandemic reached all the corners of the world except Madagascar. Apparently they're immune.
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Eventually the pandemic reached all the corners of the world except Madagascar. Apparently they're immune.
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