Ok, this is for the people who are asking things like, "Is it still around?", "Oh come on, it's not even that bad," and "It's bullshit, it's only killed 150 people so far." I think Newgrounds could seriously do with small peice of little known history here.
Did you know that the 1918 Spanish Flu actually went around the world 3 times between 1916 and 1919? It was the second wave that was the deadliest, and the one that we know about today. It started as a flu outbreak in and around Etaples in France during WW1, with about 30,000 infections, and about 150 deaths to start with.
When the soldiers at Etaples went back to their home country, the disease was spread around the globe, causing what we now call the 1918 Spanish Flu.
Now, has anybody learnt anything from this? Anything at all that could be applied to todays Swine Flu situation?
I know, I've posted these exact words before, no one actually pays attention to the lessons that things in the past can tell us about things today.
