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I didn’t know much at all until I interviewed with a reinsurance firm fifteen years ago and it was mentioned three times that day. I wonder if it’s a “failure” of US history and thus not discussed widely
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I hadn't thought of it that way. Damn.
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Wow, me neither. I always think about that stuff in light of the experience of WWI, but yeah. Wow.
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I think all the horror of the flu got conflated with the horror of WWI, at least in American and European minds. It would be pretty hard to tease those apart.
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I did think the shut-down of some of the Iditarod checkpoints this year was interesting, with the direct reference to the outsized toll that the 1918 flu took on Alaska Native communities.
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More, please. I think you are right, the impact had to be huge but smothered by war.
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...and complicated by diphtheria, yellow fever, polio...
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