Spanish Flu was heavily censored. Corona may be the most documented global event in human history.
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I think he meant censored at the time. Example. While it originated in the US, and spread on the front lines of WW1, it was called the Spanish flu since it was first seriously reported in Spain, a non-combatant country many months after it spread thru front lines.
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Oh yeah, I read those already. Recommended it with several others a while ago. Parsimonious explanation for why Spanish Flu wasn't well remembered is effective contemporaneous censorship. Memory hole is real. Later, esp. with the internet, we could dig.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1235804652765155328 …
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