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AlexandrB on May 16, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Rom...

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The Spanish Flu became as bad as it was because of a hot war - one of the hottest actually: WWI[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Timeline

mharig on May 18, 2024 [–]

Maybe. Maybe not. Search for the death rates in e.g. Switzerland and Germany.

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