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Graylight · 51-55, F
Well, One: [quote]Spain was one of only a few major European countries to remain neutral during World War I. Unlike in the Allied and Central Powers nations, where wartime censors suppressed news of the flu to avoid affecting morale, the Spanish media was free to report on it in gory detail. News of the sickness first made headlines in Madrid in late-May 1918, and coverage only increased after the Spanish King Alfonso XIII came down with a nasty case a week later. Since nations undergoing a media blackout could only read in depth accounts from Spanish news sources, they naturally assumed that the country was the pandemic’s ground zero. The Spanish, meanwhile, believed the virus had spread to them from France, so they took to calling it the “French Flu.”
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Two, humans evolve. When we learn better, we do better. To ask why it's not okay to act the same way we did 100 years ago is to ask why we can't throw crying tantrums like a child in the store anymore.
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Two, humans evolve. When we learn better, we do better. To ask why it's not okay to act the same way we did 100 years ago is to ask why we can't throw crying tantrums like a child in the store anymore.
