It is interesting to see how this world always surprises us. Each year the governments of all countries prepare a budget. They plan each event in the country that could happen and set a date for that event. But what if mother nature planned something differently?
As the first World War drew to a close in 1918, a devastating outbreak killed hundreds of people. The disease was caused by a virus that took place in the respiratory tract and came to be known as the Spanish influenza virus. It killed millions of the world’s populations at that time. The world was inhabited by 2 billion people then, which means that about 500 million people were infected with the virus at that time, killing between 50 million and 100 million people.
Even the figures themselves are not well known because, at that time, the method was not as stable as it is today. What is known is that the disease killed more people than these two combined wars.
At the time of the massacre in September 1918, cities in the United States were preparing for the war to support the war effort. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 600 soldiers had already been infected, but city officials decided to continue the training program as if it had never happened. Officials in St. Louis, Missouri, have now decided to postpone the training to prevent people from coming together to contaminate each other.
In just one month, tens of thousands of people in the Philadelphia area had been killed, while in St. Louis, it had killed at least 700 people. It is not only the postponement of the training that has made this difference in the number of people killed by this epidemic, but also the measures to work together and to stay in their homes.
We have also done this in the fight against COVID-19. The steps we have taken in the battle against the epidemic are already familiar to us. So, there is a behavior that we will have when the epidemic is over.
In 1918 the first world war between the two opposing sides began to lose its soldiers. Not only were they killed by bullets, but most of them were killed by the Spanish influenza virus. Both French, American, Canadian, and German. Everywhere the soldiers began to die in large numbers.
Each side thinks there is no reason to tell the enemy that your Army is being killed by an epidemic. When Spain was not in the war, it was on the media. It announces to its people that there is an outbreak of the flu that is devastating, which is why they called it Spanish flu. The whole world said the flu came from Spain because it was the country that announced it. In just five months, the flu had spread worldwide; that’s when the mouth masks came out. People started social distancing
If you calculated year by year is 102 years ago, that happened.at that time; there was no vaccine because the first flu vaccine was first discovered in the USA in 1940. Another serious problem was that time of the first World War; it had killed scientists and researchers in such a way that no one would have made vaccines. Because there was no cure, doctors gave patients only anti-inflammatory drugs.
The drug they were given is aspirin. It was a drug that had been developed by a German company called Bayer in 1899, and the company is still looking for a cure for COVID-19. The flu has never been treated with a vaccine. In the spring of 1919, this epidemic ended itself. We now need to maintain social distance and follow health guidelines to reduce the spread if the virus till a vaccine gets developed. In the mean time here is how to spy on someone’s phone while you are at home taking care of yourself.