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Spanish Flu - Part 1: Modernity’s illusion of safety and the world before the invisible invasion
Modernity gave people confidence that distance meant safety. Trains, ships, and telegraphs shrank the world, but they also created blind spots. In spring nineteen eighteen, catastrophe slipped quietly into familiar routines—a sickness that looked ordinary, hiding in the machinery of war. Cities in Europe and North America believed they had left massive epidemics behind.
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