The Spanish flu was a myth
🕰️ This was recorded in 2024.
Everything you were taught about this supposedly deadly virus from the early 20th century is nonsense. A lot of people did die, but not from a pathogen.
Michael Bryant, in his outstandingly researched article, Exploding the Spanish Flu Myth, notes that the Spanish flu wasn’t caused by a virus, but by the harsh environmental conditions of World War I. In other words, there is no evidence of a deadly pathogen spreading between people. What happened, as Michael explains, was a collection of war-related consequences.
I mean, isn’t it a total coincidence that WW1 and…
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