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Originally Posted by Corral
Remember that was a world where the only way to travel across oceans was by boat and most people still relied on horses or train for long distance overland. Containment was much easier And it still killed 50 million.
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Containment of the Spanish flu was not easier, it was
impossible. The principal breeding ground for the virus was the huge body of troops awaiting discharge at the end of the First World War, and they
had to be repatriated to their home countries (where they spread the virus like wildfire) because they could not simply be kept on the battlefields and left to die.
The Black Death killed nearly as many people as the Spanish flu, out of a far smaller population, in a world that had no railways and no transoceanic travel at all. Modern transportation isn't the game-changer that you make it out to be. Pandemics don't need aeroplanes to spread.