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Originally Posted by Jay Random
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.
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If you are going to insist that containment of a virus was harder in the world of 1920 than today, then we will agree to disagree. Whatever. Doesn’t change the fact COVID-19 is going to severely damage the business of pro sports. Like real bad.