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How the Spanish Flu Worked

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Is This Really the Worst Pandemic Ever?

This is a flucentric episode. So you sneeze, and that mass puffs out in little marticles spew maybe just not as far. They might be slowed down a little bit. Who knows, maybe like being pushed through like a little channel speeds them up andincreases ther truge. We don't know yet. But this is pretty appropriate that we're talking about this exactly a hundred years ago to day. Basically, the united states of the world really was standing there stricken, picking up the pieces of basically shattered societies all around the globe.

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