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[DragonBear]

You can more accurately blame WWI and the concentration and transfer of troops from camps

And Wilson was the president who can take some blame

Wilson was denying while it was occurring. The other similarity between the "Spanish Flu" and "Chinese Plague" is that both apparently originated or at least were spread from China. Approx 95K Chinese Laborers left the port of Qingdao, were transported across Canada by train. "Left Nova Scotia; by ship to Plymouthand other English ports; by train to Folkestone in southern England; before embarkation to their destination in France and Flanders".

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The reason it was called the Spanish flu is simply because Spain didn't participate in WW1. Therefore its press was free from military censorship to report on the flu.

Wilson didn't have half the benefits Trumpy had in dealing with the Spanish Flu vs Covid...

Wilson didn't have a WHO sounding an alarm of a pandemic. Trumpy did.

Wilson didn't ask Chinese scientists for virus sequences. There was no such capability in 1918. Trumpy flocked up US-Chinese relations with his tariff war. Making the Chinese less than fully cooperative.

The most vulnerable age per the Linky for the Spanish flu was 28 yrs old. Precisely the age group of US Army troops in crowded conditions during 1918. There was no way to perform contract tracing, or perform antigen testing via swabs in 1918. The most vulnerable for Covid 65+. Where early on in early Feb 2020 there was a chance of containing the virus. A time period when Trumpy was saying Covid was a Demonrat hoax. When Trumpy made fun of preventative measures such as masks.

In 1918 there were no antiviral drugs. No Dexamethasone to tap down cytokine storms. No antibiotics for secondary infections. No vaccines. There was little Wilson could do. Meanwhile Trumpy was suggesting quackery cures. Then when the vaccines started to arrive. He failed to lock in, up to 200M doses of the Pfizer vaccine. And left office with no Federal vaccine distribution plan outside of nursing homes. Trumpy promised 20M would be vaccinated by 31-Dec-2020. The true figure was 3M. Trumpy proudly proclaimed: "The Federal Government has distributed the vaccines to the states. Now it is up to the states to administer. Get moving!". The States replied: What vaccine? We have received very little. One can only imagine how screwed up the vaccine distribution would be today, if Trumpy had remained in office. No doubt blaming the Govs in the blue states for lack of vaccination.

The US was saved from further deaths in 1918 by the end of WW1, and the natural end of the flu virus. The US in 2021 will be saved from major further pain, by Trumpy having lost the election. Where he can no longer damage the vaccine rollout.