What affects did the 1918 flu (aka Spanish flu) have on European culture and demographics?
Why isn't more known about it in modern days?
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I don't know what effect it had on European culture and demographics, but considering it killed 2% of the world population, it probably had some effect.
>>540669
Honestly it's surprising how little people know about the flu, I have only recently heard of it.
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My great-great grandmother died of that shit.
it's effects, retard
not affects
and I have no idea
>>541272
It had affects, loathing, grief, catharsis. But yes, OP almost certainly meant effects.
>>540550
Now that that's sorted out, who's this baby-batter nagger?
>>540813
My grandma's parents died from it.
>>540550
The deaths of so many people almost certainly depressed the economy. This would've contributed to the rise of extreme ideologies at the time. It's dificult to say for sure since the relationships are complex, but perhaps the flu played a bigger role in setting off the events that led to WW2 than people realize.
>>540550
People don't know about the spanish flu? Really?
It kind of blended in with the horrors of WW1.
That and there was large amounts of media censorship.
Hence why it's called the Spanish flu, despite the fact that the best guess epidemiologists have is that it came from Kansas. Spain was a neutral country, and therefore the only place in Europe that reported the epidemic accurately, so people assumed it came from there.
>>544129
Scary
>>540550
didn't it start in Kansas or somewhere's around there?
Yes.
plebs died at a slightly higher rate than usual
