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Lafiel said:
KiigelHeart said:
I'd much rather be in trenches drowning in mud than have a sore throat and aching muscles.

1918 be like "why not both?"

Thats why its called the Spanish Flu.

Other european countries were afraid to speak the truth, about the pandemic.
Scared of their enemies knowing they were weaken, or the moral hit, their soliders would have, if they knew it was like this all over the place (and not just their units).

The spanish went against convention and reported on it in news papers, telling the truth of the matter to its readers.
And thus it came to be known as the Spanish Flu.