What I found so interesting reading this article and watching the video is that I\u2019ve learned about World War 1 numerous times but have never learned about the role the Spanish influenza played in it. I did not know that many of our deaths towards the end of the war were due to the rapid spread of the disease rather than battlefield casualties. I am left pondering who this part of the narrative seems to be left out. It makes sense that they wouldn\u2019t advertise it during the war because it would lower moral but why did my history classes leave it out?<\/p>\n
Another thing I found kind of funny when watching the video was the point Trevor Noah made when he said that we really haven\u2019t come that far. We still don\u2019t have many solutions to slow the spread of disease other than wear a mask and to stay away from infected people. We have come far in the sense that we know more of what causes these diseases and the many ways they spread but have not improved the solutions to these problems. Additionally, we make the same mistakes like as soon as restrictions are lifted we all immediately flood the streets, we don\u2019t have parades like they used to but the spike of people going out is the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What I found so interesting reading this article and watching the video is that I\u2019ve learned about World War 1 numerous times but have never…<\/p>\n