• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You can have some solace knowing the same happened during the Spanish Flu. The Dark Ages are much closer than they seem.

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      7 months ago

      Funny name given that it didn’t come from Spain but from the US (IIRC).

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        7 months ago

        It was called that because Spain was the only country accurately reporting cases. So it made it seem like they had it the worst, even tho they didn’t.