People Are Noticing How The Scenario Of The 1918 Spanish Flu Seems Eerily Similar To What We’re Currently Going Through

As much as we'd like to believe that our civilization has progressed unrecognizably during the last century, some things will probably always stay the same. These may include people who deny actual medicine and vaccines or think they know viruses and diseases better than doctors who have studied the subjects for decades.

History shows that during the 1918 pandemic (Spanish Flu), people were dealing with very similar problems we're dealing with today. "I’ve been reading about the 1918 pandemic, and this paragraph stuck out," one man shared on Twitter and attached an excerpt from a book. Reading it surely feels eerily familiar.

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"It is impossible to quantify how many deaths the lies caused," the excerpt from the book The Great Influenza reads. "It is impossible to quantify how many young men died because the army refused to follow the advice of its own surgeon general. But while those in authority were reassuring people that this was influenza, only influenza, nothing different from ordinary 'la grippe,' at least some people must have believed them, at least some people must have exposed themselves to the virus in ways they would not have otherwise, and at least some of these people must have died who would otherwise have lived. And fear really did kill people. It killed them because those who feared would not care for many of those who needed but could not find care, those who needed only hydration, food, and rest to survive."

People online were not super surprised that history is repeating itself. "Also, the surgeon general's advice was to wear a mask and keep two arms' length apart. Nothing much has changed," someone commented on Imgur. "The difference now is that we have Facebook connecting the dumbest among us to create an enormous hive mind of impenetrable abject stupidity," another user added.