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In an age of increasing nationalistic sentiments and military escalation, it's become a common trope that there's almost no one left to remember the tragedies of WWII. Coincidentally there's certainly nobody alive who remembers the previous pandemic, Spanish Flu.

(I say "previous" - there's an ongoing pandemic of HIV/aids, albeit a more gradual affair, but that's happening to Other People (TM))




The Spanish Flu epidemic was 1918-1920. There are quite a few who will remember that still.


Of the centenarians who were alive, very few were old enough then to remember anything.




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