(Heard some of this when it was first aired. A fascinating and scary story.)
We know that the 1918 pandemic is often referred to as the Spanish flu — but it certainly didn't originate there. The first wave of the influenza hit soldiers on the battlefields of Europe and leaders on both sides of World War I kept it quiet to not admit weakness. Only the press in neutral Spain actually reported on it, and the pandemic got its name from the assumption that it came from there.John Barry <http://www.johnmbarry.com/>, author of/The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History <https://bookshop.org/books/the-great-influenza-the-story-of-the-deadliest-pandemic-in-history-revised/9780143036494>/, spoke with Brooke about how the press coverage in the US was also stifled by wartime censorshipand a misguided effort to boost morale, and what that might have meant for our collective amnesia about the huge death toll in 1918.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/why-press-downplayed-1918-flu-on-the-media -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4010): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4010 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/78589961/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
