Does somebody owe the world an apology for the Spanish Flu?

[fantome profane]

For those who are not familiar with the history: Spanish flu - Wikipedia

So isn’t it about time someone issue a formal apology for this? This infected over 500 million people worldwide. Millions died. And the country where this virus originated deliberately prevented necessary information from being reported.

Should there be an official apology?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Should there be an official apology?

You gonna wake the dead for this to happen? Apologies from anyone else are basically meaningless and empty gestures at best. It's the past, everyone involved is dead, time to move on.

 

[fantome profane]

You gonna wake the dead for this to happen? Apologies from anyone else are basically meaningless and empty gestures at best. It's the past, everyone involved is dead, time to move on.

Do you think they should have apologized 100 years ago?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Do you think they should have apologized 100 years ago?

That would have been the time for it.

 

[Wandering Monk]

For those who are not familiar with the history: Spanish flu - Wikipedia

So isn’t it about time someone issue a formal apology for this? This infected over 500 million people worldwide. Millions died. And the country where this virus originated deliberately prevented necessary information from being reported.

Should there be an official apology?

'No one believes the so-called “Spanish flu” originated in Spain.

The pandemic likely acquired this nickname because of World War I, which was in full swing at the time. The major countries involved in the war were keen to avoid encouraging their enemies, so reports of the extent of the flu were suppressed in Germany, Austria, France, the United Kingdom and the U.S. By contrast, neutral Spain had no need to keep the flu under wraps. That created the false impression that Spain was bearing the brunt of the disease.

In fact, the geographic origin of the flu is debated to this day, though hypotheses have suggested East Asia, Europe and even Kansas.'​

10 Misconceptions About the 1918 Flu, the ‘Greatest Pandemic in History’

 

[BSM1]

What good would this do?

 

[leov]

For those who are not familiar with the history: Spanish flu - Wikipedia

So isn’t it about time someone issue a formal apology for this? This infected over 500 million people worldwide. Millions died. And the country where this virus originated deliberately prevented necessary information from being reported.

Should there be an official apology?

Rockefeller?

 

[columbus]

Do you think they should have apologized 100 years ago?

The list of things "people from centuries ago" should apologize for is epic!

Why is this one important?
Tom

 

[fantome profane]

What good would this do?

None at all.

Why is this one important?
Tom

It isn’t.

 

[BSM1]

The list of things "people from centuries ago" should apologize for is epic!

Why is this one important?
Tom

It sounds cool in Spanish, "Lo Siento, B****es"

 

[Polymath257]

For those who are not familiar with the history: Spanish flu - Wikipedia

So isn’t it about time someone issue a formal apology for this? This infected over 500 million people worldwide. Millions died. And the country where this virus originated deliberately prevented necessary information from being reported.

Should there be an official apology?

Which country was that? As I understand it, we simply don't know where this one originated. Spain didn't have wartime censorship, so reported it when other countries didn't.

 

[Mister Emu]

And the country where this virus originated deliberately prevented necessary information from being reported

I do think China should apologize for all of the unnecessary suffering their lifestyle creates through deadly biological phenomena. Plague, Spanish Flu, Coronavirus, when will the madmen of the east be stopped?








The above should only be read and understood as satire.

 

[oldbadger]

For those who are not familiar with the history: Spanish flu - Wikipedia

So isn’t it about time someone issue a formal apology for this? This infected over 500 million people worldwide. Millions died. And the country where this virus originated deliberately prevented necessary information from being reported.

Should there be an official apology?

First and foremost I would like an apology from those raping, pillaging, looting, murderin' Vikings.

 

[dfnj]

For those who are not familiar with the history: Spanish flu - Wikipedia

So isn’t it about time someone issue a formal apology for this? This infected over 500 million people worldwide. Millions died. And the country where this virus originated deliberately prevented necessary information from being reported.

Should there be an official apology?

Trump! I just want to see him admit to being wrong on something just once.

 

[columbus]

First and foremost I would like an apology from those raping, pillaging, looting, murderin' Vikings.

As an Irish American, I've got some things I want from you Brits.

Pull up a stool. Get comfortable.
Want a pint as we get started?
Tom

 

[ChristineM]

First and foremost I would like an apology from those raping, pillaging, looting, murderin' Vikings.

Hey, im from viking ancestry and i ain't never done no raping, pillaging, looting and murderin' ... Honest guv.

 

[ChristineM]

As an Irish American, I've got some things I want from you Brits.

Pull up a stool. Get comfortable.
Want a pint as we get started?
Tom

Would that be a pint of whiskey

 

[Twilight Hue]

For those who are not familiar with the history: Spanish flu - Wikipedia

So isn’t it about time someone issue a formal apology for this? This infected over 500 million people worldwide. Millions died. And the country where this virus originated deliberately prevented necessary information from being reported.

Should there be an official apology?

Why?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Trump! I just want to see him admit to being wrong on something just once.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The list of things "people from centuries ago" should apologize for is epic!

Why is this one important?
Tom

Maybe we should pretend that'll be a real proposal, get all the hyper partisan con and lib hacks fighting over who should apologize or not and who should and shouldn't get them, they'll give each other corona, and then we can quarantine then on an island under a "set it and forget it" type of condition.