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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Weeds. I'm very excited for today's episode,

which takes a break from our current pandemic to tell you the story of the beginning and

end of another. So before COVID, the biggest disease outbreak in modern memory was the

1918-1919 flu outbreak. Dubbed the Spanish flu in the press somewhat erroneously, which

we'll get into. The diseases origins are still disputed, but it wound up killing millions

of people around the world, spreading rapidly among troops fighting world or one, and

forcing civilians into lockdowns, quarantines and other measures that feel disturbingly familiar

at this point. I started reading about the 1918 flu in March 2020, and at the time the

parallels to COVID felt sort of minor. The world was such a different place 100 years ago,

medical knowledge was so much more limited, but COVID had since then proved that a mass

casualty event like the 1918 flu could happen again, and the parallels feel spookier than

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