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For those of us born relatively deep in the before times of the 20th century, it may come

as a rather shocking realization that World War I occurred now over a century ago, playing as the

backdrop on the positive side of astonishingly rapid progress in the fields of medicine, science,

technology, literature, and the arts, along with, on the downside, the past as ever being

the worst, such as the Spanish flu pandemic, which while World War I was raging, killing

about 20 million people, the Spanish flu was outdoing the humans in a much shorter span, killing between 50 to a hundred million people, and infecting around half a billion around the globe, roughly one in four humans at the time, and possibly killing as many as one in 20, between just 1918 and 1920.

That's not even to mention that just after the Spanish flu came the

encephalitis lethargica epidemic which swept across the world killing over a million people

while affecting numerous others before suddenly disappearing, leaving the finest scientific

minds of the age absolutely stumped, though today it's thought to have been caused by a rare

type of strep throat, which concerningly enough is still around today, and a subsequent immune

response gone awry. That one was particularly horrifying, as if it did not kill you, this

illness could instead potentially trap you inside your own body, stopping you from having the

will to move or speak,

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