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pink

(497 posts) Wed Jun 24, 2020, 10:50 PM Jun 2020

In regards to Trump's racist remarks about covid 19

The first case of "Spanish" flu was recorded in Kansas. Just saying...

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In regards to Trump's racist remarks about covid 19 (Original Post) pink Jun 2020 OP

Bull. Every disease and every ailment started in China dalton99a Jun 2020 #1

From what I hear pink Jun 2020 #2

The Kansas connection is well documented dalton99a Jun 2020 #3

dalton99a

(81,371 posts)

1. Bull. Every disease and every ailment started in China

Reply to pink (Original post)

Wed Jun 24, 2020, 11:16 PM

Jun 2020

Indigestion, herpes, diabetes, restless leg syndrome, cancer, fibromyalgia, flu, lower back pain, constipation, smelly armpits, cirrhosis, excess body fat, idiocy, etc. etc.

pink

(497 posts)

2. From what I hear

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 24, 2020, 11:23 PM

Jun 2020

Spain was one of the very few countries that didn't have strong censorship with their media at that time, so they ended up wearing the name.

dalton99a

(81,371 posts)

3. The Kansas connection is well documented

Reply to pink (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 24, 2020, 11:27 PM

Jun 2020

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/
How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States
By John M. Barry
Smithsonian Magazine
November 2017

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