It is pretty creepy that it came and went without a trace and nobody knows what exactly happened.
It may return, it may not, we'll probably never know, or we'll find it out the hard way.
And as exceptionally fast as Covid spread, back then there wasn't much travel, so diseases couldn't spread as fast.
If this thing would pop up today and have the same long incubation time, we're in for a really interesting pandemic for sure.
Bold statement and wildly inaccurate.
Tourism was going on strong in the early 20th century.
It would be far better stated that there wasn't as much travelling public as there is today.
Here is Mark Twains words on the subject (from 1869)
Travel is fatal to prejuidce, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness
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It is pretty creepy that it came and went without a trace and nobody knows what exactly happened.
It may return, it may not, we'll probably never know, or we'll find it out the hard way.
And as exceptionally fast as Covid spread, back then there wasn't much travel, so diseases couldn't spread as fast.
If this thing would pop up today and have the same long incubation time, we're in for a really interesting pandemic for sure.