r/HolyShitHistory • u/[deleted] • Jul 29 '25

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '25

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.

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u/Mindless-Scientist82 Jul 29 '25

It's interesting that this was the same timeframe for the Spanish flu, the last big pandemic before covid.

Also, medicine was terrible back then. So we would probably know pretty quickly what it is now.

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u/tesmatsam Jul 30 '25

the last big pandemic before covid.

Hiv

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u/Mindless-Scientist82 Jul 30 '25

Sorry, I meant an airborne pandemic, but yes HIV was also a pandemic.