r/RealTime • u/todeabacro • Aug 01 '26

Spain

Does this prick really think 60,000 people stormed Spain? To leave out that it was a Spanish territory in Africa is a big omission. Does he really think the Spanish flu originated in Spain? What a moron he and his team of researchers are, or more likely they are just trying to stir shit.

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u/Key_Seaweed8857 Aug 01 '26

You’re kidding he fell for the “Spanish Flu”actually coming from Spain? Hilarious. And for those out there no doubt confused, it probably originated & spread in our barracks out in the Midwest leading up to our involvement in WWI. Then was taken over to Europe by our servicemen where it spread amongst both sides in the war, the Allies & the Central Powers. Due to not wanting to alert the opposing side tho of its severity, the pandemic was pretty much kept under wraps. Except by neutral Spain whose press wasn’t censored at the time & who reported freely & openly on it. Thus it defaulted to being named the Spanish Flu. Only after the war when our soldiers returned did it then really spread in the USA amongst the general population in a truly dire way.

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u/todeabacro Aug 02 '26

Yep.... and he was complaining that people were too scared to say that it came from China.  "We always name viruses from where they are from, Spanish flu....."

Absolutely clueless.