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		miroljub on May 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Rom... We all know that wars end pandemics. As soon as the hot phase of the war in the Ukraine restarted, Covid was "gone". Maybe something similar was the case in the Roman times too.

AlexandrB on May 16, 2024 [–]

???

The Spanish Flu became as bad as it was because of a hot war - one of the hottest actually: WWI[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Timeline

mharig on May 18, 2024 | [–]

Maybe. Maybe not. Search for the death rates in e.g. Switzerland and Germany.

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