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Disaster attacks us timelessly, formlessly and bulurrlinglessly.

Now what we should be afraid of is ”Fear" itself. Fear anesthetize on the endeavor to exchange withdrawing into advancing, but we should confront to the difficulty in front of us by the warmest brave produced by National Unity.-----From the Franklin Roosevelt's Presidential Inauguration Speech.
However far time passes what we need does not change.

As the name of hatred disease "Spanish Flu" is known as common sense probably The King of Spain caught the cold and informed among general, but it is not a so simple story and he has no responsibility to that affair.

On March in 1938, the story began with the fever occurred among the new soldiers at recruit training center, Fanston Army Base at Kansas in US, the pathogen was brought by way of Migratory Birds, the overwintering ground of Canadian Goose, so considered.

A huge troopship named Leviathan carried over 10,000 soldiers from US to Brest, a port in Western France, so the original entrance gate of infectious disease to Europe for Spanish Flu was here. So the pathogen brought by US soldiers was scattered all over the battlefield in short period of time including to the enemy soldiers. It is also said that the epidemic of infectious disease has ended the long lasted battle.

It is not so difficult to imagine that the veterans pulled up would scattered the pathogen everywhere among European countries. The the King of Spain was influenced by that.
Consequently, naming the disease utilizing some specific region or country does give the bad impression, this is why the Greek letters might be applicable.

In Autumn 1918, Spanish Flu was re-imported to US and spreaded all over US and tremendous number of face masks were produced, the atmosphere that a greeting without mask was a rude that is the same even 100 years later. Going around outside without a face mask is regarded as the same person without "War bond purchase badge", immediately discriminated without argument.

As for our country at that time, 23,800,000 were infected resulting 390,000 fatal because of the same reason.
Exactly the same condition we are surrounded now as 100 years ago, no wonder prayers and curses are all the rage, no way to escape!

Spanish flu prevailed in 1918 wile the WW-Ⅰ, it spreaded according to the Army movement in Europe resulting over 40,000,000 victims and it lasted as long as 3 years. Though the cause of the disease was not defined at that time, later investigation proved the pathogen as some virus mutant strain.

In spite of 100 years researching period of time, we are helpless like an infant, it is true that we can define and analyze the toxicity of the pathogen as SARS CoV-2, but countermeasure for the disaster is not completed even now, although so many research reports are published in the world.

As it took us 3 years last time to complete the virus uproar 100 years ago, so the same period time might be required to settle down this time, no matter how we know and prove the pathogen of SARS CoV-2.

Natural selection had been done on living things on the Earth not only by climate change and food situation but also by Virus Resistance.
Mankind has evolved through Science and Technology to the 21st century, but it's not enough, don't you think?