Politics killed thousands of people during the Spanish Flu between 1918 and 1920 here in the U.S. too

The 1918 to 1920 Spanish Flu killed about 650,000 Americans and about 50 million people worldwide.

I was watching the CNN Special about the Spanish Flu tonight with my wife.

For example, President Wilson NEVER mentioned Spanish Flu even once while he was president. Why?

Because World War I was on and that was considered to be more important a focus than a flu epidemic. Also, there was no CDC or WHO organizations then either and people hadn't even isolated what a flu was epidemiology wise and  wouldn't for at least 20 years after the pandemic was over.

In fact, President Wilson (even though he never mentioned the Spanish Flu once in public to anyone during his presidency basically died from complications of getting the Spanish Flu in Europe and this was part of the reason Hitler came to power because President Wilson was too sick to participate in the peace deal for Germany.

The most people that died in one city was in Philadelphia where they were having a parade that the health department begged them not to have. But, the goal was to sell War Bonds to pay for the war and this was considered more politically expedient than saving the lives of the people in Philadelphia. So, they had the big military parade and about 20,000 people died from Spanish Flu caused by the politics of this one parade.

So, like I said politics killed thousands from the Spanish flu just like it has in the coronavirus times we presently live in.

At least 650,000 people died from the Spanish Flu in the U.S. between 1918 and 1920 and our population now is 3 times what it was then. So, we likely should expect to lose 3 times more this time than then which is: 1,950,000 people.

This presentation on radio will be available on Friday January 8th at 1 pm:

https://tunein.com/radio/CNN-Special-Report-Pandemic-How-a-Virus-Changed-the-World-in-1918-p1390998/