COMMENT | Like the Spanish flu, Covid-19 brings death, silently and swiftly.
| Let's dust off the history shelves and look at 1918 - the year the world was ravaged by a flu pandemic that killed more than 50 million people. Called the Spanish flu, the disease appeared at a time when the world was wrecked by war.
Like the Spanish flu, the 21st Century nasty coronavirus - Covid-19 - also moved quietly and swiftly across the world with devastating results. More than 11,500 have died and still counting. But this attempt at censorship failed because when the flu struck Spain, which had remained neutral in the war, the Spanish papers went to town with it, highlighting this strange, unknown illness. Soon it was dubbed the "Spanish flu", although its exact origin was a matter of dispute.
Many countries, too, were complacent, indifferent and slow to react to the emerging danger. When they did batten down the hatches in crisis mode, it was too late to stop the viral invasion. Like in 1918, the coronavirus spread like wildfire, crossing borders unhindered and bringing death in its wake. Fear "rode on the shoulders of the world".
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