"What's wrong, dear, can't sleep?" Monet walked up to Christina, who was blowing the wind on the balcony with two glasses of wine, handed her a glass of wine and asked.

Christina took a sip of wine, and then replied: "Tony, when I read books before, I always thought that the description of the plague in the Middle Ages was a bit exaggerated, but when I saw this Spanish flu today, I realized that I was narrow-minded, in terms of scale and severity, this Spanish flu is far worse than the plague, but it is shocking enough, it is really hard to imagine how terrible the Black Death was at that time!" ”

Monet nodded and agreed: "That's right, it's hard to really experience many things without experiencing them personally, but I think this illness is almost over, in fact, it's like rain, the heavier the rain, the shorter the time!" ”

"I hope so!" Christina replied casually, then changed the subject and asked, "By the way, Tony, do you think this Spanish flu will change people?" For example, after the Black Death in the Middle Ages, people realized the importance of hygiene and began to clean the city so that they would no longer be covered with feces and urine; Start bathing, no longer just take a bath once or twice in your life; Start paying attention to medical research, so as not to be at a loss when there is another epidemic! ”

Monet thought for a moment, then replied, "There should be a change." For example, health and medical care should be a public issue, not exclusive to the rich, because infectious diseases can be transmitted wirelessly, so the infection of the poor will also cause the rich to get sick, so protecting the poorest people is also protecting ourselves, cleaner water, richer nutrition, better public and private health conditions, and nipping diseases in the bud is the best way to resist such infectious diseases! ”

"Well, you have a point, but I suspect that even if you do this, it will only be around cities and wealthy areas, and it will not benefit all areas!" Christina analyzed very pessimistically.

"That's for sure, but it's always good to make a difference in the lives of more people!" Monet persuaded.

"That's right! Well, when the pandemic is over, I want to add some articles to Reader's Digest about what you just said about protecting the poorest, that is, protecting ourselves, in the hope that more powerful people will see it! Christina suggested.

"This is a good idea, and I will also write a few science fiction articles with this idea when the time comes, and warn everyone!" In fact, at this time, Monet was thinking of the disaster movies, apocalyptic texts and apocalyptic games such as "Frostpunk", and I feel that in the context of this time, everyone should have a deeper sense of substitution for this kind of work.

Monet's memory turned out to be correct, and at the end of October 1918, the deadly Spanish flu disappeared. Although reason told me that it was better to survive for a few more months, because there was a third wave of the virus, and although this third wave was basically powerless, it was based on those who survived the second offensive, not their own group of people who survived the second wave of the offensive.

But not to mention the women, even Monet himself is a little unbearable, because hiding in a small manor for more than three months and more than a hundred days is too torturous, if you don't come out to breathe, it is estimated that even if you are not infected with the virus, you will get mental illness, you must know that this is different from the national home isolation before the crossing, at least you can play games and watch dramas online, but now there is almost no entertainment except reading books and making villains, and the most depressing thing is that even villains have not been created......

On the other hand, the industry under his own hands has also forced himself to come out, because now that the epidemic has disappeared, all walks of life have begun to recover, in fact, even during the epidemic, there are peers who are not afraid of death, and Monet's magazines and cafes are closed, if they do not resume business at this time, then the market share that was hard to build before will not be able to be maintained!

So Monet took care of his own industries while looking at the harm caused by the Spanish flu around the world, and the results were really shocking!

During this time, the Spanish flu virus spread all over the world with the footsteps of the British and American forces, and it can actually be said that they are indirect murderers!

In the United States, 28% of the population is infected, and about 50~675,000 people die. Native American tribes were hit hard, with 188,000~337,000 people killed, and there were cases in Alaska where entire tribes were killed.

In the UK, up to 250,000 people died.

In France, more than 400,000 died.

In New Zealand, nearly 10,000 people died.

In Australia, 12,000 people lost their lives.

In Canada, 50,000 people died.

In Ghana, 100,000 people died.

In Brazil, 300,000 people died, including the then president of Brazil.

In Japan, 23 million people were infected and 390,000 died.

In Iran, an estimated 1 million to 2 million people died.

In Indonesia, 1.5 million people died.

The worst fatalities are in India, with as many as 17 million deaths, or about 5% of the country's population. (India is also estimated to have had the highest number of deaths this time.) ）

Fiji, where 5% of the population died; Tonga, where 8% of the population died; Nauru, 16% of the population died.

In Western Samoa, where the outbreak was most severe, 90 per cent of the population was infected, with 30 per cent of adult males, 22 per cent of adult females and 10 per cent of children dying, with 22 per cent dying within two months.

In the Gambia in Africa, the flu wiped out most of the villages; In Guam, Japan, where 10% of people die from the flu, in Delhi, India, some trains leave the station full of living people and arrive full of dead bodies......

In addition, China and the Soviet Union were in a state of chaos in 1918, and the data could not be counted, and even estimates were difficult.

According to experts' speculation, the 1918 pandemic infected 1/3 of the world's population (the total population was 1.7 billion at that time) and caused about 25 million ~ 40 million deaths (some experts estimate that it was 50 million ~ 1 billion).

This virus even became one of the reasons for the early end of the First World War.

Because of the busyness of this period and the impact of the epidemic on his mood, Monet forgot about a major event that was about to happen, that is, the first absurd decree in history for thirteen years - the prohibition of alcohol!

PS: I didn't have much preparation when I wrote these chapters, and there are a lot of things going on these days, so when I prepare well, I plan to write a story about the protagonist traveling to the Middle Ages during the Black Death to cure and save people, for example, the name is "The Reborn Bird's Beak Doctor".

PS2: Ask for another wave of collections and subscriptions, thank you!