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This Isn’t America’s First Bout With An Outbreak—
Outbreaks in America date as far back as the 17th-
Century, when Smallpox came to North America killing over
70 percent of the Native American population. Entire Native
American tribes were destroyed, between 1633 and 1634.
Yellow fever, cholera, scarlet fever, typhoid fever,
influenza virus (the Spanish flu), diphtheria, polio, measles,
pertussis (known as whooping cough), and AIDS (the final
stage of HIV) have all struck North America, collectively
killing millions.
In 2009 to 2010, some of our younger Americans may
have been too young to understand what was taking place.
That was when the Swine flu pandemic killed over 200,000
people, and the United States was hit hard.
However, America’s recent Coronavirus outbreaks
could never measure up to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in
West Africa killing 11,000,300 people. Or the more than
two million lives that were taken by the Asian Flu from
1956 to 1958. And, especially not to HIV/AIDS with 25 to
35 million dead (and counting) from 1981 to the present.

Hands down though, the Spanish Flu has been the
most lethal in the 20th and 21st centuries… killing between
40 and 50 million people in just under two years, from 1918
to 1919. As with the case of the modern-day COVID, Spanish
flu was also introduced into the air through coughing.

The coronavirus virus is in droplets that are
released into the air when an infected person coughs,
sneezes or exhales. There were those who worked hard
at avoiding anyone who was sneezing or coughing, but
still contracted the coronavirus.
That confused a lot of people, until new information
was released. We now know that a person doesn’t have to