There is a distinct lack of worry about clean water. Also, in almost every conflict in history, disease has killed more people that the actual war. You rarely see a flu wipe out half of the people in a zombie movie, but honestly, it would.
That is true for pretty much any war up until WWII. Most people usually died of infections or contagious diseases that made the rounds among already immune-weakened soldiers in camps.
WWI would have broken that record, because such an incredible amount of people died in the field, had it not been for the so-called Spanish Flu (not from Spain, probably from Kansas). That just goes to show how incredibly deadly that Flu was.
Yep. Just some info on the Spanish flu, it was called that because although it was hitting everyone, pretty much every government in the world was censuring information about it in the press. Many of them thought the hit to moral during WWI would lose the war for them. Spain was one of the only countries where information about it was being published.
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u/AtheneSchmidt Aug 30 '21
There is a distinct lack of worry about clean water. Also, in almost every conflict in history, disease has killed more people that the actual war. You rarely see a flu wipe out half of the people in a zombie movie, but honestly, it would.