Whether History's Rhyming
#71 Was the crime wave during 1920-1933 alcohol prohibition amplified by the 1918 flu pandemic?
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Introduction
In Florida’s Shadow
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Rhythm Recovery
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Introduction
The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, after dropping in severity at the two-year-mark in 1920, plateaued and carried a longer tail of infections than revised 21st-century history textbook summaries have attested to.
And suppressing, due to insufficient time, whether hunches that sociological trends that pandemic preceded are echoing today in the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019, is a duty many of us carry. Like whether the flourishing of organized crime in the ye…
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