It can come to show that me going to 4 universities may not be a waste of time- After seeing CNN's Special Report- Pandemic: How a Virus Changed the World in 1918, I have discovered a lot of things not covered about the Spanish flu in the classes I took. I was a bio major, and I could not understand that COVID was covered very lightly. Chabot College, Universities of Wisconsin-Madison, Kentucky and San Jose State did not cover it! It has been touched very lightly in Hayward High School as Woodrow Wilson possibly caught it and was the stemming of the rise of the Nazis, but if he were healthy, then World War 2 wouldn't have came to fruition.
Ugh, what we are doing now is a repeat of what is going on back in 1918. I will bet that whoever has been protesting against the masks back then are descendants of those who are protesting them now. We can't let germs really change history nor affect the future of the world. Though it is good that pollution has dipped a good 15% now that many places are putting in stay-at-home restrictions, the tough reality is that we can't really progress either. It is a double-edged sword though, as environmentalists can have ways to make factories, cars and even farming be less polluting. Is it that our ignorance and downplay of the Spanish flu in the past and more emphasis on winning the war and setting a treaty in ending it be at all good in some way? One can say ignorance is bliss-well, blissful for nature as there is less activity, but controversially, some deaths in the world to make nature have some chance to get better.
Teachers have some limitations to teaching, and it would be on our own after we're educated to see what is important to our lives. Humans will learn better if something drastic were to occur, and since COVID is here, I would say that we could blame some historians and publishers for not including microbiological events that would change history. It is all about human-human relations in history they stress, but they should also include something from biology as well-certainly, deaths in a war are not just from killing and injury, but also illness-even if one is whole.
I can give blame to the places of higher education that they were not focusing on germ warfare enough-whether or not one will go to STEM or be a historian, one will have to learn a bit of biological history as well that has gone through the years-it is not just The Black Death (bubonic plague) we have to learn, it is the Spanish flu pandemic we should also see. Now, many years from now, there will be another pandemic, and it should be clear that in humankind when there are 3 instances of pandemic, scientists, medicine personnel, historians, anthropologists, psychiatrists and sociologists should look in these events deeply so that they should be ready to act and have everyone get ready to handle another pandemic and treat it seriously so that the health and the country's(ies') economies will not suffer.
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