The image read, “The most severe pandemic in history was the Spanish Flu of 1918. Knowing about the Spanish flu is very different from having to live through a similar pandemic. These visitors would have known about the dangers of this behaviour, some of them may have read about the Spanish flu. But governments of most countries failed to learn from the Spanish flu because they failed to understand and predict human behaviour. While vaccines weren’t available during the Spanish flu, we have the benefit of curbing COVID-19 by vaccinating people now.

Source: The Hindu May 17, 2021 18:45 UTC