why?

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I wish I had the power to send him back to 1918. I would love to have the power to send him back to 1918.

For additional context: the Spanish flu spread like wildfire amongst American troops at the end of the war and they often brought it home and/or contracted it on their way home. I have come across so many historical burials of WW1 soldiers who died that way. Of the 105 million people living in the U.S., 20 million of them contracted the Spanish flu and it disproportionately killed and permanently disabled young people.

who could have possibly predicted that infectious diseases would spread rapidly in close quarters