Given the OP's reasons for deaths from the "1917 plague", was IT actually a plague or a pandemic? Or was it an earlier version of the same playbook tactic used for "Covid-19"?
You're probably right about OP's intent. I'm just irked by hearing "before the pandemic" in everyday discourse as if a pandemic actually occurred, and don't want to also start hearing "the plague" thrown into the mix.
Given the OP's reasons for deaths from the "1917 plague", was IT actually a plague or a pandemic? Or was it an earlier version of the same playbook tactic used for "Covid-19"?
Fair question. I wasn't around in 1917.
You're probably right about OP's intent. I'm just irked by hearing "before the pandemic" in everyday discourse as if a pandemic actually occurred, and don't want to also start hearing "the plague" thrown into the mix.