Dems were fear mongering back then too

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87057928/1919-02-20/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1918&index=17&rows=20&words=flu+Flu&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1919&proxtext=Flu&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Ha!! Check out this poem. [Highlight portion] I think your on to something OP!

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87065531/1918-12-28/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1918&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Flu+FLU&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=12&state=&date2=1919&proxtext=Flu&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=20

This is really interesting; "Quarantine is not necessary but every case should have a placard reading "Spanish flu". Also encouraged shutting everything down at the first sign of disease. But after poking around it looks like their may have been a fair amount of Covid nonsense with the Spanish flu. I also hold a theory that SARS was meant to be covid but for whatever reason they failed to get it off the ground.

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92066926/1918-10-09/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1910&index=17&rows=20&words=Flu+Spanish&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1920&proxtext=Spanish+flu&y=15&x=25&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=5

Dems were fear mongering back then too

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87057928/1919-02-20/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1918&index=17&rows=20&words=flu+Flu&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1919&proxtext=Flu&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Ha!! Check out this poem. [Highlight portion] I think your on to something OP!

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87065531/1918-12-28/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1918&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Flu+FLU&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=12&state=&date2=1919&proxtext=Flu&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=20

Dems were fear mongering back then too

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87057928/1919-02-20/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1918&index=17&rows=20&words=flu+Flu&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1919&proxtext=Flu&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1