How Deadly the Spanish Flu (1918 Pandemic) Was

# **Basic Information**

**How Deadly the Spanish Flu (1918 Pandemic) Was** is the thirty-eighth (38th) video of the Master Raney channel on YouTube. Master Raney discusses what happened during that pandemic from the past century and compares it with the Coronavirus (COVID-19 aka SARS-Cov-2) Pandemic.

# **Plot**

Prior to the video, a few clips and segments show from the previous video after Raney says "Previously on the Master Raney channel", then a Text-to-Speech voice reading aloud a comment written in the comment section of the video. The title of the video shows on screen in the black background, then Master Raney gets onto the subject, which he points out that the pandemic began during World War I in 1918, pointing out the mortality rate being high to children up to five years of age, adults in between ages 20 and 40, and elders at age 65+ according to CDC. Master Raney points out that the pandemic was caused by an H1N1 virus from birds. Master Raney mentions historian Alfred W Crosby's 2003 claim of the Spanish Flu originating from Kansas, John M. Barry describing Haskell County, KS as the origin of the Spanish Flu in 2004, and pointed out that biology professor, Michael Worobey in 2018, found evidence against the origin in Kansas, so Master Raney points out that it wasn't the "Kansas Flu" that infected a third of the world's population. Master Raney states that the Spanish Flu infected somewhere in between 500 million to 1 billion people worldwide and claimed the lives of 20 to 50 million people from January 1918 to December 1920. Master Raney points out the ratio of the population being a third of the world's population to be infected at the time because there were only 1.8 billion people on Earth at the time. As Master Raney points out how devastating the pandemic was, he points out that numerous adults were infirmed and that everyday life was hampered, some communities shutting down every store and having customers leave out orders, doctors couldn't take care of the sick, and gravediggers couldn't bury the dead because of the disease. Master Raney points out that during the pandemic, rates skyrocketed on physical disability, diminished salary and socioeconomic status, and less educational success. Master Raney states that the infected coughing or sneezing spread over half a million virus particles to people close to them. Master Raney shows the world map, which Master Raney explicitly shows that there were 390,000 deaths in Japan, 500,000 - 675,000 deaths in the United States, 300,000 deaths in Brazil, 902,400 - 2,431,000 deaths in Iran, 250,000 deaths in the United Kingdom, 400,000 deaths in France, 50,000 deaths in Canada, and 100,000 deaths in Ghana, placing red flags on each country and numbers indicating the death toll by the Spanish Flu in each country. As Master Raney concludes the video, he provides a link to people to learn more about the Spanish Flu and provides the link to the previous video if anyone hasn't seen it.

# **Trivia**

* During the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Raney Kleiner went onto research of other pandemics in history, which one of them included the worst-of-all Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918
* This video was intended to prove to the panickers of the COVID-19 pandemic that the Spanish Flu may have been worse

# **References**

1. The Video on YouTube
2. Information about the Spanish Flu