CHINA CHINA CHINA

Nothing is ever new under the sun.

Wonder why POTUS keeps referencing 1917?

https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2020/02/coronavirus-warning-how-importing-chinese-laborers-led-to-most-deadly-disease-event-human-history.html

"As early as 1914, "public health officials feared that a global war might bring new diseases home to civilian populations."

In August, 1914, Canada's future Surgeon-General, Dr. Guy Carleton Jones, ominously wrote : "The trail of infected armies leaves a sad tale of sickness amongst the women and children and non-combatants." (P.56) According to The Canadian Encyclopedia, the Spanish flu (really the Chinese flu) killed about 40,000 Canadians.

The 1918 Flu started in China but it spread around the world because formerly-isolated, virus-carrying Chinese came into contact with Canadians, Americans, British, French, other Europeans and then Africans who had had little previous contact with one another.

The contact between the Chinese and other populations happened because the British/French allies in WW1 against Germany needed a large number of workers to do mostly non-combatant work (loading and unloading ships, etc,) behind the front lines of World War I. The British and the French negotiated with China to bring large numbers of Chinese to Europe. The workers were referred to as the "Chinese Labour Corps" When British authorities saw signs of health dangers, they could have reduced the inflow, but felt committed to the Chinese."

Link to Professor Humphries' research really worth the read:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26098366?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents