Yes, we all know what today is, and what it commemorates.

[conuly]

Let's not forget that right after the war ended, millions of people died in the Spanish Flu pandemic.

Now, I know some people's response to the vaccine shortages has been along the lines of "don't bother if you're not old, young, or sick", but I feel I should remind you that the people struck down with the Spanish Flu were usually not the old, young, or sick. They were usually healthy people in their... well, okay, maybe "young" covers it, but only in the sense that doesn't include childhood.

This has been a routine announcement. You may now go about your daily business.

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*shrug*

Nature decides to purge every so often, and there's little we can do one way or the other. World War I is worth remembering because we brought that one upon ourselves, didn't learn from it, and did it all again twenty years later.