Historical plagues and outbreaks, lethality varying, are often accompanied by political and military conflict as formerly suppressed interest groups took advantage of the situation to go balls out...
The peak of the Spanish flu in China also saw a sudden attempted coup by die hard royalist followers of a former Qing warlord named Yuan Shikai. Unlike other members of the Qing nobility, Yuan Shikai had been spared execution after the Revolution of 1911 and allowed to retire to his home to "grow old in grace", as the Chinese saying goes... However, he chose otherwise. Within a month, he and his followers had taken over Beijing and the surrounding areas and announced the restoration of the Qing Dynasty. Qing customs, uniforms, etiquette, and former titles of hereditary nobility were also restored........ Except the Republic government now in Nanjing, led by a newly elected young firebrand named Chiang Kai-Shek did not find any of this funny at all. Yuan Shikai and his group got their shit pushed in and Yuan gave himself a contact range head enema with his own Browning .380 ACP rather than be machine gunned outside in the streets like his followers...
If the media is attempting to stir up panic because Orange Man bad and they want to try to hurt him, they should be aware of the unintended consequences of contemporary American society being thrown into a panic... The media is already hated by a lot of people. So are leftists. So are envirofreaks. So are ANTIFA... People do not forget. In polite society, they just try to keep their hatred down low so they can continue to function. Do you really want the final bits of order and civility to break down? Think again. LOL...
