Calling it "Spanish Flu" is like calling oxygen phlogiston or saying that you get scorpions when you leave a few leaves of basil between two bricks. it's a coll

Calling it "Spanish Flu" is like calling oxygen phlogiston or saying that you get scorpions when you leave a few leaves of basil between two bricks. it's a colloquial name that results in confusion down the line. call things technical, scientific names so that you can trace back a historical line of thought. or don't and pick the opposite groupthink to cancel culture and keep the whole thing plowing along