How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference Highlight

Others supported Trump’s position by pointing out that one of the deadliest pandemics of the modern era is referred to as “the Spanish flu.” As an alibi, this holds no water. The name came into use not because the strain originated there but because Spain retained a free press during the First World War and reported the flu openly, when censorship was imposed elsewhere.