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There's an old American tradition that we are the
most moral people on the face of the earth and therefore these
visitations from an angry god don't hit us, they hit somebody
else. Most epidemic diseases hit the poor
harder than they do the rich,
the elites; and so a lot of the elites wouldn't face up
to this. The way out of the excuse of not
facing up to this is by saying, "It won't hit us on the hill, it'll
hit those people down there, the immigrants in the lowlands."
This had been true about tuberculosis and a number
of the most prevalent diseases of the time, but influenza's very
very democratic.
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