That was not my intent when posting the article. I did reply to ASTRALMAX's comment, though. It's very interesting that we might solve the mystery of this illness, which has possibly been around for many centuries in some form or other.

You all missed the point of this article. No one is scapegoating the Russians. It asks if the ‘Russian Flu’ was a Corona virus like the Current COVID-19 virus. Some preserved tissues infected from this old virus will be sequenced to see if there’s Corona virus DNA.

We are doing well compared to the 1918 - 1922 "Spanish Flu" ( viruses do not have nationality). In 1918 the world population was approximately 1.86 billion people on earth. It seems that nobody knows for certain the mortality rate but it has been estimated to be somewhere in the region of 50 - 500 million people.

The current world population is more than four times what it was in 1918 and the latest mortality figures for Sars-Cov-2 are 5,853,870.

Viruses have been around for a much longer period than human beings. They do not die because the are not alive in the first place. I think that they date back more than 300 million years.

We can save them. How nice.

Seems likely