The 2020 Pandemic and The 1918 Pandemic
In virology, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (A/H1N1) is a subtype of Influenza A virus. Well known outbreaks of H1N1 strains in humans include the 2009 swine flu pandemic, as well as the 1918 flu pandemic...
Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and cause a small fraction of all influenza-like illness and a small fraction of all seasonal influenza, for instance in 2004–2005. Other strains of H1N1 are endemic in pigs (swine influenza) and in birds (avian influenza). Its size is 80 to 120 nm in diameter...(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1)
However, how the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic was generated is not yet fully understood. Some argue that the epicenter was a British military post in France in WWI; others claim that it started in State of Kansas, USA; or part of the rest stress that about 100,000 Chinese laborers mobilized by the UK and France in WWI brought the Spanish-flu viruses to Europe.
Interestingly 17 million people died in India due to the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic, which accounted for 40% of global deaths due to the pandemic. In WWI, India joined the UK in WWI as a British colony, sending Indian soldiers to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. When these Indian soldiers went back to India after WWI, India came to suffer the pandemic.
No matter where the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic was generated, it spread globally due to the massive movement of Chinese and Indians that had been promoted by development and intensification of the Industrial Revolution started in the UK before the start of the 19th century. The early modern and large-scale globalization of economy and culture in the early 20th century caused the global spread of the damage due to the pandemic. The main players must be the British Empire as well as then its colony India in addition to China under threat of the Western colonial powers.
Now in the early 21st century, as economic globalization has entered into a new phase with economic success of Japan after WWII, subsequent success of China after Japan, and following success of India now independent from the UK due to WWII, the possibility of global spread of a new pandemic has increased and it actually has come true. This time, the epicenter has been identified as Wuhan, China. China has been actively and ambitiously pursing economic and political hegemony in the world since the start of the 21st century sending, every year, millions or more of tourists, business men, students, etc. to the U.S., Europe, and Japan in addition to other developing countries. But, the U.S, and Western Europe are suffering far greater damage and infectious deaths of 400,000 or 40% of the global deaths (combined as of in the middle of October 2020) while China has reported only less than 5,000 deaths, which is dubious though, (Japan with less than 2,000 deaths).
So, the current corona-pandemic and the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic can be discussed and analyzed from the same point of view: the side effect of the globalization of economy and culture. The 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic occurred while the world was experiencing the first modern globalization with the UK at its center, and the 2020 corona-pandemic has been spreading while the world is experiencing the second modern globalization with the U.S. and China at its core.
But, in the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic, the number of related global deaths surpassed the total number of war deaths in WWI. This 2020 corona-pandemic might foretell the coming WWIII where biological weapons might be used although WWII ended with world's first nuclear weapons used by the U.S.
China, Islamic terrorists, Russian militarists, etc. that are against Western democracy and freedom might secretly launch WWIII with unseen viruses or other disease germs. In the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic, it is estimated that 500 million people were infected and the number of deaths was 50 million or more. If science made it possible to create more devastating biological weapons, damage would far surpass the level in the 1918 Spanish-flu pandemic.
In this context, how the U.S. and the world will suppress the spread of and damage from the current corona-pandemic is all the more important. It must lead to prevention of WWIII. As the Bible tells, WWIII must come at unexpected time in an unexpected manner, or its prelude might have already begun with the 2020 corona-viruses.
The Revelation or the Apocalypse must not be included in the Bible for any other reason than real warning to the mankind living 2,000 years after the crucifixion of Christ Jesus.
Luke 10 King James Version
10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.