There was actually a good reason why China had been feverishly building hospitals and sewage infrastructure where ever they went in the downtime world. That's just the way things were, in 1915-16, when modern antibiotics and vaccines were unknown – well, until China had been ISOT. It was just under reported due the slow communications as such, that nobody really noticed – people got the flu, fell sick, and if a few died from the complications.move on, move on, nothing to see, just life as normal. Kansas was located slap bang right in the middle of the US, and the precursor strain of flu that would be labelled 'Spanish Flu' in the OTL1918, was already running around the United States. Burleson to the office of Postmaster General, that it's inefficiencies under 'white prejudices' became slow and erratic – never mind news taking weeks to travel from one side of the country to the other, it now took months. The problem with communications in 1916 in the US, was that the Wilson political establishment had pretty much sabotaged the US postal network with the appointment of Albert S. That changed, when US troop movements to the west coast brought a another virulent strain from Kansas.Ī cough, a sneeze, and a virus combined with an material from an Uptime strain.and mutated.Īnd suddenly, Downtimers on the western seaboard were falling over like flies too.and it spread.inexorably. That the Uptimer transplants had suffered so greatly, was just perceived by the local God Fearing Americans as being of bad stock, and just deserts as ordained by God. It was believed by the primitive knowledge of the Downtimer American medical practitioners, the particularly nasty strain of flu brought by the newcomers had burned itself out with the effects 'contained' to the slack wastrels whom claimed to be Americans from the future, not real honest Americans like good god fearing folk whose more robust Downtimer constitution hadn't suffered as greatly. It can be argued that the Chinese weren't being callous in marooning the Uptime Americans back in their homeland, as the Downtime Americans also quickly got fed up with the newcomers, that it was readily agreed that the Chinese had good cause to reject the pains in the ass whom incessantly complained about anything and everything about how much 'their' fantasy America was better.īut, despite the large number of deaths amongst the Uptimers, it wasn't reported as a pandemic amongst the largely fed up locals, whose medical knowledge was at best 'rudimentary' by modern 21st century standards. as malnutrition and exposure set in with the sickness on the American west coast. It started when the Uptime Americans had been dumped on the west coast of the United States in the aftermath of China's ISOT from 2015.Ī cough, a sneeze, and then the Uptimers were dropping over like flies from a terrible flu over the course of several months.
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