The Most Consequential Illness in Modern History

The deadliest pandemic in recorded history didn't just kill 75 million people. It may have caused World War II.In the spring of 1919, Woodrow Wilson — the one man standing between a just peace and a punishing one — collapsed at Versailles. What happened next set off a chain: war guilt clause → impossible reparations → Weimar hyperinflation → a failed Austrian painter → 70 million dead in WWII.And almost nobody knows about it.In this video I break down:→ Why the Spanish Flu's origin story is a lesson in information suppression→ The W-shaped mortality curve and why the *healthiest* people died→ How Wilson's illness changed the peace terms at Versailles→ What Keynes saw in real time — and why no one listened→ The Roaring 20s, the Florida real estate bubble, and the Great Depression as post-pandemic aftershocks→ The investing principle buried inside all of itThis is Part II of The Great Plagues series. Part I covered the Black Death and how it accidentally created capitalism.📖 Book referenced: *The Great Influenza* by John Barry🔗 Subscribe to The Timeless Investor on Substack: https://thetimelessinvestor.substack.com/subscribeOriginal Full Article on The Black Death (first in The Plagues series):https://thetimelessinvestor.substack.com/p/how-the-black-death-created-our-world?r=d424hFollow me on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/arievangemeren/Follow me on X: https://x.com/TimelessArie