1. Fleury and Barry both argue that many of the methods used to contain or control the spread of the disease, measures such as quarantining, mask-wearing, or canceling large public events, did not seem to have worked. On the other hand, our experiences during the current pandemic seem to suggest that some of these actions actually do have an effect. How might these discrepancies be explained?

2. The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and 1919, as most of these sources argue, killed between 50 and 100 million people in about a year's time. According to Bruce Fleury, it was the deadliest disease in human history. How, according to Fleury, did the disease affect the trajectory and outcome of the war and subsequent historical events? Why was it so deadly, according to these authors/scholars? What failures or problems led to its rapid spread? Whom did it strike, and among which populations was it most lethal? What explanations did medical experts come up with at the time to explain its origins? What do we know now about its likely origins?