WWII Spanish Flu pandemic would have been a holocaustic Allied 'sin of omission'

In the middle of WWII, the Allies medical-scientific-industrial-governmental elite secretly and wildly gambled with the lives of the entire planet.

Fortunately for all of us, Mother Nature cut them an undeserving break and a dying doctor's protests finally brought them to their senses ---- but that still won't have removed the sin of willful omission from their conscience when they met their Maker.

Longfellow's Evangeline is a rare 'good news story' from a bad news war

No biographer has been able to definitely say why Longfellow named the heroine of his famous epic poem the then highly unusual name (at least in French or English) of "Evangeline" rather than the more conventional and common girl names he considered earlier.

The Expulsion of the Acadians was an all around decidedly bad affair and I argue (as I of course would !) that Longfellow was simply attempting to extract what little good, morally, he find in it --- as was his optimistic-in-even-the-face-of-sadness nature.

I believe that Longfellow felt he had found a tiny but morally good news story in the true account of an Acadian woman's post-Expulsion life-long journey of undying love and devotion, complete with a kind of 'happy' ending, as Evangeline reunites with her long-lost love Gabriel, moments before he dies in her arms.

Slightly adapting the original Greek/Latin biblical term for the 'good news' of Christ's eternal salvation into either Evangelin (for boys) or Evangeline (for girls) has long been a name decision made by many Christian parents in many cultures. Their impending little bundles of joy were considered by these happy parents to be very 'good news' indeed.

Perhaps in the end, the equally bible-literate Longfellow simply did the same with his literary 'baby' and since its protagonist was a woman, "Evangeline" it became...

"Spanish Flu returns, Allies & Alexander Fleming promises synthetic penicillin 'eventually', as millions needlessly die"

It is only through the grace of a merciful God and the tireless efforts of dying doctor Henry Dawson and his small band of believers, not the Allied leadership, that the world of WWII never saw the above headline.

With the increase of the world's population since 1918, combined with the hunger and cold weakened state of so many of them, a return of the Spanish Flu would have killed far more than even WWII's enormous total of direct and indirect deaths.

Far worse, morally these deaths would not be due to an accident of nature as in WWI, but rather to a willful decision of the Allied leadership : a holocaust of deaths caused by willful medical negligence.

If another Good News Story came out of WWII, I'd love to hear it

Dr Henry Dawson's inclusive & diversity-affirming vision of "Natural penicillin for All" resided in a moral (and scientific) universe miles above the descent into moral squalor that was WWII --- on all sides....