I am no longer on the Trump train but you did get several things wrong. The Spanish flu started over seas as early as 1916 some historians says, it became prevalent in France in 1917. Back then it wasn't like people just hopped on a plane and flew to America and that's why the delay factor in it becoming prevalent here in 1918. So yes it's completely within the realm of historic events and the fact the flu was transmitted primarily by soldiers coming and go from the war spread it around the world that historically it could be labeled the 1917 flu pandemic while simultaneously labeling it the 1918 flu pandemic in America because it didn't get here until then. As for calling out the severity the Spanish flu was worse in comparison to population size. For simplicity sakes lets say you have one hundred thousand people of which fifty thousand die of a flu outbreak. Then let's say you have one million people and fifty thousand of them die of a flu outbreak, then ask yourself which outbreak was worse. Five hundred thousand and one persons would have to die to make the second outbreak worse when taken in conjunction with the population count during both outbreaks.
Your denial we are not in some form of communism behaviors is also off. When a government takes control of what can and cannot be administered to individuals under threat of non payment if they don't do as told that's a form of communism. The government changed up the Emergency Response Act in 2017 to say that during a national emergency the government can take control of all the medical devices, medicines, equipment required to deal with that emergency. That's exactly what they did. They have control over everything right down to the sedative they give you while you lay there dying in the hospital from covid. Vendors are required to go through the government then the government instructs the companies where to send the orders. In the Cares Act and codified in the Hero's act is a provision that says that the government will not reimburse hospitals through the reimbursement of the uninsured through the funds set up for them in the act or that medicaid/medicare will not reimburse hospitals if they do not use the medicines authorized under emergency use, and they also gave insurers the right to refuse payment also. They got us in a stranglehold.