Wartime censorship is why it was known as Spanish Flu, which I have known for at least 40 years.
You're more likely to have a successful Google search if you don't restrict yourself to looking for things you just made up. For example --
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Anti-Mask League of San Francisco - Wikipedia
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As usual, you don't understand the point. There are no great poems about the 1919 pandemic, unlike WWI. There are no great novels. There are no great films (though there is an episode of Downton Abbey). There are no great works of art. In comparison to WWI, WWII, the Great Depression, the Roaring 20s and even Prohibition, it was not in the public consciousness (these article are a new phenomena resulting from corona). In the 1930s it was even less in the public consciousness than measles and/or polio, both of which were referenced in novels, films and even cartoons of the time (my older brother went through a phase when he was very little yelling out "measles, measles!" from a WB cartoon).
Wonder why? Wonder if this one will too? On the one hand, for example, movies and TV (which are set to be contemporaneous) like Cobra Kai are ignoring the pandemic and filming as if things were 2019 (though South Park did address it). On the other hand, it's gone on longer than the Spanish Flu and is linked in part to Trump.