Spanish Flu & COVID19 -- A pro-vax-friendly comparison
This is a continuation of my last paper on Spanish Flu vaccines.
A Spanish Flu vaccine line? (Public Domain)
The year was 1918. A terrified public, warned about an exceptionally deadly flu, was frantic for a cure. Government health authorities assured people help was on the way. The medical industry moved with unprecedented speed to develop experimental vaccines to fight the dreaded bacteria Pfeiffer’s Bacillus. Millions of vaccines were administered to all ages. It was Spanish Flu, the deadliest pandemic in recent history.
Fast-forward a century. The world has experienced dramatic technological and scientific advancement, from rudimentary pen-and-paper, telephones and automobiles, to high-speed computers and internet, jet aircraft and nanotechnology.
The year was 2020. A terrified public, warned about an exceptionally deadly flu, was frantic for a cure. Government health authorities assured people help was on the way. The medical industry moved with unprecedented speed to develop experimental vaccines to fight the dreaded virus SARS-CoV-2. Millions of vaccines were administered to all ages. It’s COVID19, the deadliest pandemic in modern times.
A COVID19 vaccine line. (Dallasnews.com)
As you can probably see already, Spanish Flu wasn’t like COVID19 at all. Spanish Flu happened in the old days of magical thinking, when people lined up for vaccines to protect them from a bacteria, because they were told it was the right thing to do. COVID19 happened in the modern days of reason and science, when people lined up for vaccines to protect them from a virus, because they were told it was the right thing to do.
The many differences between Spanish Flu and COVID19
Here are the Top 3 obvious differences between these 2 pandemics:
One: In 1918, medical science said Spanish Flu was caused by a bacteria called Pfeiffer’s Bacillus; in 2020, medical science said COVID19 was caused by a virus called SARS-CoV-2.
These different theories of causation resulted in radically different approaches to treatment: for Spanish Flu, experimental vaccines; for COVID19, more experimental vaccines. In either case, the public just wanted vaccines, and didn’t really care about the details.
Two: Public health agencies and the media talk about COVID19 vaccines all the time—but they never talk about Spanish Flu vaccines.
Pied Piper by James Elder Christie (Public Domain)
In fact, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Reuter’s, the National Archives, the History Channel and more, all claim Spanish Flu vaccines didn’t even exist. Yet, medical journals confirm they not only existed, but that millions were administered across the U.S. (1)
Most likely, the silence about Spanish Flu vaccines is because they were so miraculous, the industry didn’t want to brag. There’s no telling how many might have died, if not for the vaccines the CDC is too modest to mention.
Maybe, a hundred years from now, no one will talk about the COVID19 vaccines either, because they worked as well as the Spanish Flu vaccines.
Three: With Spanish Flu, medical researchers tried hard, but failed, to prove the flu was contagious person-to-person. Today, with COVID19, researchers no longer try to prove contagion—they just assume it. This policy change was a relief to followers of virus theory, who were already having a hard time explaining why no one had ever captured a whole one.
“Under the auspices of the U.S. Public Health Service and the Navy, Rosenau and his colleagues, in an effort to ‘determine the mode of spread of influenza,’ tried to infect military volunteers with Pfeiffer’s bacillus at a makeshift infirmary on Gallops Island in Boston Harbor. […] Rosenau noted that the team ‘proceeded rather cautiously at first by administering a pure culture’ of the bacterium. 'When the ‘trials proved negative,’ he wrote, ‘we became bolder.’ The scientists gave each of the volunteers ‘a very large quantity of a mixture of thirteen different strains of the Pfeiffer bacillus, some of them obtained recently from the lungs at necropsy.’ They also inoculated the men with specimens taken from the throats and noses of influenza patients and later with the patients’ blood. Still no symptoms, so next the volunteers shook hands with, talked with, and were coughed on by the actively ill. They remained healthy.” (2)
Conclusion
Historical mortality data shows a huge increase in deaths attributed to flu and pneumonia in 1918.
Deaths from common diseases including influenza from 1900-1965. (SOURCE)
A high-resolution image of particles of SARS-CoV-2 virus! (Centers for Disease Control)
Both Spanish Flu and COVID19 involved warnings of impending doom, experimental vaccines and mass vaccination. But in one, the invisible enemy was said to be a bacteria, and in the other, a virus—an organism so elusive that to this day, a whole one has never been seen—only particles.
The COVID19 vaccination campaign is still ongoing, but there are encouraging signs it’s working as well as the Spanish Flu vaccination campaign that the medical industry and CDC are too modest to talk about. If this trend of success continues, a hundred years from now, we may never hear about the COVID19 vaccines either.
Electron microscope image of an unknown entity believed to be Anthony Fauci without his human suit. (acidcow.com)
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NOTES:
(1) Eyler J. M. (2010). The state of science, microbiology, and vaccines circa 1918. Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974), 125 Suppl 3(Suppl 3), 27–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549101250S306 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00333549101250S306
(2) In the Grip of a Disease: During the 1918 influenza pandemic, HMS students, faculty, and alumni stepped in to care for the afflicted and research the cause, by Elizabeth Gehrman, Harvard Medicine.