I'd never thought to question the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic narrative until covid came along, but here we are...
It has never been scientifically proven that an influenza virus caused the masses of disease and death worldwide.
Furthermore, it is important to note that back in 1918, any illness of unknown origin was labelled as 'influenza' and the word 'virus' commonly referred to toxins or poisons.
The pandemic took place towards the end of WW1 and unfolded in three waves between spring 1918 and summer 1919.
The nations that were engaged in warfare maintained media blackouts to keep morale high, but neutral Spain was unrestricted and was the first to officially report the pandemic (as 'French flu'), which is how it came to be known as 'Spanish' flu.
While the origin of the pandemic remains unclear, there are claims that it began in a British Army post in France (1916), at barracks in Aldershot, England (1917), somewhere in China (end of 1917), New York (February 1918), and Fort Riley military base (March 1918).
What is interesting about Fort Riley is that in late 1917 there had been an outbreak of bacterial meningitis, which prompted an experimental vaccine trial, sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and led by Frederick L. Gates.
Initially only a small group of soldiers were inoculated with 3 doses each of anti-meningococcal serum. Some developed mild symptoms of meningitis but most did not.
It was only when Gates rolled the program out to a larger pool of servicemen that they started to drop like flies…
The same three-dose protocol was used: -
4,792 men received their first dose.
4,257 received their second dose.
3,702 completed the full series of three injections.
The 1,090 men who didn't complete the trials are unaccounted for; there is no mention of what happened to them. We can only wonder whether they became ill, died, or went forth into battle before completion of the study.
The world was at war and conditions in many countries were poor.
Soldiers travelled in cramped and filthy spaces on trains and ships, and lived in squalor in the trenches, camps, and battlefields; they would have been susceptible to malnourishment, stress, injury, and infection; add to that the recent injections of biochemical sludge and you have the perfect conditions for disease to fester and flourish.
As news spread of a devastating illness, demand for Gates' anti-meningococcal serum increased. England, Belgium, France and Italy took plentiful supplies, yet the masses continued to suffer and perish.
Was vaccine-induced illness mistaken for (or disguised as) the flu? Fact-checkers will tell you that meningococcal vaccines do not cause flu-like symptoms but there are plenty of easy-to-find reputable sources that disagree with them.
Influenza usually kills the vulnerable—the young and old, the weak and infirm—but the 'Spanish flu' took healthy people (mostly men aged 20-40) down in their droves. The symptoms may have been similar to flu but many illnesses present with symptoms that are similar to flu: meningitis and pneumonia being just two of them.
Medics could have easily been mistaken: fever, lethargy, joint pain, and shortness of breath are symptoms for many things. But those weren't the only symptoms; in fact, many symptoms were unlike flu... how many cases of flu have you known that cause people to bleed from their orifices and turn blue?
Which poses the question: was there more than one cause and more than one illness?
Another factor that has been largely ignored by mainstream mouthpieces is the impact of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of 'battle gases' on the global population.
Chlorine, mustard gas, and tear gas were used to a lesser extent along with the more potent, easy to manufacture phosgene because they were more easily detectable: did these weapons of war (and their noxious fumes) invade people's lungs and make them sick?
Phosgene gas combines with water vapour in the lungs to create hydrochloric acid, which causes tissue damage and lesions.
Battle gas exposure and Spanish flu share similar pathology -- from sneezing, wheezing, fatigue, aching joints, headaches, sinus pain, and runny nose in mild cases, to diarrhoea, gastro-intestinal bleeding, loss of hair and teeth, delirium, bleeding from eyes, ears, mouth and nose, endocarditis, pulmonary oedema, cyanosis, and death, in more severe cases.
There was a higher incidence of 'Spanish flu' at phosgene manufacturing plants yet a lower incidence among frontline medical staff, who you would think would be more at risk.
9,000 autopsies conducted at the time and reviewed by the National Institute of Health in 2008 showed conclusive evidence of bacterial pneumonia.
Was it a bacterial plague rather than a viral one?
Are pathogens even relevant here?
Could it have been a toxic, poison plague?
WHAT ROLE DID ASPIRIN PLAY?
Bayer's trademark for Aspirin expired in 1917.
This created a flurry of competition in the pharmaceutical industry.
Doctors prescribed Aspirin in large doses during the 'Spanish Flu' because it was heavily pushed on them by medical authorities. The amounts they prescribed would be considered toxic today, fatal even. Patients in 1918 were given 30 gram doses of Aspirin, whereas now you're advised not to exceed 4 grams per DAY.
Aspirin is a salicylate. Salicylate poisoning—that is, consumption of large doses—creates symptoms very similar to those of flu, pneumonia, and meningitis.
Could it be that 'The Spanish Flu' was a vaccine/toxin-induced illness, rather than the 'contagious virus' we've been led to believe all these years? It seems there is a stronger case for the former, which casts doubt on the official narrative.
But why? We can only speculate, but it seems a that a large-scale pandemic might have provided an excellent study for the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry, along with the huge profits it generated. A contagious virus was a far more palatable public explanation than poisonous battle gases, which, instead of initiating uproar, anti-war protests and civil unrest, had the opposite effect of the public turning to the medicine men and the state for a solution.
(c) Louize Small / One Little Warrior, September 2020.
(Revised November 2022)
A previous version of this article was published in issue 1 of The Light (September 2020) thelightpaper.co.uk .
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