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President Gerald Ford c. 1976 (public domain)

In 1976, President Gerald Ford delivered an ominous warning: the new Swine flu was caused by the same virus that killed millions during the Spanish flu of 1918. But Swine flu never really took off as a pandemic, quietly disappearing after a short-lived and disastrous vaccine campaign. More on this later.

The resemblances between Spanish flu and COVID19 are uncanny: a sudden announcement of impending doom from an invisible enemy; restrictions on public gatherings; school and church closures; masking requirements; and, most of all, vaccines—lots and lots of vaccines.

"It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment. [...] The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakeable conviction that snow is black."
— Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society (1952)

A 2010 paper by J.M. Eyler (1), published in the journal of the Office of the US Surgeon General and the US Public Health Service, described many different vaccines developed to prevent and cure Spanish flu. These vaccines were based on the now-discredited theory that a bacteria called Pfeiffer’s Bacillus caused the flu. They were administered to millions, including military, employees of large corporations, and residents of state institutions. Medical journals published glowing reviews of the vaccines, regardless of their composition.

But in the creepy cartoon reality of 2022, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the official US health authority, claims Spanish flu vaccines didn’t exist.

Almost everyone else in government, medicine and media backs up the CDC, either with lies, silence about the lies, or misplaced trust in the CDC’s lies. The few sources that acknowledge the existence of Spanish flu vaccines (other than the Eyler paper) make it sound like they played a minor role as accidental miracles.

FALSE CLAIM: Spanish flu vaccines didn’t exist

According to the CDC:

“With no vaccine to protect against influenza infection and no antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections that can be associated with influenza infections, control efforts worldwide were limited to non-pharmaceutical interventions…”

Also from the CDC:

“Influenza vaccines did not exist at the time, and even antibiotics had not been developed yet. […] doctors were left with few treatment options other than supportive care.”

Reuter’s and the rest of the major media simply parrot whatever the CDC says—it’s the ‘professional standard’ for mainstream reporters these days—as in this article fittingly published on April Fools’ Day, 2020:

“The claim that the influenza pandemic of 1918 ‘was the after-effect of the massive nation-wide vaccine campaign’ is unfounded. A vaccine against the flu did not exist at the time.”

The National Archives says there were no Spanish flu vaccines:

“In the United States, a quarter of the population caught the virus, 675,000 died, and life expectancy dropped by 12 years. With no vaccine to protect against the virus, people were urged to isolate, quarantine, practice good personal hygiene, and limit social interaction.”

And the History Channel says there were no “effective” vaccines:

“The 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world. At the time, there were no effective drugs or vaccines to treat this killer flu strain.”

FANTASY CLAIM: Spanish flu vaccines were accidental miracles

There are a few sources that acknowledge the existence of Spanish flu vaccines, such as this article on HistoryLink.org, which Wikipedia references. They convey the impression that the role of vaccines was minor, but they saved lives—even though the developers based them on a theory of flu causation that has since been discredited:

“Given the belief that flu was a bacterial disease, it was thought by some that vaccines against specific bacterial strains could be useful. In fact they were, but for the wrong reasons.

“In late September and early October of 1918, a total of 4,212 U.S. Navy personnel dispersed among six camps in Seattle and Bremerton received a vaccine developed by navy doctors and a U.S. Public Health Service doctor, made from killed cultures of the streptococcus bacteria. It did nothing to prevent influenza infections (considerably more of those vaccinated came down with the flu than those who were not), but not a single person from the vaccinated group died, while 96 of the unvaccinated did. This was no doubt due to the vaccine preventing (or at least weakening) secondary bacterial infections…”

Where else but vaccinology can a product developer have no idea what they’re doing, but still wind up with a great product?

I’ve coined a term for this amazing phenomenon: Accidental Vaccine Miracle, or “AVM.” Don’t confuse this with the Prescience Effect, or “PE”—another term I coined, in which a vaccine is so miraculous, it actually starts saving lives years before it’s even invented—like the measles vaccine. The universe is truly filled with vaccine mystery.

The crash of the 1976 Swine flu vaccine program

In this 15-minute vintage 60 Minutes report on the 1976 Swine flu fraud, President Gerald Ford tells us the virus is the same one that killed 20 million people worldwide during the Spanish flu pandemic, and half a million in the US. The flu turned out to be a dud, but the vaccine Ford promoted destroyed many lives.

(This version on Rumble has higher-quality audio and video.)

This 12-minute video has excerpts from the 60-Minutes story, along with some interesting vintage commercials for the Swine flu vaccine.

The Spanish flu death toll has increased considerably since Gerald Ford’s days as a vaccine shill, from 20 million to 50-100 million deaths worldwide, and from half a million to 675,000 in the US. Apparently, the old numbers weren’t scary enough for the brave new world of 21st century microbial terror.

Just a couple weeks after the Swine flu vaccine campaign began, it “ground to a halt from coast-to-coast,” according to this October 13 Detroit news report, after 12 deaths were reported among the elderly, most within hours of the shot. The concerns didn’t faze President Ford, who said, “people should continue [to get vaccinated]. I’m going to do it as quickly as I possibly can myself, and our family will, because we’re convinced that it’s in the best interest of all of our citizens.” Meanwhile, the CDC predictably claimed there was “no evidence yet” that the vaccines had anything to do with the deaths.

Thirty years later in 2009, with a brand-new Swine flu pandemic and vaccine looming, master vaccine salesman Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg dismissed concerns about the 1976 vaccine, claiming that although the vaccine campaign was quickly halted, it was because the Swine flu pandemic was a dud, not because the vaccines were dangerous:

“If you immunize very large numbers of elderly people, inevitably some will have a heart attack the next day, so you have to prepare the public for such coincidences. In one city, a few elderly people died of heart attacks soon after being vaccinated and immunizations were temporarily suspended. By the end, there were dozens of cases of Guillain–Barré syndrome. That wouldn’t have been a blip on the screen had there been a pandemic but, in the absence of any swine flu disease, these rare events were sufficient to end the programme.”

– Dr. Harvey Fineberg, Swine flu of 1976: lessons from the past, World Health Organization, 2009.

The CDC didn’t bother to “prepare the public for such coincidences” as the massive increase in deaths and serious injuries reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from the COVID19 vaccines. How do the numbers from these 2 situations compare?

Injuries reported from Swine flu vaccines compared to COVID19 vaccines

This chart shows a rough comparison of risk based on the numbers from the 60-Minutes story (4000 compensation claims from 46 million vaccines) and the most recent COVID19 vaccine numbers from the CVax Risk page (73,623 serious events reported to VAERS from 553 million vaccines).

In 1976, 12 reports of death soon after the Swine flu shot was all it took to trigger a nationwide halt to the vaccine campaign.

In 2021, dozens of deaths occurring the same day as COVID19 vaccination in the early days of the campaign didn’t even raise an eyebrow in the press, much less stop the campaign. What’s more, these reports were only a “small fraction” of vaccine injuries that actually occurred (3).

Here are the results of a VAERS search for deaths reported from covid shots in the US in the first 6 weeks of the vaccine campaign (which began December 14, 2020), sorted by how long after the vaccine the death occurred. In December, 8 deaths were reported on the day of vaccination, and 2 the day after; in January, 99 deaths were reported on the day of vaccination, and 99 more deaths the day after. (2)

Incredibly, more than twice as many deaths have been reported to VAERS from the COVID19 vaccines in the last 15 months than from all other vaccines combined for the last 31 years. The massive increase in deaths and serious injuries reported to VAERS is so far out of the realm of reasonable expectations, the most common initial reaction to learning the numbers, in my experience, is stunned disbelief.

Conclusions

It’s commonsense to wonder whether millions of Spanish flu vaccines, all based on a now-discredited theory about what caused the flu, may have increased the death toll—maybe by a lot. Maybe the vaccines were the death toll, and that’s why the CDC brazenly lies, and claims Spanish flu vaccines didn’t exist.

I’ve written about the probability that many COVID19 vaccine deaths are being ‘accounted for’ by including them in the official tally of “Death Involving COVID19,” and Spanish flu vaccine deaths could have been ‘accounted for’ in the same way.

A hundred years from now, if (God forbid) the CDC still exists, what will they be saying about COVID19 vaccines? The only thing I know for sure is, they’ll be lying—it’s the nature of the beast.

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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) VAERS search:

(3) Only a “small fractions” of vaccine injuries are reported to VAERS, according to the VAERS website, which is jointly managed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Spanish flu, Swine flu, COVID19 and perpetual vaccine lies