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by Kevin Barry, President
\nFirst Freedoms, Inc.<\/p>\n
by Kevin Barry, President<\/a> The \u201cSpanish Flu\u201d killed an estimated 50-100 million people during a pandemic 1918-19. What if the story \u00a0we have been told about this pandemic isn\u2019t true?<\/p>\n What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin?<\/p>\n Newly analyzed documents reveal that the \u201cSpanish Flu\u201d may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.<\/p>\n In looking back on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, we need to delve deeper to solve this mystery.<\/p>\n During the pandemic of 1918-19, the so-called \u201cSpanish Flu\u201d killed 50-100 million people, including many soldiers.<\/p>\n Many people do not realize that disease killed far more soldiers on all sides than machine guns or mustard gas or anything else typically associated with WWI.<\/p>\n I have a personal connection to the Spanish Flu. \u00a0Among those killed by disease in 1918-19 are members of both of my parents\u2019 families.<\/p>\n On my father\u2019s side, his grandmother Sadie Hoyt died from pneumonia in 1918. Sadie was a Chief Yeoman in the Navy. \u00a0Her death left my grandmother Rosemary and her sister Anita to be raised by their aunt. Sadie\u2019s sister Marian also joined the Navy. \u00a0She died from \u201cthe influenza\u201d in 1919.<\/p>\n On my mother\u2019s side, two of her father\u2019s sisters died in childhood. All of the family members who died lived in New York City.<\/p>\n I suspect many American families, and many families worldwide, were impacted in similar ways by the mysterious Spanish Flu.<\/p>\n In 1918, \u201cinfluenza\u201d or flu was a catchall term for disease of unknown origin. \u00a0It didn\u2019t carry the specific meaning it does today.<\/p>\n It meant some mystery disease which dropped out of the sky. \u00a0In fact, influenza is from the Medieval Latin \u201cinfluential\u201d in an astrological sense, meaning a visitation under the influence of the stars.<\/p>\n Between 1900-1920, there were enormous efforts underway in the industrialized world to build a better society. \u00a0I will use New York as an example to discuss three major changes to society which occurred in NY during that time and their impact on mortality from infectious diseases.<\/p>\n In the late 19th century through the early 20th century, New York built an extraordinary system to bring clean water to the city from the Catskills, a system still in use today. \u00a0New York City also built over 6000 miles of sewer to take away and treat waste, which protects the drinking water. The World Health Organization acknowledges the importance of clean water and sanitation<\/a> in combating infectious diseases. (2)<\/p>\n In the late 19th century through the early 20th century, New York built a power grid and wired the city so power was available in every home. \u00a0Electricity allows for refrigeration. Refrigeration is an unsung hero as a public health benefit. When food is refrigerated from farm to table, the public is protected from potential infectious diseases. \u00a0Cheap renewable energy is important for many reasons, including combating infectious diseases.<\/p>\n In the late 19th century through the early 20th century, New York became the home of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University). \u00a0The Institute is where the modern pharmaceutical industry was born. The Institute pioneered many of the approaches the pharmaceutical industry uses today, including the preparation of vaccine serums, for better or worse. \u00a0The vaccine used in the Fort Riley experiment on soldiers was made in horses.<\/p>\n US Mortality Rates data from the turn of the 20th century to 1965 clearly indicates that clean water, flushing toilets, effective sewer systems and refrigerated foods all combined to effectively reduce mortality from infectious diseases BEFORE vaccines for those diseases became available.<\/p>\n Have doctors and the pharmaceutical manufacturers taken credit for reducing mortality from infectious disease which rightfully belongs to sandhogs, plumbers, electricians and engineers?<\/p>\n If hubris at the Rockefeller Institute in 1918 led to a pandemic disease which killed millions of people, what lessons can we learn and apply to 2018?<\/p>\n While watching an episode of American Experience on PBS a few months ago, \u00a0I was surprised to hear that the first cases of \u201cSpanish Flu\u201d occurred at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1918. \u00a0I thought, how is it possible this historically important event could be so badly misnamed 100 years ago and never corrected?<\/p>\n Why \u201cSpanish\u201d?<\/p>\n Spain was one of a few countries not involved in World War I. \u00a0Most of the countries involved in the war censored their press.<\/p>\n Free from censorship concerns, the earliest press reports of people dying from disease in large numbers came from Spain. \u00a0The warring countries did not want to additionally frighten the troops, so they were content to scapegoat Spain. Soldiers on all sides would be asked to cross no man\u2019s land into machine gun fire, which was frightening enough without knowing that the trenches were a disease breeding ground.<\/p>\n One hundred years later, it\u2019s long past time to drop \u201cSpanish\u201d from all discussion of this pandemic. \u00a0If the flu started at a United States military base in Kansas, then the disease could and should be more aptly named.<\/p>\n In order to prevent future disasters, the US (and the rest of the world) must take a hard look at what really caused the pandemic.<\/p>\n It is possible that one of the reasons the Spanish Flu has never been corrected is that it helps disguise the origin of the pandemic.<\/p>\n If the origin of the pandemic involved a vaccine experiment on US soldiers, then the US may prefer calling it Spanish Flu instead of The Fort Riley Bacteria of 1918, or something similar. \u00a0The Spanish Flu started at the location this experimental bacterial vaccine was given making it the prime suspect as the source of the bacterial infections which killed so many.<\/p>\n It would be much more difficult to maintain the marketing mantra of \u201cvaccines save lives\u201d if a vaccine experiment originating in the United States during the years of primitive manufacturing caused the deaths of \u00a050-100 million people.<\/p>\n \u201cVaccines save lives \u2026 except we may have killed 50-100 million people in 1918-19\u201d is a far less effective sales slogan than the overly simplistic \u201cvaccines save lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n During the mid-2000\u2019s there was much talk about \u201cpandemic preparedness.\u201d \u00a0Influenza vaccine manufacturers in the United States received billions of taxpayer dollars to develop vaccines to make sure that we don\u2019t have another lethal pandemic \u201cflu,\u201d like the one in 1918-19.<\/p>\n Capitalizing on the \u201cflu\u201d part of Spanish flu helped vaccine manufacturers procure billion dollar checks from governments, even though scientists knew at the time that bacterial pneumonia was the real killer.<\/p>\n It is not my opinion that bacterial pneumonia was the real killer \u2013 thousands of autopsies confirm this fact.<\/p>\n According to a 2008 National Institute of Health paper, bacterial pneumonia was the killer in a minimum of 92.7% of the 1918-19 autopsies reviewed. \u00a0It is likely higher than 92.7%.<\/p>\n The researchers looked at more than 9000 autopsies, and \u201cthere were no negative (bacterial) lung culture results.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026 In the 68 higher-quality autopsy series<\/a>, in which the possibility of unreported negative cultures could be excluded, 92.7% of autopsy lung cultures were positive for \u22651 bacterium. \u2026 in one study of approximately 9000 subjects who were followed from clinical presentation with influenza to resolution or autopsy, researchers obtained, with sterile technique, cultures of either pneumococci or streptococci from 164 of 167 lung tissue samples.<\/p>\n There were 89 pure cultures of pneumococci; 19 cultures from which only streptococci were recovered; 34 that yielded mixtures of pneumococci and\/or streptococci; 22 that yielded a mixture of pneumococci, streptococci, and other organisms (prominently pneumococci and nonhemolytic streptococci); and 3 that yielded nonhemolytic streptococci alone. There were no negative lung culture results.\u201d (3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Pneumococci or streptococci were found in \u201c164 of (the) 167 lung tissue samples\u201d autopsied. \u00a0That is 98.2%. Bacteria was the killer.<\/p>\n When the United States declared war in April 1917, the fledgling Pharmaceutical industry had something they had never had before \u2013 a large supply of human test subjects in the form of the US military\u2019s first draft.<\/p>\n Pre-war in 1917, the US Army was 286,000 men. Post-war in 1920, the US army disbanded, and had 296,000 men.<\/p>\n During the war years 1918-19, the US Army ballooned to 6,000,000 men, with 2,000,000 men being sent overseas. \u00a0The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research took advantage of this new pool of human guinea pigs to conduct vaccine experiments.<\/p>\n A REPORT ON ANTIMENINGITIS VACCINATION AND OBSERVATIONS ON AGGLUTININS IN THE BLOOD OF CHRONIC MENINGOCOCCUS CARRIERS<\/a> (Author note: \u00a0Please read the Fort Riley paper<\/a> in its entirety so you can appreciate the carelessness of the experiments conducted on these troops.)<\/p>\n Between January 21st and June 4th of 1918, Dr. Gates reports on an experiment where soldiers were given 3 doses of a bacterial meningitis vaccine. \u00a0Those conducting the experiment on the soldiers were just spitballing dosages of a vaccine serum made in horses.<\/p>\n The vaccination regime was designed to be 3 doses. \u00a04,792 men received the first dose, but only 4,257 got the 2nd dose (down 11%), and only 3702 received all three doses (down 22.7%).<\/p>\n A total of 1,090 men were not there for the 3rd dose. \u00a0What happened to these soldiers? Were they shipped East by train from Kansas to board a ship to Europe? \u00a0Were they in the Fort Riley hospital? Dr. Gates\u2019 report doesn\u2019t tell us.<\/p>\n An article accompanying the American Experience broadcast I watched sheds some light on where these 1,090 men might be. \u00a0Gates began his experiments in January 1918.<\/p>\n By March of that year, \u201c100 men a day\u201d were entering the infirmary at Fort Riley.<\/p>\n Are some of these the men missing from Dr. Gates\u2019 report \u2013 the ones who did not get the 2nd or 3rd dose?<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026 Shortly before breakfast on Monday, March 11, the first domino would fall signaling the commencement of the first wave of the 1918 influenza.<\/p>\n Company cook Albert Gitchell reported to the camp infirmary with complaints of a \u201cbad cold.\u201d<\/p>\n Right behind him came Corporal Lee W. Drake voicing similar complaints.<\/p>\n By noon, camp surgeon Edward R. Schreiner had over 100 sick men<\/a> on his hands, all apparently suffering from the same malady\u2026\u201d (5)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gates does report that several of the men in the experiment had flu-like symptoms: coughs, vomiting and diarrhea after receiving the vaccine.<\/p>\n These symptoms are a disaster for men living in barracks, travelling on trains to the Atlantic coast, sailing to Europe, and living and fighting in trenches.<\/p>\n The unsanitary conditions at each step of the journey are an ideal environment for a contagious disease like bacterial pneumonia to spread.<\/p>\n From Dr. Gates\u2019 report:<\/p>\n \u201cReactions.\u2013 \u2026 Several cases of looseness of the bowels or transient diarrhea were noted. This symptom had not been encountered before. Careful inquiry in individual cases often elicited the information that men who complained of the effects of vaccination\u00a0were suffering from mild coryza, bronchitis, etc., at the time of injection.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes the reaction was initiated by a chill or chilly sensation, and a number of men complained of fever or feverish sensations during the following night.<\/p>\n Next in frequency came nausea (occasionally vomiting), dizziness, and general \u201caches and pains\u201d in the joints and muscles, which in a few instances were especially localized in the neck or lumbar region, causing stiff neck or stiff back. A few injections were followed by diarrhea.<\/p>\n The reactions, therefore, occasionally simulated the onset of epidemic meningitis and several vaccinated men were sent as suspects to the Base Hospital for diagnosis.\u201d(4)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to Gates, they injected random dosages of an experimental bacterial meningitis vaccine into soldiers. Afterwards, some of the soldiers had symptoms which \u201csimulated\u201d meningitis, but Dr. Gates advances the fantastical claim that it wasn\u2019t actual meningitis.<\/p>\n The soldiers developed flu-like symptoms. \u00a0Bacterial meningitis, then and now, is known to mimic flu-like symptoms<\/a>. (6)<\/p>\n Perhaps the similarity of early symptoms of bacterial meningitis and bacterial pneumonia to symptoms of flu is why the vaccine experiments at Fort Riley have been able to escape scrutiny as a potential cause of the Spanish Flu for 100 years and counting.<\/p>\n There is an element of a perfect storm in how the Gates bacteria spread. \u00a0WWI ended only 10 months after the first injections. Unfortunately for the 50-100 million who died, those soldiers injected with horse-infused bacteria moved quickly during those 10 months.<\/p>\n An article from 2008 on the CDC\u2019s website describes how sick WWI soldiers could pass along the bacteria to others by becoming \u201ccloud adults.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFinally, for brief periods and to varying degrees, affected hosts became \u201ccloud adults\u201d<\/a> who increased the aerosolization of colonizing strains of bacteria, particularly pneumococci, hemolytic streptococci, H. influenzae, and S. aureus.<\/p>\n For several days during local epidemics\u2014particularly in crowded settings such as hospital wards, military camps, troop ships, and mines (and trenches)\u2014some persons were immunologically susceptible to, infected with, or recovering from infections with influenza virus.<\/p>\n Persons with active infections were aerosolizing the bacteria that colonized their noses and throats, while others\u2014often, in the same \u201cbreathing spaces\u201d\u2014were profoundly susceptible to invasion of and rapid spread through their lungs by their own or others\u2019 colonizing bacteria.\u201d (1)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Three times in his report on the Fort Riley vaccine experiment, Dr. Gates states that some soldiers had a \u201csevere reaction\u201d indicating \u201can unusual individual susceptibility to the vaccine\u201d.<\/p>\n While the vaccine made many sick, it only killed those who were susceptible to it. \u00a0Those who became sick and survived became \u201ccloud adults\u201d who spread the bacteria to others, which created more cloud adults, spreading to others where it killed the susceptible, repeating the cycle until there were no longer wartime unsanitary conditions, and there were no longer millions of soldiers to experiment on.<\/p>\n The toll on US troops was enormous and it is well documented. \u00a0Dr. Carol Byerly describes how the \u201cinfluenza\u201d traveled like wildfire through the US military. \u00a0(substitute \u201cbacteria\u201d for Dr. Byerly\u2019s \u201cinfluenza\u201d or \u201cvirus\u201d):<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026 Fourteen of the largest training camps <\/a>had reported influenza outbreaks in March, April, or May, and some of the infected troops carried the virus with them aboard ships to France \u2026<\/p>\n As soldiers in the trenches became sick, the military evacuated them from the front lines and replaced them with healthy men.<\/p>\n This process continuously brought the virus into contact with new hosts\u2014young, healthy soldiers in which it could adapt, reproduce, and become extremely virulent without danger of burning out.<\/p>\n \u2026 Before any travel ban could be imposed, a contingent of replacement troops departed Camp Devens (outside of Boston) for Camp Upton, Long Island, the Army\u2019s debarkation point for France, and took influenza with them.<\/p>\n Medical officers at Upton said it arrived \u201cabruptly\u201d on September 13, 1918, with 38 hospital admissions, followed by 86 the next day, and 193 the next.<\/p>\n Hospital admissions peaked on October 4 with 483, and within 40 days, Camp Upton sent 6,131 men to the hospital for influenza. Some developed pneumonia so quickly that physicians diagnosed it simply by observing the patient rather than listening to the lungs\u2026\u201d (7)<\/p>\n The United States was not the only country in possession of the Rockefeller Institute\u2019s \u00a0experimental bacterial vaccine.<\/p>\n A 1919 report from the Institute states: \u201cReference should be made that before the United States entered the war (in April 1917) the Institute had resumed the preparation of antimeningococcic serum, in order to meet the requests of England, France, Belgium Italy and other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n The same report states: \u00a0\u201cIn order to meet the suddenly increased demand for the curative serums worked out at the Institute, a special stable for horses was quickly erected \u2026\u201d (8)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n An experimental antimeningoccic serum made in horses and injected into soldiers who would be entering the cramped and unsanitary living conditions of war \u2026 what could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n Is the bacterial serum made in horses at the Rockefeller Institute which was injected into US soldiers and distributed to numerous other countries responsible for the 50-100 million people killed by bacterial lung infections in 1918-19?<\/p>\n The Institute says it distributed the bacterial serum to England, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries during WWI. Not enough is known about how these countries experimented on their soldiers.<\/p>\n I hope independent researchers will take an honest look at these questions.<\/p>\n I do not believe that anyone involved in these vaccine experiments was trying to harm anyone.<\/p>\n Some will see the name Rockefeller and yell. \u201cIlluminati!\u201d or \u201cculling the herd!\u201d<\/p>\n I do not believe that\u2019s what happened.<\/p>\n I believe standard medical hubris is responsible \u2013 doctors \u201cplaying God\u201d, thinking they can tame nature without creating unanticipated problems.<\/p>\n With medical hubris, I do not think the situation has changed materially over the past 100 years.<\/p>\n The vaccine industry is always looking for human test subjects. \u00a0They have the most success when they are able to find populations who not in a position to refuse.<\/p>\n Soldiers<\/a> (9), infants, the disabled, prisoners, those in developing nations \u2013 anyone not in a position to refuse.<\/p>\n Vaccine experimentation on vulnerable populations is not an issue of the past. \u00a0Watch this video clip of Dr. Stanley Plotkin where he describes using experimental vaccines on orphans, the mentally retarded, prisoners, and those under colonial rule.<\/p>\n The deposition was in January 2018. The hubris of the medical community is the same or worse now than it was 100 years ago.<\/p>\n Watch as Dr. Plotkin admits to writing:<\/p>\n \u201cThe question is whether we are to have experiments performed on fully functioning adults and on children who are potentially contributors to society or to perform initial studies in children and adults who are human in form but not in social potential.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Please watch the horrifying video clip.<\/a> \u00a0(10)<\/p>\n
\nFirst Freedoms, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\nSummary<\/h2>\n
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WHY IS WHAT HAPPENED 100 YEARS AGO IMPORTANT NOW?<\/h2>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clean Water and Sanitation<\/h3>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Electricity<\/h3>\n
3. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pharmaceutical<\/h3>\n
THE DISEASE WAS NOT SPANISH<\/h2>\n
THE DISEASE WHICH KILLED SO MANY WAS NOT FLU OR A VIRUS. \u00a0IT WAS BACTERIAL.<\/h2>\n
WHERE DID THE SPANISH FLU BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA OF 1918-19 ORIGINATE?<\/h2>\n
\nby Frederick L. Gates<\/a>
\nFrom the Base Hospital, Fort Riley, Kansas, and The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York.<\/a>
\n Received 1918 Jul 20<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/vaccineimpact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/andrew_moulden_every_vaccine_produces_harm_ebook2.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nHOW DID THE \u201cSPANISH FLU\u201d SPREAD SO WIDELY SO QUICKLY?<\/h2>\n
THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS<\/h2>\n
WHAT NOW?<\/h2>\n