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       Re: Coronavirus / Spanish Flu
   DIR By: Winger14
       Date: May 9, 2020, 5:00 pm
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       Spanish Flu did not originate in Spain.  The first reported case
       was at a Military base in Kansas USA, on March 11th 1918.
       Albert Gitchell, a Army Cook, was Hospitalised with a
       temperature of 104.  The medics thought it was just a bad case
       of Flu, but it spread quickly thoughout the Camp, which was home
       to 54,000 troops.  Within a couple of Weeks 1,106 people had
       caught the Virus and 38 had died, after developing Pnuemonia.
       As US troops deployed en masse to Europe for the War effort,
       they carried the virus with them.  During April and May an
       estimated Three-quarters of the French military and Half of the
       British troops were infected.
       Over the next 18 months, about 40% of the Global Population were
       infected, and an estimate of between 30 to 50 million people
       perished.
       This comperes to the approx 17 million Soldiers and Civilians
       killed during the whole of the First World War ( 4 yrs )
       Wartime censors suppressed the news of the Flu to avoid
       affecting moral, but Spain was a nuetral country so their media
       was free to report on it, so by people who read these reports,
       it was assumed that it started in Spain. The Spanish believed
       that the virus was spread to them from France, so they called it
       The French Flu.
       In late Summer of 1918 a second, and worst, outbreak arrived in
       America, carried by their Soldiers returning home from Europe.
       The virus spread quickly and the population began to panic.
       Lacking a Vaccine, or even knowing the cause of the original
       outbreak, City Health Officials were at a loss has to what to
       do, so they were left to improvise.  Should the CLOSE ALL
       Schools and BAN ALL public gatherings,  should they require
       EVERY citizen to wear a GAUZE FACE MASK, or SHUT DOWN all
       Financial Centres.
       Certain US cities fared far worse than others, and looking back
       more than a Century later there's evidence that the earliest and
       most well organised responses slowed down the spread of the
       disease while cities that dragged their heels or let their guard
       down, paid a heavier price.  Those Soldiers 100 yrs ago would
       have been given numerous innoculations before travling to
       Europe, to prevent them from catching  A, B, C, D or E.  What
       was in those injections, I bet they didn't know.  What about our
       Armed Forces of today, how many injected drugs do they recieve
       before going abroad, especially to War Zones. I bet they don't
       know.  Maybe some of you ( ex Forces ) do know.  Forces
       personnel make excellent guinee pigs for trying out any new
       drug, it's in their nature not to complain, having been told
       that it's to prevent them from contacting A TO E.
       How many have adverse affects from these drugs, some quite bad.
       But again this will not be released unless some of them become
       Phychotic and it's leaked out to the public.
       Throughout the World Scientists are developing Deadly Virus's,
       just so they can work on finding an antidote, just in case it's
       needed. Now if one of those Virus's "Gets Out" before an
       antidote is developed, do they announce it to the World, do they
       *u*k.  They all put their heads together and decide to blame it
       on the Chickens or the Pigs or the Bats,  or simply say "Who'd
       have thought it, a completly new strain of Coronavirus has
       appeared from nowhere, but don't worry, we'll sort it out
       eventually, we may lose upto 5,000,000 people but thats just
       collateral damage.
       When a virus starts to develope in Nature, it takes years ( i've
       read that), but it can be grown in a Lab in Day's or Weeks.
       Scientists have still not discovered why the Spanish Flu strain
       of Virus was so lethal.  Will they be saying the same about
       Covid 19 in a 100 yrs from now.
       We, the general public, may never know where this Covid 19 virus
       originated from.  I'm still not convinced that it came from
       infected Bats sold at a Wet Fish Market.  The Chinese have
       opened up their cities now, have they closed all of their Wet
       Fish Markets ?,  I wouldn'd put my House on it.
       Two Facilities in the USA have been working with the one in
       Wuhan for years, studying Virus's and Bacteria's.  Trump hasn't
       mentioned this, but has stated that America has proof that this
       Virus HAS come out of the one in Wuhan.
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