Elvis Was King, Ike Was President, and 116,000 Americans Died in a Pandemic

Guest Post by Jeffrey A. Tucker

The year was 1957.

Elvis’s new movie “Jailhouse Rock” was packing the theaters. The last episode of “I Love Lucy” aired on television. The show “West Side Story” held tryouts in Washington, D.C., and opened on Broadway in September. Ford’s new car the Edsel rolled off the assembly line. The Cold War with Russia was on and “In God We Trust” appeared on U.S. currency. The first Toys R Us store opened.

Also that year, the so-called Asian Flu killed 116,000 Americans. Here is the full summary from the Centers for Disease Control:

In February 1957, a new influenza A (H2N2) virus emerged in East Asia, triggering a pandemic (“Asian Flu”). This H2N2 virus was comprised of three different genes from an H2N2 virus that originated from an avian influenza A virus, including the H2 hemagglutinin and the N2 neuraminidase genes. It was first reported in Singapore in February 1957, Hong Kong in April 1957, and in coastal cities in the United States in summer 1957. The estimated number of deaths was 1.1 million worldwide and 116,000 in the United States.

Like the current pandemic, there was a demographic pattern to the deaths. It hit the elderly population with heart and lung disease. In a frightening twist, the virus could also be fatal for pregnant women. The infection rate was probably even higher than the Spanish flu of 1918 (675,000 Americans died from this), but this lowered the overall case fatality rate to 0.67%. A vaccine became available in late 1957 but was not widely distributed.

The population of the U.S. at the time was 172 million, which is a little more than half of the current population. Life expectancy was 69 as versus 78 today. Even with shorter lives, it was a healthier population with lower rates of obesity. To extrapolate the data to a counterfactual, we can conclude that this virus was more wicked than COVID-19 thus far.

What’s remarkable when we look back at this year, nothing was shut down. Restaurants, schools, theaters, sporting events, travel – everything continued without interruption. Without a 24-hour news cycle with thousands of news agencies and a billion websites hungry for traffic, mostly people paid no attention other than to keep basic hygiene. It was covered in the press as a medical problem. The notion that there was a political solution never occurred to anyone.

Again, this was a very serious flu, and it persisted for 10 years until it mutated to become the Hong Kong flu of 1968.

The New York Times had some but not much coverage. On September 18, 1957, an editorial counseled: “Let us all keep a cool head about Asian influenza as the statistics on the spread and the virulence of the disease begin to accumulate. For one thing, let us be sure that the 1957 type of A influenza virus is innocuous, as early returns show, and that antibiotics can indeed control the complications that may develop.”

The mystery of why today vast numbers of governments around the world (but not all) have crushed economies, locked people under house arrest, wrecked business, spread despair, disregarded basic freedoms and rights will require years if not decades to sort out. Is it the news cycle that is creating mass hysteria? Political ambition and arrogance? A decline in philosophical regard for freedom as the best system for dealing with crises? Most likely, the ultimate answer will look roughly like what historians say about the Great War (WWI): it was a perfect storm that created a calamity that no one intended at the outset.

For staying calm and treating the terrible Asian flu of 1957 as a medical problem to address with medical intelligence, rather than as an excuse to unleash Medieval-style brutality, this first postwar generation deserves our respect and admiration.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
May 5, 2020 12:25 pm

Remember America was still in a relaxed state 12 years after WW2 and the president was the former supreme allied commanding general during the war . A man not prone to panic . Also the wussification and feminization Of men in America had not gotten started .
Fast forward 2020 we have deviancy and decrepit morality being force feed 24/7/365 and any show of disapproval could have you declared unworthy as a citizen and labeled persona non grata !
Slouching towards Gomorrah !

Llpoh
Llpoh
  Anonymous
May 6, 2020 3:47 am

No globalism. Far fewer instances of international travel. Etc. No internet. The entire world was a different place.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
May 5, 2020 1:13 pm

People just look at you and blink when you tell them about ’57 and ’68.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Mary Christine
May 5, 2020 4:56 pm

MC I’m lucky I’m still standing and mobil , not so much age but mileage & wear and tear .
But I learned to recognize nonsense and bull shit when I see and hear it

B.S. in V.C.
B.S. in V.C.
May 5, 2020 1:29 pm

They didn’t have an agenda they were trying to install in 1957

Sam Fox
Sam Fox
  B.S. in V.C.
May 5, 2020 8:06 pm

B.S. in V.C.–The ‘take over & control the planet’ agenda was there, just not as advanced as today. Remember, we got the globalist banker’s Bank of England owned ‘Federal’ Reserve in 1913. WWII was of their design.

Shucks, in ’57 I was only going on 9 years old.

SamFox

B.S. in V.C.
B.S. in V.C.
  Sam Fox
May 5, 2020 9:57 pm

Sam you are absolutely right I was born in 73 and have watched the liberal adgenda destroy the USA. But in 57 there were enough white Christian males that believed in America that they held the bankers at bay

Llpoh
Llpoh
  B.S. in V.C.
May 6, 2020 3:56 am

You folks are blinkered. The elites ruled with a heavy hand in 1957. Try travelling across the US by car, and taking a cat nap in your car in say Texas or Mississippi or Louisiana at that time, and see how fast you went to the slammer.

Young men got their asses drafted and sent to foreign wars at that time. That was a real good time for them.

If you think that things were not as equally corrupt, perhaps more so, back then, you are out of your minds.

The fucking cops were WORSE back then than today. Today, they worry about being videoed. Not then – they just beat shit out of you and did not give a fuck about who saw what.

I have witnessed cops do abominable things during my life – and the worst of it was back in the 60s. The early 80s were bad too, when I saw a young drunk man get the absolute shit kicked out of him. He made a bad decision, but not that warranted getting crap kicked out of him.

They did horrendous shit back then. They have just legalised a lot of it these days (like asset forfeiture, which they used to use vagrancy laws to achieve the same result).

SeeBee
SeeBee
  Llpoh
May 6, 2020 9:10 am

You are so right, Llpoh. I am incensed and disgusted at what was done to so many innocent people of all colors and ethnicities. So much has been hidden from, misrepresented and propagandized towards the American public. Wake up, America….We once had, Now We Are HAD.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  SeeBee
May 6, 2020 9:55 am

See Bee.
Great line. We once had, Now we are had!!

Eugene
Eugene
  B.S. in V.C.
May 6, 2020 8:42 am

True,and the jews were despised still in the 50s.Now they own Most media and created this paranoia.

Montefrío
Montefrío
  B.S. in V.C.
May 6, 2020 11:11 am

I was alive then and I wouldn’t be too sure about that. My counter-intelligence officer father certainly wasn’t, not even when he was later a sell-out with the Fed. When in his cups, he had quite a lot to say and none of it was encouraging with respect to the future of the USA.

walter johnson
walter johnson
May 5, 2020 1:30 pm

We have allowed government to become the master. We had government in charge but with an understanding of its place. Government is now the total master. This has been caused by allowing women to rise to positions of power and use the female energy to attain complete control and dominance over the people. We did this out of ignorance and arrogance with a heavy dose of laziness thrown in for good measure. We did this to ourselves.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
May 5, 2020 1:33 pm

All of you Pro- Mask Wearing little Sissies should watch Bix Weirs you-tube video out today on his Road to Roota site. We were right, you were wrong!!! Written apologies should be forthcoming but I won’t hold my breath.
THE CARES ACT WAS WRITTEN IN JAN. 2019.

flash
flash
  Fleabaggs
May 5, 2020 3:56 pm

Even worse. Since Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II has declared a public emergency, which under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act may be used to force vaccinations and anyone harmed by said vaccines will have no recourse to seek damages or restitution.

ACTION:

Notice of declaration.
SUMMARY:

The Secretary is issuing this Declaration pursuant to section 319F-3 of the Public Health Service Act to provide liability immunity for activities related to medical countermeasures against COVID-19.
DATES:

The Declaration was effective as of February 4, 2020.

https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/prepact/Pages/default.aspx

The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to issue a declaration (PREP Act declaration) that provides immunity from liability (except for willful misconduct) for claims of loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of countermeasures to diseases, threats and conditions determined by the Secretary to constitute a present, or credible risk of a future public health emergency to entities and individuals involved in the development, manufacture, testing, distribution, administration, and use of such countermeasures. A PREP Act declaration is specifically for the purpose of providing immunity from liability, and is different from, and not dependent on, other emergency declarations.

Worth a read.

Coronavirus Pt 1: How Soon We Forget – Same Playbook, Different Virus

by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, AOBNM. ABIHM

Coronavirus Pt 1: How Soon We Forget – Same Playbook, Different Virus

Coronavirus Pt 2: ‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste’, Replay

https://vaxxter.com/coronavirus-pt-2-never-let-a-good-crisis-go-to-waste-replay/

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  flash
May 5, 2020 4:18 pm
ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  flash
May 5, 2020 5:19 pm

Flash is spot on again……..

Compulsory vaccs……..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_9bQ_Ri9p0

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——===

I wonder is the Jesuit Fauci has cut the Emperor in on remdesivir

flash
flash
  ordo ab chao
May 5, 2020 6:24 pm

Where is Big Fag Media on this? No one can prove that “negligence” is willful,especially if you’re dead, thus you’re at the mercy of the medical mafia, by design. Need more proof that Congress is a criminal cartel?

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/17/2020-05484/declaration-under-the-public-readiness-and-emergency-preparedness-act-for-medical-countermeasures

“Thus, it is the Secretary’s interpretation that, when a Declaration is in effect, the Act precludes, for example, liability claims alleging negligence by a manufacturer in creating a vaccine, or negligence by a health care provider in prescribing the wrong dose, absent willful misconduct. Likewise, the Act precludes a liability claim relating to the management and operation of a countermeasure distribution program or site, such as a slip-and-fall injury or vehicle collision by a recipient receiving a countermeasure at a retail store serving as an administration or dispensing location that alleges, for example, lax security or chaotic crowd control. However, a liability claim alleging an injury occurring at the site that was not directly related to the countermeasure activities is not covered, such as a slip and fall with no direct connection to the countermeasure’s administration or use. In each case, whether immunity is applicable will depend on the particular facts and circumstances.”

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flash
flash
  ordo ab chao
May 5, 2020 6:26 pm

+1000 everyone should watch this hour of truth by one of the bravest ladies in the medical field, especially the last ten minutes.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  flash
May 6, 2020 3:54 am

Flash….

That’s a good interview. If you haven’t seen the ‘Plandemic’ video posted below by Card802, you ought to. It is already being pulled from utube, but another very brave lady that did prison time because of the rat Fauci, the remdesivir tycoon…..

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——==

piearesquared
piearesquared
May 5, 2020 1:38 pm

“The mystery of why today vast numbers of governments around the world (but not all) have crushed economies, locked people under house arrest, wrecked business, spread despair, disregarded basic freedoms and rights will require years if not decades to sort out.”

It is not a mystery to those who understand the NWO agenda, and who understand that the NWO is not a “conspiracy theory”. Once you understand that it all makes sense. But it’s not going to be “sorted out” if the NWO is successful at achieving their goals, which it certainly looks like they will be. The remarkable ease they had accomplishing everything they have done in the last couple of months is breathtaking. It was easy because the Left tends to trust government and is especially dismissive of “conspiracy theories”. And the citizens of most countries are disarmed, so they couldn’t effectively resist even if they wanted to. In America the Right is armed, but they mostly trust Trump (and many also believe Q-Anon), so they have been almost completely ineffective at resisting this.

Mygirl....Maybe
Mygirl....Maybe
  piearesquared
May 5, 2020 11:48 pm

The push for the creation of a ‘new world order’ has been long in the making. In this country it started officially with the creation of the Federal Reserve, the IRS and the non-ratification of the 16th Amendment. Essentially what we are witnessing is the final phase for implementation of said NWO headed by a banking cabal that controls currencies, trade, industry, resources and nations. Governments are there to enforce the edicts of the cabal.
So long as there is a massive and unwieldy Federal Government the problems facing the country will only grow exponentially. Here’s a lengthy timeline….see any patterns and agendas developing?

In 1913, the Federal Reserve Act was passed, creating the Federal Reserve System.
In 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations was founded in New York City.
In 1935, the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States with the Eye of Providence above the pyramid appeared for the first time on the back of the U.S. one dollar bill.
In 1944, the Bretton Woods Agreement was signed, outlining a regime for the post World War II world economy.
In 1945, the United Nations was founded.
In 1954, the Bilderberg Group was founded.
In 1957, the European Economic Community (European Common Market) was formed, which in 1992 changed its name to the European Union. Currently, the EU has 27 member states, 15 of which use a common currency, the Euro.
In 1963, the Codex Alimentarius Commission was established by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization, later to be backed by the World Trade Organization.
In 1973, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski organized the Trilateral Commission. The Club of Rome issued a report entitled the “Regionalized and Adaptive Model of the Global World System,” which proposes that the world be divided into ten regions.
In 1995, the United Nations’ International Trade Organization‘s (ITO) General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) group was renamed the World Trade Organization (WTO).[42]
In 2001, the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon were attacked by al-Qaeda terrorists, killing thousands of people. Many 9/11 conspiracy theorists believe that they were carried out or supported by the U.S. government. The attacks have been linked to ideas about the New World Order, sometimes presented as psychological operations to frighten Americans into giving up their civil liberties to a “homeland security” authority that will eventually turn control of the United States over to a “world government.”[citation needed]
In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act was signed by George W. Bush, which expands the authority of U.S. law enforcement agencies for the stated purpose of fighting terrorism in the United States and abroad.
In 2002, the FDA approved the manufacture of the VeriChip microchip implant. This aroused people’s fears that some future totalitarian governments could enforce the implanting of these chips and thus be a form of the Number of the Beast mentioned in the Book of Revelation. Revelation 13:16-13:17[43][44]
In 2004, the Independent Task Force on North America, a project organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, proposes the establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community, generally referred to as the North American Union. It has been proposed by Robert Pastor, a vice-chairman of the task force, that the North American Union would have a common currency, the amero.[45]
In 2007, then U.S. president George W. Bush signed into effect the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, which grants the president broad powers during a time of “national emergency”. This directive also grants unprecedented power to the Commander In Chief of the US Military (the president) without any type of overriding system of checks and balances from the United States Congress.[46]In 2008, European Commission president José Manuel Durão Barroso said, “We need a new global financial order”, in reference to a planned series of World Economic Summits to be hosted by U.S. president George W. Bush.[47]
In 2009, U.K prime minister Gordon Brown talks of “the difficult birth-pangs of a new global order” in a speech warning against what he called “deglobalisation” in the face of the global economic crisis.[48]

History of The New World Order, How it started and what will become of it

Mygirl....Maybe
Mygirl....Maybe
  Mygirl....Maybe
May 5, 2020 11:59 pm

I do believe Brandon Smith nailed it here…He posted this January 31st of this year. Seems the lad was a tad prescient….BTW: I still maintain that the virus is serious and deadly to many, I have said that from the get-go, however, my belief in the seriousness of the disease doesn’t mean I cannot see where the end game is headed and realize the ulterior motives at work here. I can walk and chew gum simultaneously.

The reason why globalists want a collapse is simple – They need crisis in order to manipulate the masses into accepting total centralization, a global monetary system and global governance. They are also rabid believers in eugenics and population reduction. At the very least, a global pandemic is a useful happenstance for them; but the timing of the coronavirus event and their highly accurate “simulation” only three months ago also suggests their potential involvement, as it comes right as the implosion of the Everything Bubble was accelerating.

Consider this: Even if a pandemic does not kill a large number of people, it still disrupts international travel, it disrupts exports and imports, it disrupts consumer behavior and retail sales, and it disrupts domestic trade. If it does kill a large number of people, and if the Chinese government’s response is any indication, it could result in global martial law. With many economies including the US economy already in a precarious balancing act of historic debt vs. crashing demand and useless central bank repo market intervention, there is little chance that the system can withstand such a tsunami.

Make no mistake, the crash has already begun, whether the virus hits the US hard or not. The only question is, will this be the trigger event that accelerates the collapse process that is already in motion?”

How Viral Pandemic Benefits The Globalist Agenda

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Mygirl....Maybe
May 6, 2020 3:49 am

MgM….

Nice list, but your comment seems to counter itself. From your link, the ‘timeline list’ begins with:

“There are several events that are considered pivotal in and related to the establishment of the New World Order:[38]

In 1776, the Bavarian Illuminati was founded (May 1, 1776) in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria) by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830),[39] who was the first lay professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt.[40]
In 1832, Skull and Bones was founded at Yale University.
In 1903, the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were published in Russia. Modern scholars are in general agreement that the Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire, fabricated the text in the late 1890s or early 1900s by plagiarizing it, almost word for word in some passages, from a 19th Century satire against Napoleon III originally written by a French attorney whose political views were legitimistic.”

” In this country it started officially with the creation of the ……” I posit that the country was founded for the very purpose of bringing the world to worship the fallen one; the light bringer…..

“In 1935, the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States with the Eye of Providence above the pyramid appeared for the first time on the back of the U.S. one dollar bill.”

The Continental Congress adopted the Great Seal on June 20, 1782, and eventually the U.S. Congress approved it on September 15, 1789.

From Encyclopedia Britannica:

“Great Seal of the United States, official seal of the United States of America. The design of the obverse is the coat of arms of the United States—an official emblem, mark of identification, and symbol of the authority of the government. On the reverse is an unfinished pyramid topped with an eye enclosed in a triangle. Above this are the words Annuit Cœptis (“He Has Favored Our Undertaking”). Carved at the base of the pyramid is MDCCLXXVI (1776) in reference to the Declaration of Independence, and below that is the motto Novus Ordo Seclorum (“A New Order of the Ages”).”

(He Has Favored Our Undertaking)………masonic god lucifer

“In 1973, David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski organized the Trilateral Commission. The Club of Rome issued a report entitled the “Regionalized and Adaptive Model of the Global World System,” which proposes that the world be divided into ten regions.”

And Z-bigs baby girl pushes the agenda each morning with her hubby, the scolded cup of Joe. Will the Emperor get his wish for an investigation into the intern’s death?

“In 2001, the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon were attacked by al-Qaeda terrorists, killing thousands of people…” And the rest of the paragraph…????

Should have mentioned the customary islamic burial at sea, too.

I have to agree with you about Brandon Smith. From the secular view, he sees things clearly.

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<—–== when gods once again comingle with men

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  ordo ab chao
May 6, 2020 5:15 am

Ordo.
A history of Central Banking and the enslavement of mankinds by Stephen Goodson sums it all up from a secular view. After reading it, it’s easy to see what’s happening on a weekly basis.
You’re right about the purpose of our creation. We are Britians daughter. Always were. she taught us everything we know, all we did was bring it to an art form.
We even have a Stuart Prince waiting in the wings. Di was a Stuart
And one Cabal to rule them all.

Mygirl....Maybe
Mygirl....Maybe
  ordo ab chao
May 6, 2020 10:52 am

I stated ‘in this country’ for a reason. Going back to the Illuminati in Bavaria would eat up too much space for a c0mments section. I’m commenting, not writing editorials. I will leave that to those better suited for the occupation. I daresay I am preaching to the choir here on this topic.

Montefrío
Montefrío
  Mygirl....Maybe
May 6, 2020 11:24 am

Nice summary! Would that I could believe there’ll be a meaningful resistance beyond the gate to my property! I don’t, however, and am making my plans accordingly, working to convince my children (and dtr-in-law) of same. Son good, daughter something of a waffler, dtr-in-law on the fence but leaning my way. Grandchildren (six, four, one) when given a cookie will agree with anything I say. Sound familiar?

overthecliff
overthecliff
  Montefrío
May 6, 2020 12:29 pm

I resemble your comment.

Tr4head
Tr4head
May 5, 2020 1:46 pm

Bravo. Good stuff. And of course while the first postwar gen deserves some credit for not going balistically insane they did not have to deal with a blatantly evil all powerful media bent on fascist totaliaranism at all costs. If the context was the same they would have shutdown the world too.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Tr4head
May 5, 2020 2:04 pm

Tr4
As a matter of fact the media of the first postwar generation was indeed blatantly evil but not Fascist. It was entirely Zionist controlled Kabbalistic Communist controlled. Need proof? Watch any David Irving video where he gives reams of government documentation and correspondance of world leaders including FDR, Churchill and the Soviets. Just to name one.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED
May 5, 2020 2:35 pm

So we’re trusting something that comes from the CDC ? Fuck the CDC .

How good was the healthcare system in 1957 ? That’s the same time that my great grandfather bled out from a F’d up prostate surgery. Of course if you had blocked arteries back then…well..you just died …unlike today .

If you’re worried about Covid-19 then be safe…if you’re not….do what you will . Time will determine the outcome….as history always shows .

Oh…and buy more ammo and food…you’re going to need it soon enough .

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  BUCKHED
May 5, 2020 6:54 pm

How good was healthcare back then. House calls were 5 bucks and most drugs were non prescription.

Llpoh
Llpoh
  Fleabaggs
May 6, 2020 9:04 am

And people fell of the perch 10 years younger.

SeeBee
SeeBee
  Llpoh
May 6, 2020 9:25 am

IMO, think it was hard and dangerous work that may have killed ’em off sooner. Not the lack of good healthcare. Now we are made to die painfully and slowly because of whacky healthcare.

John Galt
John Galt
May 5, 2020 3:21 pm

Kid Writes A Letter Home After Joining The Marines.

Their kid joined the marines and the parents were anticipating a letter in order to know how their child was doing. When they finally received one it quickly went viral. This is definitely a must read!

Dear Ma and Pa:

I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.

I was restless at first because you get to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. But I am getting used to it, so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer that before breakfast, you just need to smooth your bed and make some things shine. No pigs to drag, bad luck feed, porridge to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Virtually nothing.

Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there’s warm water here. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours, holds you until noon when you get fed again. It’s no wonder these city boys can’t walk much.

We go on “route marches,” which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it’s not my place to tell him different. A “route march” is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

The sergeant is like a school teacher. He complains a lot. The captain is like the school board. The majors and the colonels are content to roll around and frown. They don’t bother you

This next will k.i…l….l Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don’t know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don’t move, and it ain’t shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home.All you have to do is lie down comfortably and hit it. You don’t even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain’t like fighting with that ole bull at home. I’m about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake . I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I’m only 5’6″ and 130 pounds and he’s 6’8″ and near 300 pounds dry.

Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

Your loving daughter,

Alice

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  John Galt
May 5, 2020 3:46 pm

Now that’s funny.

Sam Fox
Sam Fox
  Fleabaggs
May 5, 2020 8:21 pm

John, I’m with Fleabags. That was hilarious!! Sounds about right, that letter.

SamFox

Montefrío
Montefrío
  John Galt
May 6, 2020 11:29 am

Wonderful, simply wonderful.

22winmag - TBP's Corona Hoax Investigator
22winmag - TBP's Corona Hoax Investigator
May 5, 2020 3:24 pm

I’m sending this to my brainwashed friend in Idiot Yet Intellectual Boston as a last ditch effort to make him snap out of it.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
May 5, 2020 3:55 pm

“Most likely, the ultimate answer will look roughly like what historians say about the Great War (WWI): it was a perfect storm that created a calamity that no one intended at the outset.”

It’s sad just how little the author knows about the ‘history’ of WW2 — who did what to whom and why — who was looking for war and who was not — who was behind the US entry into the war and for what agenda …

So many lies have been told about WW1 and WW2 and who the bullies were and who the guilty bastards were … and, sadly, many are still with US today — stirring the pot whenever possible, urging the US and others to fight battles in which they have no intere$t.

overthecliff
overthecliff
May 5, 2020 8:41 pm

I remember the Asian Flu. It was pretty rough on some people. Took weeks to recover in some cases. The prevailing opinion was that that flu was worse than usual but not the end of the world. Everyone kept going to work and the news was concerned about the Russians then, too.There was no panic that I remember but I was 14 at the time. My High School was all white and all was right with the world. Ahh, nostalgia.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Card802
May 5, 2020 9:37 pm

Card.
Business as usual for “Them”. The did the same thing to Eustis Mullens and many others that we can’t even name because it was hidden.

ZombieDawg
ZombieDawg
May 5, 2020 10:37 pm

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Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  ZombieDawg
May 5, 2020 11:29 pm

Now your talking. 3 months ago I would post the number of people who died from death alongside the number of alleged c-19 coviscam victims to give perspective. The professional fainters were outraged.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Fleabaggs
May 5, 2020 11:39 pm

flea,
up until a couple of weeks ago i supported a semi lock down mainly b/c china locked down so many people–
were we played by the chicoms?did they hit the panic button?did our pols hit the panic button or are we being played by our establishment?
what happened?

The King and I (EC)
The King and I (EC)
  TampaRed
May 6, 2020 12:34 am

What movie was it where the bankers greet the robbers with open arms. The robbers get away with $1000 and the news says the take was $1M?

A crisis is too good and opportunity for theft to let it go to waste.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  TampaRed
May 6, 2020 3:23 am

Red.
Several weeks before the lockdown or state of emergency was declared I said to Mygirl that I’m convinced it’s a bio-weapon but that I’m unsure who the target was. I think I left you a link to a Dr. Cottrell explaining how the HIV splice was done to act as a grappling hook to better attach itself to lung tissue. At the time I was only referring to a handful of candidates. After country after country started falling in line with the same lockdown routine I realized the intended target was the world population Via Psyop. I stated the lethality was unimportant to the scheme itself because “The Establishment” controlled the news. We have been Nine Elevened.

SeeBee
SeeBee
  Fleabaggs
May 6, 2020 9:51 am

Perhaps for different reasons, but I was right there beside you.

1/20 is the new 9/11 (EC)
1/20 is the new 9/11 (EC)
  SeeBee
May 6, 2020 10:50 am

I did not see it coming.

StackingStock
StackingStock
May 6, 2020 12:43 am

The Perfect Game

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  StackingStock
May 6, 2020 4:09 am

Dandy-fine little video, Stack.

I would bet EC knows about that team from Monterrey

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——==

IKE had them visit the White House just a few short years after Operation Wetback…..a shift in the political winds?

Llpoh
Llpoh
May 6, 2020 3:45 am

From the article: “ Even with shorter lives, it was a healthier population with lower rates of obesity.”

I dunno. That sounds illogical.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  Llpoh
May 6, 2020 6:12 am

Infant mortality and childbearing deaths. Add to that more men were involved in far more dangerous occupations with far fewer safety features available. Much larger portion of the population smoked, too. 2x the number of auto fatalities, etc.

That’s the portion of the population that skewed the statistics.

Don’t know if that’s part of it, but it seems likely.

Llpoh
Llpoh
  Hardscrabble Farmer
May 6, 2020 9:06 am

So we traded smoking for obesity. Hardly makes the population healthier, now does it.

But I suspect you are somewhat right. But lots of folks living to much older ages today.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Llpoh
May 6, 2020 10:29 am

Llpoh.
Black lung is unheard of today but was big then. Alchoholism from those same coal mining areas was a real plague. You had to drive through Appalachia to see and feel the depression in the faces. Water polution Milleniels can’t comprehend.
Farm fatalities. I know you’ve heard of the infamous “Widow Maker Cow”, Tractor flipovers, exhaustion and DDT poisoning. Farm populations were Half or more of the total in the early 50’s and there is a reason those kids were glad to move to the new suburbias. The level of industrial air polution in the N.E. cities was appalling.
For every Bucolic farm scene the was an equal amount of not so bucolic. I had it good in my tarpaper shack because most men worked off farm all or part of the year for cash but the migrants living and working conditions would shock the average 30 something today. Women and kids(Small kids) bent over in the fields were a common scene. Infant mortality and mothers dying during childbirth being counted in the poor health care column is misleading.
What we didn’t have were “Chemical Doctors” killing us slowly with pills for the bad reaction to other pills for the bad reaction of other pills.
My argument may or may not have merit because I was a kid then and I’m just going on memory and stories from relatives.

Horst
Horst
May 6, 2020 3:20 pm

Military vaccination propaganda, 1957

https://vimeo.com/411439620