Just before breakfast on the morning of March 4, Private Albert Gitchell of the U.S. Army reports to the hospital at Fort Riley, Kansas, complaining of the cold-like symptoms of sore throat, fever and headache. Soon after, over 100 of his fellow soldiers had reported similar symptoms, marking what are believed to be the first cases in the historic influenza pandemic of 1918, later known as Spanish flu. The flu would eventually kill 675,000 Americans and an estimated 20 million to 50 million people around the world, proving to be a far deadlier force than even the First World War.
The initial outbreak of the disease, reported at Fort Riley in March, was followed by similar outbreaks in army camps and prisons in various regions of the country. The disease soon traveled to Europe with the American soldiers heading to aid the Allies on the battlefields of France. (In March 1918 alone, 84,000 American soldiers headed across the Atlantic; another 118,000 followed them the next month.)
Once it arrived on a second continent, the flu showed no signs of abating: 31,000 cases were reported in June in Great Britain. The disease was eventually dubbed the Spanish flu because people erroneously believed Spain was the epicenter of the pandemic.
The flu showed no mercy for combatants on either side of the trenches. Over the summer, the first wave of the epidemic hit German forces on the Western Front, where they were waging a final, no-holds-barred offensive that would determine the outcome of the war. It had a significant effect on the already weakening morale of the troops—as German army commander Crown Prince Rupprecht wrote on August 3: poor provisions, heavy losses, and the deepening influenza have deeply depressed the spirits of men in the III Infantry Division.
Meanwhile, the flu was spreading fast beyond the borders of Western Europe, due to its exceptionally high rate of virulence and the massive transport of men on land and aboard ship due to the war effort. By the end of the summer, numerous cases had been reported in Russia, North Africa and India; China, Japan, the Philippines and even New Zealand would eventually fall victim as well.
The Great War ended on November 11, but influenza continued to wreak international havoc, flaring again in the U.S. in an even more vicious wave with the return of soldiers from the war and eventually infecting an estimated 28 percent of the country’s population before it finally petered out. In its December 28, 1918, issue, the American Medical Association acknowledged the end of one momentous conflict and urged the acceptance of a new challenge: fighting infectious disease.
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Why so many deaths?? Because they didn’t wear masks, wash their hands (filthy pigs!!), or keep 6 feet away from every other human being!! Factual!!!
I thank God daily that we live in more Enlightened Times.
According to a paper Fauci co authored on the Spanish Flu in 2008, most people died from bacterial pneumonia because of constant mask wearing. It would appear there is similar rise in pneumonia starting again.
Ft. Riley, where they were conducting human experiments on a new influenza vaccine. And history documents the results. We will now wait and see what these human genetic experiments produce. Will you be able to find out if your future spouse has had the vaccine, or the person who donated the pint of blood you are about to receive, or will future generations not be allowed to attempt to undo the damage the genocidal scientists are creating?
I think nature will undo it all.
I think that the experiment was for a meningitis vaccine. In those days, ‘flu’ was a word used to describe diseases of unknown origin, thus the use of flu in the name given to the epidemic, with “Spanish” attached because Spain’s government didn’t go along with the theory of a pandemic.
The assholes who caused the outbreak weren’t about to call it meningitis since that’s what they were fiddling with at Ft. Riley. Anyway, that’s what I read, and I don’t remember the author. I’ll try to look for it when I get unbusy shitposting over here. 😉
I always get a kick out of the 20 to 50 million people killed statement. Kind of like when the swine flu infected America, it was said that over 60 million people were infected and 12 to 18 thousand died. Obama was in office then so there was no need to panic because all would be well. Was it 20 million or 50 million? Was it 12 thousand or 18 thousand. We now have a circumstance where everyone is apparently dying from the whu who flu, no matter what they really die from.
Here’s a hint: In 1918 the world was in a Grand Solar Minimum. 2020 we entered another Grand Solar Minimum, which appears as though is going to be more sever this cycle then the 1918 downturn.
now can you connect the dots?
No, I don’t connect any dots. The covid19 plandemic has an imaginary virus at its root. It’s a total fraud. Unless a result of the earth entering a solar minimum cycle is supposed to be increased fuckery by elites, what is the connection between 1918 and 2020?
Fauci wrote a paper that determined the majority of the Spanish Flu deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, not the Spanish Flu – caused by people wearing masks.