One new historical development that has been evolving over a few years and now brought into focus because of COVID-19, is the so-called “Spanish Flu” of 1918. Recurring reports and documentation are emerging to tell us that this ‘Greatest Pandemic in History’ was[1]
not “Spanish”,[2]
not “the flu” and,[3] not
a natural occurrence but the result of human tinkering with vaccines. There
surely is much more to emerge, but the accumulating evidence to date is too
compelling to dismiss.
In simple terms, the emerging
evidence supports postulations that the 1918 pandemic was caused by a misguided
– and very experimental – Rockefeller Institute meningitis vaccination program
which was initiated at Fort Riley by the US military, and spread to the world
from there. This essay will attempt to briefly document the evidence that is
available so far. There will of course be many objections to the content of
this essay, not only from the ideologues and trolls, but from those in high
places with vital body organs requiring protection.
First, there was never any
justification for associating the 1918 pandemic with Spain. The pathogen did
not originate in Spain, nor was Spain the hardest hit. The most
commonly-accepted “official story” as related by our MSM is that all countries
but Spain had initiated severe censorship (due to the war) and thus the facts
of the pandemic freely circulated only in the Spanish media, and so it was
“natural” to refer to this as the Spanish Flu. From this reasoning, since we
all know the US has at least 125% freedom of speech and minus the same degree
of censorship, we should rename COVID-19 “The American curse”. (This may yet
happen, for other more valid reasons).
In any case, the documented
evidence is increasingly voluminous – and increasingly solid – that this
outbreak originated at Fort Riley, Kansas, in the US. Conspiracy theorists and
historical revisionists cannot change this now.
The 1918 pandemic was quite
possibly the worst the world had seen, certainly for centuries. It infected
about 500 million people and killed at least 50 million worldwide. The current
“official narrative” (again) is that it was caused by “an H1N1 virus that
originated in birds” (which is not a ‘flu’ in any case), and its only tenuous
connection with the US was that it was “first identified in the US in military
personnel” in the spring of 1918. These claims appear to be false. In a 2008
report, the US NIH admitted that most of the deaths were not from ‘the flu’ nor
from any bird virus but from a bacterial pneumonia.[1]
The details of the studies corroborate this extensively, in
which even Dr. Anthony Fauci says, “We agree completely that bacterial
pneumonia played a major role in the mortality of the 1918 pandemic.”[2]
[3][4][5]
. In fact, it is now stated that the reason modern medical
technology was never able to identify the “killer influenza strain” from this
pandemic was because influenza was not the killer. It might be obvious to us
today because we know that influenza attacks the young, old and
immunocompromised, while the “Spanish Flu” attacked healthy people in their
prime – which is what a bacterial pneumonia does.
Again, the official narrative
tells us that, due to troop movements because of the war, the pathogen was
spread worldwide. But the current emerging thesis is that troop movements might
have been irrelevant because Rockefeller, in their combined haste and hubris,
“sent their experimental anti-meningococcal serum to England, France, Belgium,
Italy and many other countries, helping spread the epidemic worldwide.” It
certainly appears to be the prime suspect, and we can understand the reluctance
of today’s WHO and CDC to reveal this to the popular press. As Dr. Kevin Barry
wrote:
It would be much more difficult
to maintain the marketing mantra of “vaccines save lives” if a vaccine
experiment originating in the United States . . . caused the deaths of 50-100
million people. (and) “The American Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
and its experimental bacterial meningococcal vaccine may have killed 50-100
million people in 1918-19” is a far less effective sales slogan.[6]
The Smoking Gun
According to the 2008 National
Institute of Health paper, bacterial pneumonia was the killer in a minimum of
92.7% of the 1918-19 autopsies reviewed. It is likely higher than 92.7%. The
researchers looked at more than 9000 autopsies, and “there were no negative
(bacterial) lung culture results.” “… In the 68 higher-quality autopsy series,
in which the possibility of unreported negative cultures could be excluded, 92.7%
of autopsy lung cultures were positive for ≥1 bacterium. … 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.
“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
non-hemolytic streptococci); and 3 that yielded non-hemolytic streptococci
alone. There were no negative lung culture results.”[2]
Pneumococci or streptococci were found in “164 of (the) 167
lung tissue samples” autopsied. That is 98.2%. Bacteria was the killer[6]
“The 1918 and 1919 volumes of
the Journal of the American Medicine Association include many articles on the
cause, prevention, and treatment of influenza. Again and again, investigators
wonder at the spotty presence of B. influenzae in the ill, note its presence in
healthy individuals, and observe it in other infections such as measles,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, and varicella (chickenpox). In one article, the
authors write, “There seems to be no justification for the belief that the
epidemic was due to the influenza bacillus, which is probably a secondary
invader and bears about the same relation to the influenza cases as to
respiratory infections of a different sort” (Lord 1919).[7]
This appears to be where the
story begins:
Following an outbreak of
epidemic meningitis at Camp Funston, Kansas, in October and November, 1917, a
series of antimeningitis vaccinations was undertaken on volunteer subjects from
the camp.[8]
At that time, vaccinations (and perhaps much of medical
science generally) were in their infancy, with very much unknown. In
particular, Dr. Gates himself (see Note 8) notes that prior to this time,
“meningococcus vaccines have not been extensively employed for prophylactic
immunization, and only a few references are to be found in the literature that
relate vaccination experiences.” He further relates that the few referenced
cases experienced “very severe” reactions to the vaccines – which were entirely
experimental.
In this case, the Rockefeller
Institute, which seems to be where the experiments in opening this special
compartment of Pandora’s Box originated, contrived an experimental vaccine and
were understandably anxious to “see what happens”. It was apparently a rather
crude anti-bacterial vaccine that was made in horses. I haven’t the medical
competence to comment on the equine portion but others more knowledgeable have
suggested this might not have been the best method. One enormous advantage of
the war to Rockefeller was that the US Army ballooned from little more than
250,000 to 6,000,000 men, with the “Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research”
now having an enormous pool of human guinea pigs to conduct vaccine
experiments.
In a 26-page paper published in
July of 1918 by Dr. Fredrick L. Gates, M. D., First Lieutenant, Medical Corps,
U. S. Army, writing from the Base Hospital, Fort Riley, Kansas, and The
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, Dr. Gates outlines the
procedure.[8]
For the determination of dosage
and the study of reactions and antibody formation six groups of about 50 men
each were chosen from the various companies in the regiment. Successive groups
received increasing doses of vaccine in a series of three injections at 4 to 10
day intervals. The determination of the dosage of vaccine for subsequent groups
followed from the reports of the reactions produced by the given doses. It was
considered important to increase the doses gradually in order to locate closely
the zone of mild reactions and to avoid unexpectedly severe results.
The occurrence of an occasional
reaction of greater severity even with the smaller doses, and increasing local
tenderness after the injection of the larger doses of vaccine led to the choice
of relatively lower doses for the general series throughout the camp rather
than the attempt to push the dosage up to the limit of endurance. Later
experience fully justified this decision. The preliminary series of
vaccinations, therefore, served to establish the method of injection, the
proper dosage for extended vaccination, the reactions which might be expected
to follow the chosen doses, and the production of immune bodies in the serum of
vaccinated men. On the basis of these findings the vaccine was offered to the
camp at large.
“Heretofore meningococcus
vaccines have not been extensively employed for prophylactic immunization, and
only a few references are to be found in the literature that relate vaccination
experiences.”
Those few references listed
apparently experienced severe reactions, all of which indicates this was truly
an experiment intruding on ground not before traveled.
The results were not long in
coming. “… Fourteen of the largest training camps had reported influenza
outbreaks in March, April, or May, and some of the infected troops carried the
virus with them aboard ships to France … As soldiers in the trenches became
sick, the military evacuated them from the front lines and replaced them with
healthy men. This process continuously brought the virus into contact with new
hosts – young, healthy soldiers in which it could adapt, reproduce, and become
extremely virulent without danger of burning out.
… 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’s debarkation point for France,
and took influenza with them. Medical officers at Upton said it arrived
“abruptly” on September 13, 1918, with 38 hospital admissions, followed by 86
the next day, and 193 the next. 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…”[9]
I would say here that all
indications are that this event was accidental. There may well have been hubris
and ‘god-like’ imaginings at the Rockefeller Institute, but I am not in a
position to make such accusations. From everything I have seen in researching
this subject and, while I cannot speak for Rockefeller, the US military appears
to have approached this with sincerity, good intentions, and high hopes of
staving off meningitis infections in their troops. I have referenced above the
paper by Dr. Gates that was written in 1918, and have studied it repeatedly.
From those readings, I recognise no hint of deception or cover-up, no
recklessness, no disdain for the lives of the soldiers, and no attempt (as we
see with vaccines today) to minimise or discard the dangers of adverse reactions.
The entire tone of his paper is one of an intelligent and educated medical
officer sincerely documenting the situation of a dangerous pathogen and his
efforts to eliminate it. He is careful in his statements, he documents the care
in administering minor and increasing doses of the vaccine and monitoring their
effects at every stage. From everything I have learned, I could find no fault
with the US military in this ‘experiment’, except perhaps the fact that it was
an experiment. The faults, disdain, cover-ups and deception came later.
My reading of the aftermath is
that both the Rockefeller Institute and the US military (after conducting their
thousands of autopsies) fully realised what had happened and, in
humanly-understandable terms in the face of the calamity they had inadvertently
unleashed, decided the most prudent course was to bury the truth rather than
face the recriminations of an already war-weary world. Let’s not forget this
pandemic killed more people than did the war itself, by a very large margin. In
that situation, what would you do? Can you see the headlines in the NYT and
London Times, reading “Whoops!”. I believe that this pandemic became the ‘flu’
and ‘Spanish’ because it disguised both the origin and the pathogen itself,
steering the world’s public in wrong directions and blaming everything on
nature. But perhaps after more than 100 years it is time for the US to show a
bit of courage and integrity and tell the truth. There is after all a first
time for everything.
The Inevitable “Chinese
Coolies”
There is one other aspect to
this that requires mention: the attempt by some individuals to lay the blame
for this event on China. The accusation itself is too stupid to warrant
refuting, but I will briefly deal with it because it is one element of a large
category of history that demands public revelation – that of Jewish slave
trading.
The connection with this topic
to the 1918 pandemic is the theory first promulgated by a Canadian historian
named Mark Humphries from Canada’s Memorial University of Newfoundland who
wrote that newly unearthed records confirm that one of the side stories of the
war – the mobilization of 96,000 Chinese laborers to work behind the British
and French lines on World War I’s Western Front – may have been the source of
the pandemic. While Humphries acknowledges that his hypothesis awaits
confirmation, the National Geographic couldn’t wait and, in an article written
by Dan Vergano – they published the accusation as “about as close to a smoking
gun as a historian is going to get”.
That wouldn’t be so bad, but
this is only 1% of the picture of Chinese “laborers” working “behind the lines”
at the oddest places in the world. It needs to be told that the International
Jews responsible for China’s opium century – Rothschild, Sassoon, Kadoorie,
Hardoon, and many more, were also responsible for kidnapping and transporting
as slaves millions of Chinese from Fujian and Guangdong for at least 150 years
– the reason we have Chinese all over the world.
Few are aware that the Panama
Canal was built primarily by Chinese slaves kidnapped by Jewish slave traders
and shipped to Central America. That is the reason that even today more than
10% of the population of Panama is Chinese. The same was true for the Great
Panama Railroad, interestingly documented by tales that after completion all
the Chinese committed suicide. The story was that once the Railroad was built,
the Chinese ‘laborers’ began smoking opium and all killed themselves, some
apparently by cutting off their own heads. As James Bond would say, “Well,
that’s a neat trick”. I should point out that the symptoms of smoking opium are
pacific, not violent, and nobody is likely to cut off their own heads, impale
those same heads on a spike, or hang themselves with their own hair.
It was the same with the
railroads in both Canada and the US, where (as with the HSBC bank) the names
were Scottish but the money was all Jewish, and countless thousands of Chinese
were kidnapped and sent to North America to build the railroads for their Jewish
friends – after which most were massacred.
The connection with the 1918
pandemic is the approximately 150,000 Chinese “laborers” who “voluntarily” went
from Shandong to Europe to assist in the war effort. This by itself is
ridiculous. The Chinese in Shandong had enough trouble with the Jews selling
opium and the Japanese gobbling up their country to care about some stupid war
halfway around the world. What happened was that the International Jews had
infiltrated themselves so thoroughly into China that they controlled Chiang
Kai-Shek and more importantly Harvard-educated T. V. Soong and, after
establishing a Rothschild-owned Central Bank, were in the process of looting
every penny from China. In the midst of this, and with the war now a reality,
they prevailed upon Chiang and Soong to kidnap yet more Chinese to be used as
slave labor and cannon fodder for their war in Europe. Chiang obliged, and the
Chinese citizens were forcibly conscripted as always.
They were sent first to Canada,
transported across the country to the Atlantic, then shipped to Europe where
nearly all of them died. This is the issue. “Historians” (primarily Jewish)
have suddenly discovered that the Chinese who were shipped to Canada and Europe
came not only with their luggage but with the “Spanish flu”, ready to infect
the world. The documented evidence is of course non-existent but then Jewish
historical novels seldom rely on evidence. One Jewish historian tells us that
at the time China was suffering from something that “just must have been” the
Spanish flu, with at least 150 miles along the Great Wall suffering from this
infection. Well, Beijing is like every other cold climate in the world in that
we will find colds and the flu in winter, so nothing special here. But what we
actually had was one Chinese at mile zero, one at mile 150 and one at mile 300,
and thus we have infected Chinese for at least 300 miles.
The next part tells us that
when the “infected” Chinese were in Canada waiting for transportation to
Europe, they were housed in internment camps “surrounded by barbed wire”. Even
worse, while on the 8,000 Km. train trip across Canada, their carriages were
locked to protect them from “anti-Chinese sentiment”. That’s cute. Would this
be like the American Wild West, where gangs of marauding Canadians would be
mounted on horseback and chasing down trains so they could mount them and beat
up the hated Chinese passengers? There was no anti-Chinese sentiment extant to
justify such outrageous measures. The Chinese were indeed in locked carriages,
and for the same reason they were in internment camps with barbed wire – so the
ungrateful kidnapped slaves couldn’t escape.
The theory is further
embellished that many of the kidnapped Chinese were ill, conveniently with the
Spanish flu, and thus carried it from the Great Wall to Europe. No indication
of how it migrated to Fort Riley. And of course, the reason the Spanish flu
didn’t affect China was because all Chinese had already been infected and were
immune. I was always a fan of Science Fiction, but it occurs to me that Medical
Fiction may be even more exciting.
There is so much effort today
to attribute the ‘Spanish flu’ to the Chinese – by Jewish historians – as there
also is to attribute Europe’s Bubonic Plague to the Chinese – by the same Jewish
historians. This really needs to end, and the best method is to name and
identify all those responsible. Perhaps the time has finally arrived for the
world to know the truth of a great many things.
Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated
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studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in
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Additional References
1. Deaths from Bacterial
Pneumonia during 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic
John F. Brundage* and G. Dennis
Shanks†
Author affiliations: *Armed
Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; †Australian Army
Malaria Institute, Enoggera, Queensland, Australia
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/8/07-1313_article
4. PDF of Fort Riley Study
[1918]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2126288/pdf/449.pdf
5. American Experience, “The
First Wave”, PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/influenza-first-wave/
Notes
[1] Bacterial
Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza
[2] J
Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 1; 1987: 962–970. Predominant Role of Bacterial Pneumonia
as a Cause of Death in Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Pandemic Influenza
Preparedness David M. Morens, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and Anthony S. Fauci
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599911/
[3] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14458-bacteria-were-the-real-killers-in-1918-flu-pandemic/
[4] https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/07/gary-g-kohls/the-true-story-of-the-1918-so-called-viral-influenza-pandemic/
[5] https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2008-10-01-Predominant-Role-of-Bacterial-Pneumonia-as-a-Cause-of-Death-in-Pandemic-Influenza-
Implications-for-Pandemic-Influenza-Preparedness-by-AS-Fauci-DM-Morens-J-K-Taubenberger-Jrnl-of-Infect-.pdf
[6] https://fort-russ.com/2020/05/did-psychopath-rockefeller-create-the-spanish-flu-pandemic-of-1918/
[7] https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/vaccine-development-spanish-flu
[8] A
REPORT ON ANTIMENINGITIS VACCINATION
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/7827612.pdf
[9] Public
Health Rep. 2010; 125(Suppl 3): 82–91. The U.S. Military and the Influenza
Pandemic of 1918–1919; Carol R. Byerly, PhD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862337/
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-1918-rockefeller-us-army-worldwide-pandemic/
