[Paleo Conservative]

There weren’t any flu vaccines until the early part of WWII.

[lightman]

My wife had a great-grandfather who died of the Spanish Influenze.

No vaccines available to the civilians.

[hanamizu]

There weren’t any flu vaccines until the early part of WWII.

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Not only that, but the deaths were pretty much world-wide and many in places that wouldn’t have had access to vaccines had such been available, which they weren’t.

I used to tell my students who attended a certain rural church to look for tombstones that showed whole families who died in 1919. There were several.

For a good overview of what the ‘Spanish Flu’ was and how devastating it was I recommend this YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE0-WWqhFls&t=319s

[untenured]

Don’t bother, he’s full-on crackpottiin’.

[Antoninus]

Not true. There was an attempt to vaccinate against the Spanish flu — it failed.

[Neverlift]

From the article: “It was caused by random dosages of an experimental ‘bacterial meningitis vaccine,’ which to this day mimics flu-like symptoms,” Martingano explains.

The vaccine that they blame was not for flu.