Posted on 01/30/2018 10:14:37 AM PST by rktman
The flu arrived as a great war raged in Europe, a conflict that would leave about 20 million people dead over four years.
In 1918, the flu would kill more than twice that number — and perhaps five times as many — in just 15 months. Though mostly forgotten, it has been called “the greatest medical holocaust in history.”
Experts believe between 50 and 100 million people were killed. More than two-thirds of them died in a single 10-week period in the autumn of 1918.
Never have so many died so swiftly from a single disease. In the United States alone, it killed about 675,000 in about a year — the same number who have died of AIDS in nearly 40 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“Not getting the vaccine is like not buying car insurance because you know people who bought it and still got into an accident.
You described very well one side of the coin...
Things are a little different now, vaccines, better drugs, better hygiene.
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Scare tactics to get people to get the vaccine that will give them every disease known to Medical science to be fatal.
UN Agenda 21 in action!
I get the shot every year and haven’t had the flu in several years.
Yeah. Medicine’s come a long way in 100 years.
Seriously, I chew it up and swallow it. Usually washed down with a glass of wine or beer. You get used to the burning sensation and I actually like the taste.
I almost never get a cold and I've never had one while taking garlic each day. I know they have garlic pills but I can't vouch for those.
Never included in these discussions on the 1918 flu was the abominable state of public health at the time.
The state of health today presents its own problems, combined with an establishment which both profits and enjoys control over a sick populace (the latter another discussion altogether). I’m not going to outline the history here, but snippet can be garnered at the link.
https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/history.html
The reason for not getting the vaccine is because you want to take your chances with getting the flu. The chances of you getting harmed by the flu are much higher than the chances of the vaccine hurting you. 19,000 people don’t die every year from the vaccine. Every possible reason is not getting the vaccine is largely inane.
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to an expert. Dr Andy Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCtcJrxVvTw
That is just so tragic.
What scares me is 100% of people who get vaccines eventually die.
I love garlic! I don’t eat it by itself & raw, but put it in a lot of the food I cook, lightly sauteed. There are some homemade dressings, etc. that have raw garlic & I enjoy it that way, too.
My mom can’t stand the smell of garlic cooking, but if she gets a sore throat, she buys herself a jar of chopped garlic and eats a spoonful of it, with some honey. She stinks like garlic for days, but swears her sore throats go away.
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Yep, eyes glaze over...
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Some are so thick you can’t offend them.
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Ive spoken to survivors in years past, they all were children at the time, all went through hell, all lost friends and family. One of them was 10 years old at the time, and his parents were told to leave some water and close the door on the bedroom and do not open the door for 5 days. And if he was alive at the end of it they were to be lucky. Obviously he survived it but that’s how it went for him . He said his hair was completely white and it took almost a year for his natural hair color to come back. It really did kill many.
Look up the PBS documentary on youtube.. the survivors stories are shocking.
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