‘Insurmountable Chaos’ Can Begin Like This: ‘Just One Cough And You Can Have A Catastrophic Chain Of Transmission’
– 1918 ‘Mother Of All Pandemics’ Had One Doctor Say: ‘Civilization Could Have Disappeared Within A Few More Weeks’
By Stefan Stanford
AllNewsPipeline.com
October 1, 2018
According to this new story over at City Lab, the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 was ‘the mother of all pandemics’ that swept across America and the world in three waves, the first hitting New York city during the spring when residents and doctors thought it was only another round of seasonal flu. While summer arrived with very few casualties, leaving doctors and residents there forgetting all about the spring outbreak, by the time the 2nd wave arrived in September, a process had begun that would leave between 50 and 100 million around the world dead, with October of 1918 one of the deadliest months in the history of our planet.
As their story reported, September 15th of 1918 marked a frightening turning point after NY city reported their first death from Spanish flu, one of more than 33,000 to eventually die from it in the city, and their story also pointed out why New York had become the perfect environment for such a deadly flu to carry out its wrath: “In the densely packed metropolis with 5 million people—then the largest population of any city—large families crowded inside small homes, and children and workers crammed inside schools, workshops, and into the subway.”
And while New York, America and the entire world are much more populated in 2018 than they were in 1918, and much more closely linked with millions of people traveling on airlines between cities and countries every day, the speed at which the virus killed was summed up perfectly by one Victor Vaughan, a doctor within the US Army, who made the following dire prediction according to John Barry, author of the book “The Great Influenza”: “Civilization could have disappeared within a few more weeks.”
n this new story over at USA Today that Steve Quayle linked to on his website Sunday morning, they report upon the end of September being the anniversary of the 1918 Spanish flu which killed more than twice the amount of people around the world in 24 months than died in 4+ years of World War 1, while warning that everyone agrees such a deadly outbreak will surely one day happen again.
Reporting that in the month of October of 1918 alone, an unthinkable 100,000 Americans died, many of them young and healthy adults in the prime of their lives, the first sentence of the USA Today story held back no punches: “One hundred years ago, death came with astonishing speed and horrifying agony.”
As we had reported on ANP back on September 7th, according to one doctor who treated patients during the sudden pandemic outbreak, “it killed violently, and struck down the most healthy people suddenly, as if they had been shot”. And as we also reported within that story, back in 2005, the US government published the entire genome of the 1918 Spanish flu online. From that story:
All the way back on September 7th of 2005, the NY Times published a story titled simply “Recipe For Destruction” within which the authors began: AFTER a decade of painstaking research, federal and university scientists have reconstructed the 1918 influenza virus that killed 50 million people worldwide (ANP: Current estimates are that up to 100 million died). Like the flu viruses (then in 2005) raising alarm bells in Asia, the 1918 virus was a bird flu that jumped directly to humans, the scientists reported. To shed light on how the virus evolved, the United States Department of Health and Human Services published the full genome of the 1918 influenza virus on the Internet in the GenBank database.
With the story authors warning then how extremely foolish it was for the US government to publish the genome online as they essentially permitted the design for a weapon of mass destruction to be published for anyone to see and use, their story then went on to explain why doing so could lead straight to catastrophe with labs around the world having the ability to culture it.:
No responsible scientist would advocate publishing precise designs for an atomic bomb, and in two ways revealing the sequence for the flu virus is even more dangerous.
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