Oink-Oink, Achoo!
We all remember the dark, deadly days of 2003, wearing our breathing masks, struggling for air, dragging the bodies of our loved ones to the incinerators amid the terrible bird flu pandemic. Oh, you don’t remember that? Well, how about Jerry Ford’s Swing Flu Epidemic, which killed a million Americans in ’76?
There is evidence there will be a major flu epidemic this coming fall. The indication is that we will see a return of the 1918 flu virus that is the most virulent form of the flu. In 1918 a half million Americans died. The projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans in 1976.
– F. David Matthews, secretary of health, education, and welfare (Feb., 1976)
Read on for Patrick di Justo’s account of the nation’s last epidemic of swine-flu hysteria.
Update — here’s the Doctor’s diagnosis:
[...] topic. My friend Chad has a great post up regarding the swine flu hysteria, and there is also this funny post from Daniel McCarthy. Just another in a long line of things to be freaked out [...]
Ron Paul is the greatest. And Larry McDonald — may his memory be eternal. The Evil Party routinely called him Dr No.
I remember walking around lower Manhattan in October 2001, the government said no need to worry about the air quality. Yeah right. Always, Always do the opposite of what the gov’t says with regard to health safety.