Policemen in Seattle wearing masks made by the Red Cross during the influenza epidemic, December 1918. (National Archives)
Remember the pandemic that was going to wipe out humanity? We're still here.
Every few years, a new virus shows up that, experts tell us, can wipe out half the world in six months...and then it doesn't happen.
I could give you several examples. In this piece, let's harken back to SARS, the vague flu lookalike that suddenly showed up in 2003 and was going to decimate the Earth.
When SARS hit, the World Health Organization (WHO) put the world on notice not to fly into Toronto. The city lost billions of tourism dollars.
The fabled "coronavirus," touted as the cause of SARS,
was evil and covert and unique. So said ten WHO labs, which took over all official research on the "plague."
Comment: The WHO has certainly embellished a number of 'possible' pandemics over the modern era, and as Rappoport said, it's what "moves product off the shelves."
History, however, has had its numerous devastating plagues that also seem to have had a 'cosmic connection' - read from this excellent SOTT Focus article
New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection
"Comets are vile stars. Every time they appear in the south, they wipe out the old and establish the new. Fish grow sick, crops fail, Emperors and common people die, and men go to war. The people hate life and don't even want to speak of it." -Li Ch'un Feng, Director, Chinese Imperial Astronomical Bureau, 648, A.D.
As for the 1918 Flu epidemic (represented in the lead photo above), the same cited link provides the following:
Joseph points out that medieval Europe and colonial America are areas where comets were observed to coincide with plagues and disease, adding that Comet Encke, the likely origin of the Tunguska impactor and the 1918 Flu epidemic, also coincide. He writes:
... in 2005, scientists from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., resurrected the 1918 virus from bodies that had been preserved in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska. They soon discovered that a completely new virus had combined with an old virus, exchanging and recombining genes, creating a hybrid that transformed mild strains of the flu virus into forms far more deadly and pathogenic. They also confirmed that the 1918 Spanish flu virus originated in the sky, first infecting birds and then spreading and proliferating in humans.
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