The Great Influenza: The Mexican Flu of 2009

As the world forgets about the recent "SWINE FLU" or the "MEXICAN FLU" (as I like to call it.) Or, for the sake of mentally disturbed liberal freaks who think it politically correct to change the name to "H1N1 Virus," I would like to draw your attention to a sobering historical fact: The Great Influenza of 1918, otherwise known as "The Spanish Flu."



In the Spring of 1918, while engaged in WW1, a mysterious form of the flu began to infect many Americans. As history shows it appeared as a relatively benign form of the flu, affecting those only in close quarters and lasting for a short time. Very few, if any, deaths were associated with the 'First Wave' of infections. Poor record keeping and unattainable data has prevented us from knowing for sure. But, what is known, is that in the fall of 1918, the 'Great Influenza' came back with a vengeance; infecting tens of millions and killing, as some experts say, up to 50 million people worldwide. Rumors and theories began to swarm about the nature and the cause of the pandemic, some theorizing it was result of 'Germ Warfare' created by the Germans.


Gina Kolata in her book ,"Flu'''The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It,' said the following; "...No one knows for sure where the 1918 flu came from or how it turned into such a killer strain. All that is known is that it began as an ordinary flu but then it changed. It infected people in the spring of 1918, sickening its victims for about three days with chills and fever, but rarely killing them. Then it disappeared, returning in the fall with the power of a juggernaut. In retrospect, medical experts talk of the two waves of the 1918 flu. The first was banal, and easily forgotten. No one mentioned plagues or germ warfare when the influenza epidemic first arrived. But when it came back, in the second wave, it had become something monstrous, bearing little resemblance to what is ordinarily thought of as the flu..."




Does this sound familiar? Could we be experiencing another form of "The Spanish Flu?" The similarities are striking, but only time will tell us, because, God knows the Government wont!!!!