There are multiple lines of evidence to dispute the classic viral disease paradigm, including historical records, biological evidence (or lack thereof) and clinical
“experiments” according to Dr Lee Merritt. Yet, while this is true, there are many self professed “awake” individuals who although are willing to accept that we have
been continually lied to on a grand scale to enable our enslavement, will not open their minds even to the possibility that one of those lies has been the unproven
viral disease paradigm.

Orthopaedic surgeon and past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr Merritt writes “I hear it all the time. From Physicians, “How can
you say viruses don’t exist? I treat people with viral illness all the time.” Or from patients, “My whole family got really sick—so there must be viruses!” Dr Merritt adds
“Let’s be clear. There is disease, as in “Dis-Ease”. People get sick and some die of the sickness. And I can admit to the ability of harvesting tissue from one animal
and injecting it into another species and causing disease– as Judy Mikovits describes it—“infection by injection”. But that does not prove the existence of invisible,
sub-microscopic ‘unicorns’ that fly from one person’s nose to another as the CAUSE of that disease.

In this article Dr. Merritt (https://www.drleemerritt.com/) discusses the largest clinical case study of all time—the 1918 worldwide influenza outbreak. According to a 1920 Harvard historical document, 5000 people in Boston died from the Pandemic of 1918, and the same article reported that Boston was the third largest city death count in America.¹ This fact also leads one to again question the death count of 500,000 in the US. Kate Daly, a former Fox newscaster and current radio show host researched news archives about the 1918 Pandemic, and discovered that like a giant whispering game, over the last century, the numbers of the dead reported in newspapers consistently rose. Original reports of dead are very small in the US county by county adding up to about 100,000. But by 1920, they were reporting 500,000 dead in the US. Then 10 million dead (1941), 20 million (1975), 38 million (2005) and now the CDC tells us 50 million died globally from the Spanish Flu.

As I took up the news archive search, I very quickly recognized that newspapers of the early 20 Century were used for the same propaganda we suffer today. We may think that only news in the digital age is controlled by a few major corporate voices, but I found, from 1917-1922, papers from all over America had identical articles under different banners. It is somewhat humorous, but also confirmatory of the controlled nature of the press that, in the days of linotype, when each story was hand produced using lead printing letters, spelling errors were different, but the exact verbiage was used in “small town newspapers” all over the country. The video at this link may ring a bell – https://youtu.be/yshJn7lgVsY?si=FY57p52s1V3Ea-d7 .

Why the pandemic was called the ‘Spanish flu’ is unclear. The disease did not start in Spain, but rather, around Fort Riley Kansas which was a training base for the First World War. Army recruits at the base were becoming ill, and many were dying of a strange pulmonic disorder associated with fever, severe fatigue, and bloody
discharge. We have numerous sources of direct history of the event—memory books that were written by families, the diary and later books of Dr. Eleanora McBean who volunteered with her family to provide care to the recruits, the autopsy results of Colonel William Welch and pathologists from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, pharmaceutical history, Kansas historical Archives, Nany and Public Health Service Archives, and numerous other eyewitness accounts. Unlike today, the US Public Health Service made an honest attempt to understand transmission of the illness.

They enlisted volunteers who leaned over the dying without touching them, putting their mouths close to the mouths of the sick, and breathing in their exhalations. The volunteers did not become ill. Then, they had sick and dying people cough on the volunteers. They swabbed mucus and nasal secretions from the sick and
stuffed it into the noses and throats of the well. In the days before antibiotics, they even spun down the secretions of the dying and injected this solution into the well
volunteers. But no matter what they did, they could not transfer this new disease to the healthy volunteers. In actual numbers, zero out of 118 well volunteers
became sick. From the Navy Archives, “The volunteers were repeatedly exposed to hospital patients exhibiting influenza-like symptoms in an attempt to make them contract the disease. Although the 118 men failed to develop influenza, they all received full pardons in recognition of their participation.^{”2 3}

Of note, the diagnosis “neurasthenia” was coined in 1867 to describe an illness of nervousness, listlessness, palpitations, depression and sometimes focal paralysis.  It was noticed that the disorder clustered around telegraph line installers, switch board operators, and railroad workers (telegram lines were strung along the rail lines) and thus neurasthenia became known as Telegrapher’s Disease. In fact, in 1907, the Bell Telephone switchboard operators in Toronto went on strike for better working conditions. This was documented in a Royal Commission study in Canada,  headed by a former Prime Minister.  And “Telegrapher’s Paralysis” was reported by a physician in France. And the punch line?  

In Oct 1917,  at the request of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, K.S.A.C. instituted a course in wireless telegraphy. The Army Recruits at Ft. Riley, Kansas were training to be Telegraph operators for WWI. Before you think that electromagnetic exposure is too far-fetched as an explanation, it was discovered that making a long twist in the copper wire for the telegram lines lessened the symptoms of the neurasthenia experienced by people working under the lines.  And the really convincing bit of evidence came from the unexpected realm of astronomy. In the 1970s, an astronomer R.E Hope-Simpson, and a mathematician from the University of Wales by the name of F. Hoyle demonstrated that influenza outbreaks occurred nearly simultaneously around the world in association with increased solar activity– sunspots flares, etc.

Ken Tapping,– a Canadian Astronomer in 2001 also made the observation that in years 1700 to 1979, including 150 years prior to the era of Telegraphy, Influenza outbreaks occurred one to three decades apart, and coincide perfectly with peaks of solar magnetic activity.  As documented in Dr. Arthur Furstenberg’s book The Invisible Rainbow an infectious agent does not account for near simultaneous transmission of disease around the globe in an age before air transport.  Reports based on ships logs reveal that, in the age of “wooden ships and iron men”, the disease would simultaneously sweep over multiple ships widely dispersed at sea—ships that had not had contact with land or with other ships. And as a 2016 article by Qu and Gao et al. “Sunspot Activity, Influenza and Ebola Outbreak Connection” points out, influenza may not be the only disease where our ideas of transmission may be wrong. (Consider this when the issues of 5G and Covid keeps resurfacing.)

The biology/physiology of this effect is at least partly understood. Metabolism depends on an electron transfer chain within the mitochondria—intracellular organelles which take the results of metabolism and convert it energy within each living cell. The flow of electrons can be altered with the application of a sudden electromagnetic field.  Additionally, the rate at which the EMF is introduced matters.  In medicine, we once were taught “Cannon’s Law of the Body” that the body responds to rate of change not just absolutes. We are physiologically better able to adapt to a new environment if it is applied slowly. So, in the 1918 Ft. Riley outbreak, some recruits—not previously exposed to electricity– were suddenly surrounded by miles of copper wire transmitting signals that were typed out at discordant 7.2 Hz frequency, just shy of the natural Schumann earth resonance of 7.83 Hz. It was observed  by  doctors stationed at the army camps during the autumn 1918 wave of influenza, that those young men who were dying, more often than not, big, were the big brawny country boys, not the pale, scrawny city boys. This makes sense when you consider that the city kids had already been slowly adapted to the electrification of their cities.

Prior to 1900, medical studies of Telegrapher’s disease and Neurasthenia actually showed that people may have had a miserable anxiety ridden existence, but it did not shorten their life span—in fact life span may have been slightly extended.  So, what accounted for the sudden mass death in the camp?   There were at least two other factors contributing to the Pandemic death count that are very reminiscent of COVID deaths today.  

In 1918, the Bayer Company, a subsidiary of IG Farben [owned by the Rockefellers] had just lost their patent on Aspirin, a drug that German scientists accidentally discovered lowered fever.  So, the company waged a PR campaign to convince doctors via the AMA and the newly organized medical education establishment that lowering temperature with Aspirin, was a great idea for recovery from disease!  Today, we have considerable data from India on the treatment of Tuberculosis and Polio, that fever is beneficial to resolving disease. Lowering temperature by chemical means extended the active phase of disease and resulted in more paralysis and increased mortality. But that information was not available in 1918 (and is still ignored by most physicians today). Nor did physicians of 1918 understand the risk of bleeding with higher dosing of Aspirin. Diarists at the time report seeing doctors giving handfuls of aspirin to reduce the fever in recruits.  And, in confirmation, it was noted by physicians in 1918 that as the disease progressed, victims began bleeding from the nose, and mouth. Many deaths occurred with hemorrhagic lungs—lungs filled with blood, not pus.

Finally, and probably the most damaging, yet debated, factor was this: WWI was the first conflict in which our military were given multiple (and experimental) vaccines. Dr. Frederick L. Gates was from not one but multiple Ivy League Schools, beginning at the U. of Chicago and transferring to Yale where he was awarded the Andrew D. White award. (White was a member of the Order of Skull and Bones). Gates subsequently graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1913, and in 1917 when America entered the war, volunteered for the Army Medical Corps.  He was commissioned as a First Lieutenant. Surprisingly, for a newly minted medical officer, Gates was assigned to duty on the Rockefeller Institute staff, likely due to his father Frederick Taylor Gates being a personal assistant to John D. Rockefeller. Gates senior is credited with Rockefeller’s getting involved in organized medicine.  In 1901, Gates Senior designed the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) of which he was board president. He then designed the Rockefeller Foundation, becoming a trustee upon its creation in 1913.”

According to his memorial biography, Dr. Frederick L. Gates “gave lectures to military groups (at the Rockefeller Institute) … was also assigned to visit training camps, in the interest of preventive medicine, and traveled widely”. What they don’t mention is his role as primary investigator on the vaccinations given at Ft. Riley, Kansas prior to the outbreak of disease. On May 25, 1917 an Army Medical School had been established at Ft. Riley, Kansas.  Shortly thereafter, in October 1917, 525 cases of Typhoid Fever occurred in Kansas, and the State Board of Health gave 9,000 “free shots”. Three months later, an outbreak of “meningitis” occurred. The US Navy and Army estimated that 40 percent and 36 percent of their servicemen had been affected. (It is important to note that an “outbreak” of meningitis usually involves one or two people. To have over 30% of personnel affected is totally outside the norm for reported outbreaks of meningitis.) The response again was to administer more crude home-made meningitis vaccines, beginning in January 1918 and continuing into February 1918. 

From the Kansas historical society records:

“Following an outbreak of epidemic meningitis at Camp Funston, Kansas, in October and November, 1917, a series of anti-meningitis vaccinations was undertaken on volunteer subjects from the camp. Major E. H. Schorer, Chief of the Laboratory Section at the adjacent Base Hospital at Fort Riley, offered every facility at his command and cooperated in the laboratory work connected with the vaccinations… In the camp, under the direction of the Division Surgeon, Lieutenant Colonel J. L. Shepard, a preliminary series of vaccinations on a relatively small number of volunteers served to determine the appropriate doses and the resultant local and general reactions. Following this, the vaccine was offered by the Division Surgeon to the camp at large, and “given by the regimental surgeons to all who wished to take it.” 

This excerpt from Dr. Gates’ paper on the research submitted for publication in 1918 gives you a flavor of the state of vaccination art and his involvement at that time:

“The vaccine used was made in the laboratory of The Rockefeller Institute. 16-hour growths on 1 per cent glucose agar in Blake bottles were washed off with isotonic salt solution, like strains pooled, and the concentrated suspensions immediately heated to 65°C. for 30 minutes to kill the cocci and inactivate the autolytic ferment…Accordingly, the vaccinations were begun with the injection of 500 million cocci, and this initial dose was increased in successive groups by 250 or 500 million until it had reached 2,000 million. For the second and third doses in each group, the first dose was usually multiplied by two and by four…About half of those vaccinated, whose third injection was due after February 4, 1918, were given a final injection of 4,000 million, on account of the occurrence of several fairly severe reactions from the larger dose among medical officers at Fort Riley. In some regiments the vaccinations had been completed before February 5.”

At the same time Kansas military bases were being vaccinated, schools were, for the first time, seriously mandating vaccines for attendance in Kansas.  From the Lawrence Daily Journal World, 3 Jan. 1918: A summary of the time course of the 1918 Pandemic:

• May 25, 1917,  an Army Medical School had been established at Ft. Riley, Kansas.  
• [Oct 1917,  at the request of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, K.S.A.C. instituted a course in wireless telegraphy – as above]
• [There is a peak in sunspot activity around 1917-18]
• October, 1917, 525 cases of Typhoid Fever occurred in Kansas and the State Board of Health gives 9,000 “free shots”.
• October and November, 1917, Meningitis breaks out and a second round of vaccines—this time for Meningitis—was given.
• January/February of 2018, Military recruits and school children, were required to have a variety of crude vaccines partially concocted at the time of inoculation.
• March 1918, Scarlet Fever epidemics were reported from Cowley, Butler, Dickinson and Leavenworth counties.
• March 1918, five students at the (Native American) Haskell Institute 95 miles from Ft. Riley had died and 457 were ill with a disease called “strep-grip.”  
• September 1918, the disease still was not front-page news.  Throughout this time, there were more concerns over wheat shortages, Anti-German discrimination, and conscientious objectors to the war.
• October, 1918, three hundred cases of what was now being called “Influenza” was being reported in the state. Hays was hardest hit with 200 cases yet still reported only several deaths.  By the middle of October,  1918, Kansas Governor Capper issued a state-wide closing order, effective for one week, in an effort to halt the flu epidemic.  Over 7,000 cases had been reported statewide. Even accounting for underreporting this does not suggest a pandemic of epic proportion. Also on October 25, 1918, my grandfather recorded in his diary that relatives arrived from Canada and a few days later the town of 1200 people was put on quarantine.
• 2 November, 1918, The State Board of Health in Kansas lifted the influenza closing order.  

This graph shows the very acute time course of influenza deaths in 1918, beginning about 6 months after the vaccinations took place, and going away three months later—never to return. 

Although we have seasonal illness we call Influenza, and occasionally Influenza breaks out worldwide as it has done for centuries, never since 1918 have we seen this unusually lethal type of outbreak until 2019 and the COVID “Pandemic”. What is discounted, forgotten, or purposely ignored are the observations of Dr. Eleanora McBean who actually witnessed the outbreak at Ft. Riley, Kansas, and as a child helped her family care for sick soldiers and community members. Writing later, as a physician, she reported that the only deaths were in the vaccinated. Her family was exposed to diseased people daily, along with others who volunteered to care for the sick.  They were unvaccinated and as people were dying around them, according to Dr. McBean they “didn’t even get the sniffles”.  

Most of the historical search for this article focused on Kansas because it is generally cited as ground zero for the “Great Pandemic”. Looking about America, the disease disproportionately hit cities, and concentrations of military or other people living together in dormitories or Indian Reservations. These people were mandated to have vaccines, or were likely to have been told by their local authorities to do so. Neither the numbers cited by any individual city or locale, nor by the counties seem to add to the gross numbers we hear today. It is apparent that in a few places, an unusual number of folks became unusually ill.  These places—such as Fort Riley and Boston generated a mythos that was remembered by the medical establishment more than the public at large. People who developed neurasthenia, in the absence of vaccination, could become symptomatic, but did not develop the severe pulmonary symptoms and were found in some studies to live longer than average. But propaganda seems to have been deployed consciously via the newspapers from 1920 to today regarding the causes of the disease of 1918.  

Looking at the totality of the evidence, the Pandemic of 1918 was probably not a communicable disease, but a disease of communicable technologies.  Americans went to Europe and we took our Telegram equipment and vaccines with us for sale on the European market. When the soldiers were returning home, the public was convinced through aggressive marketing campaigns to get vaccinated because the troops were returning from Europe with “Disease”. The vaccine timing explains the huge spike of disease and death during a narrow time range following a rapid multiple vaccination rollout. The later prolonged, less dramatic occurrences of death followed a more sluggish civilian adoption of the vaccine program. 

The Pandemic of 1918 as the prototype of infectious transmissible worldwide disease is based  on skewed history, propaganda, and assumptions, not proof.  This underscores the need today for true systematic scientific inquiry where we examine the basics and the basis of our views of biology and disease–not just an “Epidemiologic” mapping of sick people, coupled with preconceived notions.

1. https://info.primarycare.hms.harvard.edu/review/1918-influenza-and-covid19 (https://info.primarycare.hms.harvard.edu/review/1918-influenza-and-covid19) ↩︎
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3. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/conversation-with-jamie-andrews-the
   Disease contagion studies; Milton J. Rosenau, Director of US Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory 1899-1909]
   They did actually give people what they considered to be virus directly up the nose. In some of the older ones, at the turn of the 20th century, such as the [Milton J.] Rosenau studies which were conducted by the US Navy, where they took people who were displaying the symptoms or basically very unwell with what they
   considered to be the Spanish flu and they took all of their fluids, the BALF [bronchoalveolar lavage fluid], the mucus, the sputum, and did everything that they could to healthy people to try and infect them. And lo and behold, this was a real kind of change for me in my life, was realizing that they all failed. ↩︎