A reader called as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) Scamdemic was surging to say that she was 12 in 1969 and became ill with the Hong Kong flu. She explained that the Hong Kong flu was much worse than the Wuhan Flu in terms of impact. Maybe, maybe not, but be assured the HK Flu was not used for political fodder by the Greatest Generation against the nation they just successfully defended.
Between 1968 and 1970, the Hong Kong flu killed an estimated 1 to 4 million, with US deaths exceeding 100,000. Today, deaths from the CCP flu surpass a half million with 128,000 of those being Americans. However, there will be an asterisk by the US number due to anyone dying from anything with a detection of Covid being credited to the flu. The asterisk will forever be a footnote for the lack of integrity in the medical profession and the Scamdemic concocted to topple an American president.
The adults responsible for America in 1969 had suffered the Great Depression, survived WW II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars. They lived on little and later risked all they had for freedom. Today’s adults are consumed with staying safe, wearing little masks, sanitizing, and cancelling life to stay at home, confident in conformity.
In the Seinfeld segment about Kramer and the AIDS ribbon Kramer signed-up for the March for AIDS Awareness but was bullied by marchers for refusing to wear the symbolic AIDS ribbon. Kramer protests, “This is America, I don’t have to wear anything I don’t wanna wear!”
His persecutors were of the “I Care” generation where a thought or symbol equals deed done.
Today, some popular irritable clichés are “You are beautiful inside and out,” “Be safe” and “Have a nice day.” Literary critic Paul Fussell, ticked with the send-off “Have a nice day” responded “Thank you, but I have other plans.” Well done, Mr. Fussell.
Veterans alive in 1969 after being dumped by Higgins boats on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944, were hoping to survive for more than a few minutes, vomiting and having a-body-fragments-on-your-face day.
Today, police are forced by health officials to confront people for canoeing, being at the beach, not wearing a mask, and working. Meanwhile ‘bad guys’ are freed to offend again.
In 1969, there were Woodstock and Altamont rock concerts each attended by more than 300,000. Woodstock was a muddy multi-day bash with youngsters sharing body fluids, drugs, food and drink. There were no places to shower, no bottled water or food trucks. No one cared about a flu epidemic brought here by returning troops from Vietnam.
There was no National Pee-Your-Pants Panic Campaign. The New York Times called the flu “the worst in the nation’s history,” but it hardly made the news. Schools operated as normal but for a few where too many teachers became ill.
“Life continued as normal,” said Jeffrey Tucker, the editorial director for the American Institute for Economic Research. “But as with now, no one knew for certain how deadly [the pandemic] would turn out to be. Regardless, people went on with their lives.”
“That generation approached viruses with calm, rationality and intelligence,” he said. “We left disease mitigation to medical professionals, individuals and families, rather than politics, politicians and government.”
How does the Wuhan Flu compare to the Hong Kong flu? Nathaniel Moir, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, said there were few precautions taken during the H3N2 (HK Flu) pandemic other than washing hands and staying home when sick.
“It was like the pandemic hadn’t even happened if you look for it in history books,” he said. “I am still shocked at how differently people addressed — or maybe even ignored it — in 1968 compared to 2020.”
In the 1960s, you learned that getting a virus was good for the immune system and getting sick while young (chickenpox and measles) was easier than when old. Adults living then had witnessed many ailments (mumps, scarlet fever, polio) brought under control.
The idea that a pandemic could be managed with social distancing and public lockdowns is new, said Tucker. It was first suggested in a 2006 study by New Mexico scientist Robert J. Glass, who got the idea from his 14-year-old daughter’s science project.
“Two government doctors, not even epidemiologists” — Richard Hatchett and Carter Mecher, with the George W. Bush administration — “hatched the idea [of using government-enforced social distancing] and hoped to try it out on the next virus.” We are, in effect, Tucker said, part of a grand social experiment.
The CCP flu is the Social Engineering Superbowl for lab - stars Tony Fauci and Deborah Birx. The price of mandatory participation is an altered life.
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