Flu? What Flu?

You may have noticed that twice a year your radio and TV are jammed with flu warnings. This occurs in October and runs until December. Then we get a break until February, when it starts again until April. The Flu is one tough customer is it not?

If you listen to or watch the news, you would have to say it is not only tough, it is an epidemic. Isn't that right?

It is a good thing that we have such hard working chemists on someone's payroll, that can identify and eradicate this “Killer” in one shot. Thank God and the Apostles for the “Miracle of Science.”

But lets really, I mean “Really” look at this thing called Flu.

Question #1: What causes someone to get sick?

Answer: A germ or host of germs loose in the system (your body). The germ or germs are only able to get a foot hold and cause a problem, if the system is weakened due to stresses caused by diet (i.e., life style), emotions, physical strain (such as lack of sleep) and or environmental stresses which eventually lead back to the other stresses mentioned earlier.

The above is the answer to Question # 1.

So how does Flu fit in? Does it also fit in the paragraph above?

Flu is different, it's the FLU! Right? Flu is an open and shut case? Not so fast.

The Flu appears to be a different breed of cat. Or is it? It is an ever changing monster that kills people. Or is it? It is so dangerous, that it is broadcast from the rooftops long before it gets here. Or is it and do they?

Not only are we warned that it is coming, some forward thinking scientists in Liverpool London, even figures out what it is and comes up with a vaccine for it, before it (this Flu strain) comes into existence. Is that possible? If it is, wow, what a guy! This guy fixes a problem before it exists!

If I just lost you there, get up off the floor, close your mouth and stay with me, because it gets better.

How many years of research did it take to cure Polio? Polio was first spotted in 1580 BC and eradicated in 1953. A calculator tells us that it took 3533 YEARS to solve Polio! Even though Cancer has been around at least that long, we are without a cure.

AIDS is still without a cure but, it's been with us give or take 35 years. The list goes on and on. In biology, it takes time to figure out what something is, and how to kill it. The formula for fighting infectious decease is Time + Lab cultures + antibodies harvested + As many unsuccessful attempts as necessary to develop a vaccine = success.

But, somehow TWICE a year, some lab boy not only figures out or predicts how to solve the next big epidemic, he does it without a lab culture to work from. Not only does he blindly solve a problem that does not exist yet, he mass produces the MAGIC VACCINE. He then packages it, and SELLS IT to the public just in time for the BUG to arrive from Asia or Europe (notice it is never from the United States)? How the heck does he do this impossible feat?

He doesn't. It is impossible.

The American public is being lied to and the NEWS MEDIA is the willing aid in this charade.

We are the victim of a government funded ad machine and the overwhelming desire to make profit based on chicanery.

Lies that are mingled with truth are hard to detect. And that is why the flu story is hard to defeat. The flu (whatever it was) is based in history.

HISTORY OF THE FLU. Influenza or the Flu started in March 1918, during World War I. As reports go, a soldier Albert Gitchell, reported to sick call at Camp Funston, Fort Riley Kansas and by days end almost 100 dough boys were sick.

In considering the stress of "The War To End All Wars", is there any doubt why people started getting sick? Is it any wonder why soldiers who were about to ship off to Europe and an uncertain fait get sick? Remember stress breaks down the immune system.

As the story goes those American soldiers fighting to save the world, spread the Flu to the rest of the world. 50 Million people are reported to have died from the flu in 1918. The epidemic should have been called the Kansas Influenza, but in America was called the Spanish Influenza. In the whole of Europe is was called the Asian Flu, how odd.

Nevertheless, after 1918, immigrants from China, Ireland, Japan, Scotland, Australia, Germany, Poland and so on who (had been at sea for weeks) upon exiting their cramped boats had colds and sniffles. We welcomed them by quarantine them often without proper medical help.

From 1918 until about 1945 immigrants got “the treatment.” What better way to treat annoying people here to steal precious jobs?

So how does this lead to today's mass hysteria sales pitch?

In 1957 the news media got a hold of the Flu phenomena (no doubt thanks to some prompting by a pharmaceutical company who would later sell Flu shots).

More than likely, so called YELLOW JOURNALISM pushed forward the idea that the Flu was a living and cyclic phenomena.

That year the American Public was spoon fed a solid diet of the idea that Spanish Influenza from 1918 was not dead, it was only hibernating. The fact that Spanish Influenza originated in Kansas and was about as Spanish as Montana was ignored. The fact that millions of people would have a natural immunity to such a bug was also ignored. It was great theatre.

But what made people sick in 1957? What stress showed up? The following is from the IRS and could be a clue.

After evidence of irregularities in the bureau (Bureau of Internal Revenue) surfaced in 1953, the agency underwent a sweeping reorganization (and became more aggressive), the name was changed to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In 1956 new powers were given to the IRS as per TREASURY DIRECTIVE 15-42, which allowed the IRS via an audit to "collect" up to $500,000.00 of your property if they found you to had "cheated".

If you think that taxes and tax season are not stressful consider what was behind the Boston Tea party.

Regardless of what stress the IRS exerted, so convincing was the 1957 Flu pitch, a type of mass hysteria developed.

NBC radio reported that scientists (who were probably worried about the IRS) had been dispatched to the Norwegian Island of Spitzbergen. There they were exhuming bodies of Flu victims (from 1918) buried in permanently frozen ground (called permafrost). The scientists had hopes of finding genetic material that could be used to “Fight” this long vanquished enemy.

By the way, in England the 1957 Spanish Flu was again called the Asian Flu. Again, how odd.

Apparently, to be really dangerous, like a hurricane, the Flu needs to travel over an ocean. Or just needs to come from a very far off place where a different language is spoken. Geographically, Spain is to close to England which is why their flu is called the Asian Flu.

Nevertheless, the Stress season or flu season of 1957 claimed thousands of lives.

If the flu is real and the paragraphs above are all hogwash, why are we not all dead right now? Why aren't we all dead right now when a single germ can kill us?

The answer came at the beginning of the article. Our immune system is not weak enough. If it was, your body carries enough germs right now, to kill you 300 times over.

One final note. Why does flu season come in October and February? As mentioned before February is the start of Tax season and is a stressful time.

October is the gateway to the holidays. Holidays lead to big expenditures and family and no time and no money and too many gifts to buy and no parking etc. All of that leads right to tax season. STRESS? Yes, stress.

Notice those around you who never get sick. They will tend to be those who have less stress or handle stress better.

Be well.