That doesn't argue against deaths being driven by the virus rather than aspirin, which probably wasn't used on poor and malnourished in India. You also have report after report in 1918 of remote islands where native adults almost all died out; but Western adults fared better (because there was more pre-existing experience / immunity to f…
That doesn't argue against deaths being driven by the virus rather than aspirin, which probably wasn't used on poor and malnourished in India. You also have report after report in 1918 of remote islands where native adults almost all died out; but Western adults fared better (because there was more pre-existing experience / immunity to flu).
Another feature remarked upon at the time is that people who took to bed when ill fared better than those who tried to work through it, though there aren't any convincing stats of death by occupation to supplement this one. But you would expect anecdotal and observational reports in the opposite direction if treatment were driving deaths.
It was the experimental bacterial vaccines given to the soldiers, and later pushed on the public when the soldiers were returning home, telling them it was to protect them from diseases being brought back from overseas.
1920
Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated - VacTruth
"American Indians seem to have had an especially high mortality. During the six month period from Oct. 1, 1918, to March 31, 1919, more than 2 per cent of the total Indian population died of influenza (6,270 in 304,854). This is about four times as great as the general mortality rate for the white population of the United States (2,057 : 527). The indicated case fatality was 8:5 per cent. The indicated attack rate - 242 per thousand is not very high, and no doubt is based on incomplete reports.
Among the Indian population of Saskatchewan, Canada (numbering 7,579), the case fatality was 11.2 and the mortality rate 647. The Indians throughout Canada seem to have been severely stricken. In Manitoba their mortality rate was more than 5,000 (750 deaths in a population of 14,179). In the province of Keewatin, 12 per cent of the Indians on the reservation are stated to have died from influenza. On Christian Island, Georgian Bay, out of a population of 275, forty-eight died of influenza.
In the Union of South Africa (Frost and Sydenstricker 1919b) the case fatality was 2.57 per cent in the European population ; 5.90 in the other than European races. The colored races there in contact with the whites appear to have had a higher attack rate (460 : 321 per thousand), as well as a high case fatality. This double susceptibility is reflected in a much higher death rate per thousand (Europeans, 8.27; other than Europeans, 27.19).
Interesting statements have been made by Crampton (1922) concerning racial differences in the Pacific Islands. It is said that at Tahiti the deaths among the pure blooded natives amounted to 15 to 25 per cent, among the half castes a distinctly smaller proportion, and among the whites “very few.”"
Wow, these experimental soldier vaxxes sure seem to slam down pretty hard on the natives...
I just finished a book about the Spanish flu, Pale Rider. Pretty interesting although I found myself having to ignore the author's unquestioning faith in vaccination in general. Native peoples in Alaska, as you say, were very hard hit. There were one or two small villages that were completely wiped out.
Especially back then, people were inclined to ascribe any differences racially. I think cultural prior exposure to related microbes is a much better explanation.
It is, and it strongly supports the interpretation that it was a return of a previously circulating version of influenza A, i.e. H1, which was active after 1847 but died out gradually - it would have died out in remote places years or decades before bigger countries. Ethnic trends in non-remote places are more ambiguous, so there were certainly other confounders; but overall a mountain of evidence that puts "soldier vaxxes" in fantasy territory.
That doesn't argue against deaths being driven by the virus rather than aspirin, which probably wasn't used on poor and malnourished in India. You also have report after report in 1918 of remote islands where native adults almost all died out; but Western adults fared better (because there was more pre-existing experience / immunity to flu).
Another feature remarked upon at the time is that people who took to bed when ill fared better than those who tried to work through it, though there aren't any convincing stats of death by occupation to supplement this one. But you would expect anecdotal and observational reports in the opposite direction if treatment were driving deaths.
It was the experimental bacterial vaccines given to the soldiers, and later pushed on the public when the soldiers were returning home, telling them it was to protect them from diseases being brought back from overseas.
1920
Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated - VacTruth
https://vactruth.com/download/vaccination_exposed.pdf
1918 "Spanish Flu" - Only the Vaccinated Died...
http://rightsfreedoms.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/the-1918-spanish-flu-only-the-vaccinated-died/
"American Indians seem to have had an especially high mortality. During the six month period from Oct. 1, 1918, to March 31, 1919, more than 2 per cent of the total Indian population died of influenza (6,270 in 304,854). This is about four times as great as the general mortality rate for the white population of the United States (2,057 : 527). The indicated case fatality was 8:5 per cent. The indicated attack rate - 242 per thousand is not very high, and no doubt is based on incomplete reports.
Among the Indian population of Saskatchewan, Canada (numbering 7,579), the case fatality was 11.2 and the mortality rate 647. The Indians throughout Canada seem to have been severely stricken. In Manitoba their mortality rate was more than 5,000 (750 deaths in a population of 14,179). In the province of Keewatin, 12 per cent of the Indians on the reservation are stated to have died from influenza. On Christian Island, Georgian Bay, out of a population of 275, forty-eight died of influenza.
In the Union of South Africa (Frost and Sydenstricker 1919b) the case fatality was 2.57 per cent in the European population ; 5.90 in the other than European races. The colored races there in contact with the whites appear to have had a higher attack rate (460 : 321 per thousand), as well as a high case fatality. This double susceptibility is reflected in a much higher death rate per thousand (Europeans, 8.27; other than Europeans, 27.19).
Interesting statements have been made by Crampton (1922) concerning racial differences in the Pacific Islands. It is said that at Tahiti the deaths among the pure blooded natives amounted to 15 to 25 per cent, among the half castes a distinctly smaller proportion, and among the whites “very few.”"
Wow, these experimental soldier vaxxes sure seem to slam down pretty hard on the natives...
I just finished a book about the Spanish flu, Pale Rider. Pretty interesting although I found myself having to ignore the author's unquestioning faith in vaccination in general. Native peoples in Alaska, as you say, were very hard hit. There were one or two small villages that were completely wiped out.
Especially back then, people were inclined to ascribe any differences racially. I think cultural prior exposure to related microbes is a much better explanation.
It is, and it strongly supports the interpretation that it was a return of a previously circulating version of influenza A, i.e. H1, which was active after 1847 but died out gradually - it would have died out in remote places years or decades before bigger countries. Ethnic trends in non-remote places are more ambiguous, so there were certainly other confounders; but overall a mountain of evidence that puts "soldier vaxxes" in fantasy territory.