Posted on 10/30/2021 12:09:21 PM PDT by Trillian
Interesting old news video involving the cdc.
I was in high school in ‘76. I only remember the name, no panic or news.
I was just a boy that year, delivering newspapers for about $15 a week - good money back then for an 8th grader.
I was in the Army then, don't recall getting the shot but I'm sure I had to get one.
the swine, and then bird flu were trial runs to see how scared the public woudl get- and how complaint they would be- the dems didn’t quite dare force people to get vaccines back then- but now they don’t care- and will milk this current pandemic for all it’s worth, with more to come-
I remember the bird flu one pretty well (i remember the swine flu one- but it wasn’t as hyped as bird flu if i recall correct?)- They tried to frighten everyone with constant “It’s coming, hunker down” articles and news reports- it was nonstop- but not enough people ‘took it seriously’ according to the left for them to try their nonsense lockdowns and mask requirements-
The left tried this before- in 1918- They tried to claim ‘many complied’ but i doubt ‘many’ did
May 6, 2020
When Mask-Wearing Rules in the 1918 Pandemic Faced Resistance
Most people complied, but some resisted (or poked holes in their masks to smoke).
https://www.history.com/news/1918-spanish-flu-mask-wearing-resistance
The left have been trying ever since then to force folks to comply- they finally got their wish with covid
I was in boot camp at Lackland AFB in Texas in September of that year. They made us all take the jab and a lot of people got sick as a result, including me. I was in the infirmary for a week.
Never knew they turned out to be dangerous.
There’s a lot to be said for the pre-Internet days.
That is the year i finished my navy c school in Mare Island, and landed on the USS Nimitz on the way to the USS South Carolina. Do not remmember much about flu.
Instilling permanent fear in the populace was a lot harder when all you had was Time Magazine, Newsweek, the New York Times, three major TV networks, and the communists hadn’t taken over the government yet. The 24/7 news cycle of CNN, et al hadn’t been invented yet, either, with their insatiable need to keep pumping endless sludge out.
I remember Gerald Ford screeching about Swine Flu endlessly.
Very true- they sure did try though- I’m sure stores and bars and places of businessmen all got wind of it and made it mandatory- fearing gov fines if they didn’t enforce it- but yeah, probably took awhile to get the news around, and for the sheeple that did comply to comply-
If you read the article in the link i posted- you will see they mandated the use of cotton gauze as masks- which were nearly 100% ineffective at stopping anything- Yet mandate they did- just like today-
It’s scary how much trust America had for those liars on TV, though.
I was a only child, when it dawned on me that Walter always told the news of the day out of Israel, backwards. Only in the last seconds would we see the burned out bus full of children that had started the day off.
I don’;t remember Ford too much- i wasn’t into politics as much back then- too busy back then notice- but i remember the bird flu hype- everyone on the left was pulling their hair out about it- claiming it was gonna spread like wildfire because it was carried by migratory birds-
I was on active duty at Pease AFB,New Hampshire in 1976.At that time I was a member of the 509th Security Police Squadron of the Strategic Air Command.
That December we were required to get the Swine Flu Injection. I got my Injection about a half hour before going on duty as a Patrol Dog handler and New Hampshire iss damned cold during December.
Anyway I went on duty and about 3 hours later I became Feverish,Burning up,dressed in a Cold weather Parka and all of the other gear I had to carry or wear.
I worked my entire shift burning up while freezing because of the weather.
When I got off Duty I went back to the Dormitory where I slept for 12 Hours. By then the Fever was starting to break.
At that time I swore to myself that I would Never,ever take another Government mandated vaccine. I still have not taken the ChiCom virus Vaccine. Crazy Joe Biden can kiss this veterans rear-end.
I remember the rush to get inoculations for the elderly. More old people died standing in line waiting for the shot than came down with the Flu.
I believe less than a dozen people actually came down with the flu and I don’t believe anyone died.
A physician at that time said the people in 1918 who died from the flu actually died of opportunistic pneumonia, something we now had antibiotics for.
Anyone remember the hype of VEE? Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis back around 1963? It affected horses and some people came down with it causing a near panic.
My sister was the head nurse at a community health center in 1976. They gave out approximately 3500 swine flu shots
Not one of the nurses, doctors or other employees at the center got the shot
I was working in South America and Asia in 1976, so I didn’t hear any of it!
I received the Swine Flu Vaccine about 1980.
Mandatory for all Soldiers.
Put me in bed for a week.
Army made me receive the Anthrax Vaccine.
Literally killed me and put me in the hospital for a week.
Took the Covid Vaccine because my wife was terrified.
In the ICU for a week.
Wife wanted me to get Covid booster.
I told her to go get her pistol and just shoot me. It would be quicker.
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