Today's pandemic response is eerily similar to the smallpox pandemic response

substack.com ^ | 2/13/2022 | Steve KIrsch

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Do you remember how we got out of the mandates for smallpox? Most of my readers won't remember it, probably because it happened over 135 years ago. Here's the amazing story of what happened.

Steve Kirsch

Image from article - historical black and white protest against compulsory vaccination

This insight comes from one of my readers, A Midwestern Doctor who Writes A’s Newsletter (which was just launched 3 hours ago).

In turn, he got it from the amazing book “Dissolving Illusions” by Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk which describes the history of vaccines, public health, and the anti-vax movement (which started in the 1700s).

I wanted to share it with all of you because what happened over 135 years ago is very similar to what is happening now.

How they solved it 135 years ago

The solution then was not trying to convince decision makers using rational scientific arguments. It was a mass public protest that resulted in the abandonment of what the “experts” were saying to do and adoption of new methods that worked that were opposed by the medical community.

Here’s what A Midwestern Doctor wrote in the comments of my last article:

What is currently happening with the COVID mandates and protests is nearly identical to what happened 135 years ago with the smallpox vaccine campaigns, where the vaccination made smallpox epidemics worse, the vaccines killed a lot of people, the public refused them and governments responded by harsher and harsher mandatory vaccination laws.

Eventually one of the largest protests of the century broke out in 1885, vaccine mandates were scrapped in one area in favor of alternative management of smallpox, and this is what actually ended smallpox.

My belief is that this is a very important message to get out to the current protest movement and will do a lot of good if it does.

I wrote a 10 page concise but detailed and referenced summary of everything that happened I want to be made available (but I do not want credit for).

The entire summary can be found here and I would greatly appreciate it if you could bring awareness to this issue.

Your wish has been granted. I think we can all learn from what has worked before. You never know what will finally end up resolving this situation.

Will it be the truckers? Whistleblowers from inside the CDC, FDA, NIH, drug companies? Will it be embalmers speaking out? Will it be corruption of the DMED data? The life insurance companies figuring it out? Tech Review setting up a debate between our experts vs. Harvard and MIT experts? Tony Fauci finally admitting he screwed up by funding a deadly virus, pushing a deadly vaccine, and suppressing early treatments that worked? (ok, that last one was a joke).

There are a lot of possibilities here.

Here is the key paragraph right at the start if you are short on time:

Eventually, one of the largest protests of the century occurred in 1885 in Leicester (an English city). Leicester‘s government was replaced, mandatory vaccination abolished, and public health measures rejected by the medical community were implemented. These measures were highly successful, and once adopted globally ended the smallpox epidemic, something most erroneously believed arose from vaccination.

In short, what worked was a mass protest + implementing new health measures that were opposed by the medical community. When these measures worked, most people believed it was the vaccine that finally saved everyone.

An amazing number of parallels with what happened 135 years ago

As you read what happened 135 years ago, you’re going to be absolutely stunned by the similarities with what is happening today.

Here is one possible explanation for this:

Back then, vaccination made things worse so they doubled down on the intervention and required it for people. The result: even worse results. Nobody ever figured out the more you vaccinate, the worse things got:

By the end of 1868, more than 95 percent of the inhabitants of Chicago had been vaccinated. After the Great Fire of 1871 (it leveled the city), strict vaccine laws were passed, and vaccination was made a condition of receiving relief supplies. Chicago was then hit with a devastating smallpox epidemic in 1872 where over 2000 persons contracted smallpox, with over 25% dying, and the fatality rate among children under 5 being the highest ever recorded.

Isn’t THAT interesting?

Here’s another snippet which reminds me of Senator Pan’s bill in California to eliminate the opt-out ability of people. The jail time reminds me of what DHS is contemplating now.

MORE AT LINK: Today's pandemic response is eerily similar to the smallpox pandemic response (substack.com)

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[goodnesswins]

Sounds like they screwed it up 126 years ago...and now the powers that be are doing the same.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Compounded by globalist tomfoolery.

[HamiltonJay]

Smallpox has a 30% mortality rate.

Kung flu is airborne with a .02% overall mortality rate at MOST.

Comparing these two things is idiotic, plus the smallpox vaccine actually does prevent infection, unlike the jabs.

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Didn’t read the article, did you. The smallpox vaccine made the problem WORSE.

[LilFarmer]

I can’t go into too much detail to protect their privacy but the hcw I am dealing daily right now are giving me an earful about what is going on with their patients recently. What we have been posting here is happening.

[TomGuy]

Recall when the current pandemic started, we were getting scare reports of people literally falling dead in the streets and people getting contaminated just by being the proximity of an infected for just a few seconds.

Were these to corral us into compliance? Were these intentional lies and misinformation?

How much of this has been by design?

[week 71]

The Dissonance is strong with many. The maybe two or three months benefit of no severe disease if they had even contracted C-19 in those two months has left people with years and years of worry about unknown side effects which are normally discovered in animal trials.

Some effects are currently surfacing and it is troubling.

[marktwain]

Some of the early vaccines made it worse. Some actually worked.

It was one of the reasons extensive testing was put in place.

Eventually, the Supreme Court upheld the ability of states for mandatory vaccines (in the United States) with exemptions for religious reasons.

[El Cid]

Were these to corral us into compliance? Were these intentional lies and misinformation?

Perhaps. Someone made the claim that many people in Wuhan had received prototype Coronavirus vaccines to address SARS1 (from an outbreak ~10 years earlier) and since all of these 'scary' film clips came from Wuhan - maybe they were from the people who had received the prototype injections.
I tend to believe the 'fake news', and intentional lies from the CCP, angle - but I can't discount the claim about the people keeling over in the videos as having received earlier vaccine concoctions.

I don't know. The only thing the last couple of years has convinced me is that our CDC, FDA, and most of our Medical Institutions are corrupt. As well as our Main Stream Media providers. This makes it hard to discern real data from false narratives.

[Donnafrflorida]

I am a stubborn independent thick headed 65 year old. It fooled me. For 2 weeks.i washed down steering wheels, gear shift, radio jobs, door knobs. And I watched. With a few weeks I called the bull shit. Ripped off the mask and went back to normal everyday behavior.

[Valpal1]

The smallpox vaccine of the 1880’s is not the same one from the 1960-70’s.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Glad2bnuts]

Same here, I banned the Wife from shopping. I did the shopping and instead of wearing a mask, I wore gloves. I sanitized them after checking out. Wore them to the car, took them off there, sanitized my hands again along with the wheel, signals and door openers. I took the groceries home, put them on the counter. Then I had a bleach+dish soap mix in the sink, washed off the containers and put them away.

When I found that NOBODY I knew had gotten sick at all, I said “curve flattened” and went back to the same routine I have used for 50+ years. Wash hands frequently, drink out of my own glass and avoid sick people.

[NetAddicted]

Read later.

[Honest Nigerian]

Perhaps the response was similar. I don’t feel informed enough to comment on that aspect.
However, the smallpox vaccine back then seems to have been a true vaccine. The Covid clot shot is quite different, and deserves the name Jim Jones jab.

[Glad2bnuts]

Both had one thing in common, they didn’t address the cause or proved to stop infections.

[Valpal1]

Pretty sure the modern smallpox vaccination ended smallpox worldwide as it now exists only in a lab.

What is the same is the general arrogance and stupidity of politicians, bureaucrats and public health “experts”.

[daniel1212]

That year, following the protest, the government was replaced, mandates were terminated, and by 1887 vaccination coverage rates had dropped to 10%. To replace the vaccination model, the Leicester activists proposed a system of immediately quarantining smallpox patients, disinfection of their homes and quarantining of their contacts alongside improving public sanitation.

More research needed for at the least there is more to this, and there is indeed no substitute for sanitation:

During the nineteenth century, Chicago suffered fearsome though sporadic epidemics of disease. Cholera ravaged many American and European cities in the middle of the nineteenth century, and Chicago did not escape. The threat of a cholera epidemic provoked the creation of the Chicago Board of Health in 1835. Except for a few years in the 1860s, when the city council refused to fund it—a penny-wise policy reversed by a rash of contagion in 1867—the board has safeguarded the city's health with great effort and general success ever since.

Cholera kept reappearing, however. In 1852 and again in 1854, when it killed 1,424, cholera destroyed young and old, often within hours of their first symptoms. Another 210 died in 1854 from “diarrhea” and 242 more from “dysentery,” either of which might actually have been cholera. Diagnoses differed, but the symptoms were similar. No one knew exactly what caused it, though personal and public cleanliness seemed to help, and impure water began to be identified as the principal transmitter.

Chicagoans died from other fast-moving contagions as well: dysentery killed 1,600 between 1854 and 1860; scarlet fever, over 1,200 between 1858 and 1863; smallpox, 283 in 1864. The Great Fire of 1871 also contributed: high mortality from exposure and low resistance to contagions struck down many burned-out survivors. Cholera returned in the summer of 1873, killing 116. The Board of Health measured the duration of the disease, from first symptoms to death, at about eleven hours. It “struck hardest where sanitary laws were not observed,” the board's reports stated, particularly south of 37th Street and west of State Street, an area “densely populated, principally by foreigners, consisting of Germans, Swedes and Poles. ” Cleanliness, or lack of it, was the key: “Those who observed sanitary laws, attended to the disinfection of stools, and who were prompt in calling a physician, with few exceptions recovered, and the occurrence of a second case in such families was rare. On the other hand, when the stools were not cared for, and the vomit permitted to remain on the floor, and the bedding (principally feather beds) used without having been properly cleaned and where no attention was paid to ventilation or personal cleanliness, several cases would generally occur, and as a rule, prove fatal.”

Public conditions were equally noxious and threatening. Odors, or “miasmas,” were widely believed to cause disease, and in Chicago, the slaughterhouses were “diffusing the odors of animal putrefaction throughout the city,” especially in summer. In the North Branch of the Chicago River, “the water remaining standing with the yearly accretions is, during the hot months converted into a cess-pool, seething, boiling and reeking with filth, which fills the north wards of the city with mephitic [noxious] gases.” The South Branch had become “fully as foul.”

But 1873 proved to be the low point. The aftermath of the Great Fire brought major, if gradual, improvements in public health and, therefore, in the city's demographic stability. Miles of sewerage drained the city more effectively, and residents were required to “connect dwellings with sewers.” Chicago's cholera days were over, and its death rate fell below New York's and Boston's. By 1881 the Board of Health claimed that Chicago had the third-lowest death rate in the world among cities over 500,000.

Yet with germ theory still undeveloped, other contagions abounded. Deaths from diphtheria and whooping cough soared in the late 1870s; scarlet fever accounted for over 10 percent of deaths in Chicago in 1877. These so-called “childhood diseases” continued to kill, joined in summer months by “cholera infantum” and other gastrointestinal infections resulting from spoiled food and impure water. Something diagnosed as “inanition”—lethargy probably resulting from malnutrition—killed 314 in 1881. But most devastating was the smallpox epidemic that killed 1,180 in late 1881 and 1,292 in early 1882. The population rose too fast for vaccination programs to keep up with it. Each year from 1871 to 1881 the city removed the carcasses of 1,500 horses and tens of thousands of dogs from the streets, while 70 teams tried to cope with “the garbage, ashes, and rubbish daily accumulating.

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Thousands of small houses and cottages arranged for one family are now packed with a family in each room,” especially in neighborhoods of newly arrived Europeans. Chicago's doubling of population in the 1880s, much of it from Europe, had its downside. Overcrowding produced deaths from tuberculosis as well as from sanitary-related contagions.

The city simply had to conquer disease or stop developing. In 1891, bronchitis and pneumonia killed 4,300, typhoid fever 2,000. Every year in the early 1890s, 10,000–12,000 children under five died in Chicago. But the close of the nineteenth century brought control of disease, in a series of steps. Voters overwhelmingly approved the creation of the Sanitary District of Chicago in late 1889, and in January 1900 the city opened the Sanitary and Ship Canal, permanently reversing the flow of the river, sending sewage and refuse away from Lake Michigan and southwestward toward the Mississippi. Pasteurizing of milk began in 1909, and chlorinating of the city's water supply, in 1912. Tens of thousands received diphtheria vaccination, slowly eliminating that disease. Death rates from every contagious disease fell dramatically. The city's death rate—often above 20 per 1,000 in the years before 1894, seldom topped 15 thereafter. By 1930 it fell to 10...

Tuberculosis deaths slowly declined in the 1920s except among newly arrived African Americans, and after World War II, antibiotics reduced that one-time leading killer to a rarity. By then, polio threatened annually to ravage the city's youth. It too receded, as a result of the Salk and Sabin vaccines of the mid-1950s.

- http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/432.html