by Steve Halbrook
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), former U.S. general and president, once made some interesting statements (however unwittingly) connecting vaccination with the so-called “Spanish Flu.”
While such things as chemical weapons (as suffered by WW1 combatants) and high dose aspirin (given to combatants and civilians as a “treatment” for the flu) appear to be the true reasons for the mass illness (see Can you Catch a Cold by Daniel Roytas) called Spanish Flu, many also point to mass vaccination of the military (and a bacterial meningitis experimental vaccine) — which surely must be true, given that vaccines poison the bloodstream and cause just about any illness.
With this in mind, Eisenhower, in his book At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, describes a “Spanish Flu outbreak” in his camp that resulted in many deaths. The event occurs after certain soldiers entered the camp who were ill from vaccination. Perhaps Eisenhower himself thought the relation between vaccination and the event was a coincidence, but his narration suggests otherwise.
He also discusses doctors giving soldiers multiple vaccines after the “outbreak” begins — the last thing you want to do if you want to keep the soldiers healthy.
As Eisenhower recounts,
The only group of inductees (or drafted men) that we received came sometime in September from another camp. They reached Colt late one evening. Many of the men were feeling headachy but the doctors discovered that just before they boarded a train for Gettysburg, they had received typhoid fever shots. Because people normally experience some reaction to these shots, the sick men were sent by the doctors to our “replacement company” for the night. They would quickly throw off their aches and pains.
The next morning, alarming reports started to reach me. Some of the new men, I was told, were registering high fevers and were obviously very ill. The camp surgeon immediately took countermeasures Before noon, “Spanish flu” was recognized. Because the men had not been confined to quarters and some of them were obviously carriers, the whole camp had to be considered as exposed.
There was spare space available because of the numbers of men who had been shipped oserseas. We started a program of isolation. We put up every kind of tent with makeshift bedding and any man with the slightest symptom was isolated from the others—if only by putting canvas partitions between beds. No more than four men were allowed in any tent; three wherever we had room. Each who had been directly exposed to the disease was, wherever possible, put into a tent by himself.
By the second day, some of the men had died. The week was a nightmare and the toll was heavy. The little town had no facilities to take care of the dead—which were to number 175. There were no coffins. We had no place to put the bodies except in a storage tent until they could gradually be taken care of more suitably. The doctors not only treated every soldier with symptoms but they moved also to assist the civilian population.
Churches were taken over for hospital use as the numbers of sick mounted rapidly. The whole camp was on edge. No one knew who was going to be stricken and death came suddenly. …
The doctors were giving every kind of inoculation they could conceive of to see that no other infectious or contagious diseases sprang up to complicate the situation. Regulations called for every man who had not received all his smallpox, typhoid, and other inoculations, to get them as soon as possible.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967), 148-149.
How do we account for the high death toll? If germ-based contagious diseases exist, then the contagion (whether “Spanish Flu” or something else) could have initiated from the vaccines, since the “outbreak” traces to soldiers who entered the camp ill from vaccination.
(While typhoid fever is said to be a bacteria infection and thus the typhoid fever vaccine that made them sick is not a live virus vaccine reputed for vaccine shedding, you just never know what is in a vaccine, which can be contaminated accidentally or deliberately — even with, if it exists, “Spanish Flu.” Moreover, per Eisenhower’s account, other vaccines were given to soldiers after this, which could have been live virus vaccines causing shedding.)
However, given the serious scientific challenges in proving contagion (there are alternative explanations), it really seems the death toll was not due to a contagion that initiated with vaccination of a few soldiers, but directly from vaccination from start to finish. In other words, the “outbreak” was not Spanish Flu, but mass blood poisoning via vaccination.
First, you have the batch of soldiers entering the camp who were very ill following vaccination. Then, in the name of preventing “other infectious or contagious diseases,” other soldiers were pumped with multiple vaccines at once or close to the same time (“The doctors were giving every kind of inoculation they could conceive of …”).
As Eisenhower says, the dead numbered 175 and “death came suddenly.” What can cause this? Can the flu cause people to die suddenly — especially young men in their prime? On the other hand, sudden death can be caused by vaccination — and even more so when one is pumped full of several vaccines at once.
Vaccination, in short, makes the most sense as a cause of mass deaths here. Blood poisoning is much more dangerous than a sniffle. (Spanish Flu was said to produce various possible symptoms, making it difficult to distinguish from something else and therefore difficult to prove — even after the hurdle of proving its existence via isolating the virus.)
The soldiers themselves — experienced with getting vaccinated — knew that vaccines could be dangerous, for when Eisenhower describes the soldiers getting vaccinated after the “outbreak,” he says, “they were reluctant to take inoculations, as usual.” (p. 149)
Perhaps the outbreak that Eisenhower witnessed wasn’t a Spanish sniffle, but vaccine madness.
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