White Civil Rights : The Website for Europeans and Americans Wherever They May Live

by Ian Mosley

Remember that brief outburst of media hysteria over the Swine Flu (aka H1N1) this spring –the three week wonder that promptly dropped off the media radar. Well, the flu continues to mutate and there’s still a chance history could repeat itself.

A Reuters news article reports “The new H1N1 influenza virus bears a disturbing resemblance to the virus strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic, with a greater ability to infect the lungs than common seasonal flu viruses, researchers reported on Monday. Tests in several animals confirmed other studies that have shown the new swine flu strain can spread beyond the upper respiratory tract to go deep into the lungs — making it more likely to cause pneumonia… The new swine flu virus has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century, infecting more than a million people, according to estimates, and killing at least 500. The World Health Organization says it is causing mostly moderate disease but Kawaoka said that does not mean it is like seasonal flu. ‘There is a misunderstanding about this virus,’ he said in a statement. ‘There is clear evidence the virus is different than seasonal influenza.’ Writing in the journal Nature, Kawaoka and colleagues noted that the ability to infect the lungs is a characteristic of other pandemic viruses, especially the 1918 virus, which is estimated to have killed between 40 million and 100 million people. They tested the virus in blood samples taken from nursing home residents and workers in 1999 in California, Wisconsin, the Netherlands and Japan. People born before 1920 had a strong antibody response to the new H1N1 virus, meaning their body ‘remembered’ it from infection early in life. This finding supports a study published in Nature in August that also found people who survived the 1918 pandemic still had immune protection against that virus.”

In other words, this latest bug is a direct descendant of the worst plague in human history short of the Black Death itself. A Chicago Sun Times article in 1998 reported “One by one, experts gently removed six wooden crosses last week marking a frozen mass grave that may contain secrets about one of the deadliest epidemics this century. A four-nation team is exhuming the bodies of six young coal miners who were among the victims of the Spanish flu, which killed 20 million to 40 million people in 1918 and 1919 before vanishing. The miners were buried in the permafrost of this Norwegian Arctic outpost, and researchers say the frigid conditions might have preserved samples of the mysterious virus sufficient to build a genetic profile.”

You don’t suppose that virus fell into the wrong hands, which in this case might just be a bio-weapons lab run by the US government.

The Reuters article notes “Flu viruses change constantly, which is why people can be re-infected and why the vaccine must be changed regularly. Current seasonal strains of H1N1 are distant cousins of both the 1918 pandemic strain and the new H1N1 strain.”

Deaths are mounting worldwide, although nowhere nearly as bad as 81 years ago. Not yet. If history does repeat itself as in 1918, the summer remission of the pandemic will be followed by a massive upsurge in September and October. For reasons still unknown, the 1918 flu mutated into a harmless form after leaving tens of millions of people dead worldwide in its wake. Some people wondered if this horrible plague had been cast onto mankind as a punishment for the pointless bloodletting of World War One. One can only wonder what sort of punishment America may receive for the election of the closet Marxist Barack Obama.

Even a few years ago, our American health system was probably capable of dealing with a major crisis of this sort. Today many hospitals are nearly bankrupt, overrun with millions of illegal aliens both as patients and caregivers who carry all kinds of unfamiliar diseases, riddled with incompetence and bureaucracy and Third World doctors some of whom cannot even speak English. What about the coming transformation to a nationalized health care system which will wreck the infrastructure of American health care from top to bottom? Is this a system which is ready for the coming Obama Plague?