Aspirin and the Spanish Flu

" ... the fact that he was spending day after day in bed 

being dosed with aspirin did nothing to improve his strength."

I came across this when reading Humphrey Carpenter's biography of J.R.R. Tolkien and was reminded of a connection that I'd read about concerning aspirin and the Spanish Flu that broke out at the end of the First World War. The quote above relates to Tolkien's recuperation in hospital from so-called trench fever contracted during his stint in the trenches at the Somme.

You'd be hard pressed to find too many people who could make a connection between aspirin and the Spanish Flu and that's why it stuck in my head. I came across the idea in a book by John Hamer titled OUR DISTORTED REALITY.

Here is part of what he had to say about the role of aspirin:

The 20 to 50 million deaths during 1918 have long been attributed to a virulent new virus but the NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) has now clearly stated that common upper respiratory bacteria was responsible, not a new virus.  There was no new deadly virus but there was something new in 1918 and that was toxic aspirin, being used in totally inappropriate, dangerous dosages. 

“... just before the 1918 death spike, aspirin was recommended in regimens now known to be potentially toxic and to cause pulmonary oedema and may therefore have contributed to overall pandemic mortality and several of its mysteries. Young adult mortality may be explained by willingness to use the new, recommended therapy and the presence of youth in regimented treatment settings (military)” stated Dr. Karen Starko. 

Use of Bayer aspirin and other generic aspirin suppressed immunity, allowing the bacteria to develop into a massive bacterial infections and pneumonias.  In addition to the deaths by pneumonia, the use of Bayer aspirin (and generic versions) at toxic doses can explain the lingering mysteries of extremely rapid deterioration from health to death as well as the death of young, apparently otherwise healthy people.  Bayer's heavy advertising and government and medical recommendations fuelled use of both Bayer aspirin and generic versions. 

Based on the primary role that aspirin played in the millions of 1918 deaths versus the survival of those who avoided it in favour of natural treatments, it would suggest that 1918 was not a plague caused by a virus, but a pharmaceutical industry issue.  And given the scale of the deaths, it was without question, the greatest medical catastrophe in human history, exceeding even the ‘Great Plague’ of the Dark and Middle Ages.

Here is a New York Times article that discusses Dr. Karen Starko's findings:

A nurse took a patient's pulse in the influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital in 1918. CreditCorbis

In 1918 Pandemic, Another Possible Killer: Aspirin

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR OCT. 12, 2009

The 1918 flu epidemic was probably the deadliest plague in human history, killing more than 50 million people worldwide. Now it appears that a small number of the deaths may have been caused not by the virus, but by a drug used to treat it: aspirin. 

Dr. Karen M. Starko, author of one of the earliest papers connecting aspirin use with Reye’s syndrome, has published an article suggesting that overdoses of the relatively new “wonder drug” could have been deadly. 

What raised Dr. Starko’s suspicions is that high doses of aspirin, amounts considered unsafe today, were commonly used to treat the illness, and the symptoms of aspirin overdose may have been difficult to distinguish from those of the flu, especially among those who died soon after they became ill. 

Some doubts were raised even at the time. At least one contemporary pathologist working for the Public Health Service thought that the amount of lung damage seen during autopsies in early deaths was too little to attribute to viral pneumonia, and that the large amounts of bloody, watery liquid in the lungs must have had some other cause. 

Dr. Starko acknowledged that she did not have autopsy reports or other documents that could prove that aspirin was the problem. “There was a lot of chaos in these places,” she said, “and I’m not sure if there are good records anywhere.” 

But of the many factors that might have influenced the outcome in any particular case, Dr. Starko wrote, aspirin overdose stands out for several reasons, including a confluence of historical events. 

In February 1917, Bayer lost its American patent on aspirin, opening a lucrative drug market to many manufacturers. Bayer fought back with copious advertising, celebrating the brand’s purity just as the epidemic was reaching its peak. 

Aspirin packages were produced containing no warnings about toxicity and few instructions about use. In the fall of 1918, facing a widespread deadly disease with no known cure, the surgeon general and the United States Navy recommended aspirin as a symptomatic treatment, and the military bought large quantities of the drug. 

The Journal of the American Medical Association suggested a dose of 1,000 milligrams every three hours, the equivalent of almost 25 standard 325-milligram aspirin tablets in 24 hours. This is about twice the daily dosage generally considered safe today. 

Dr. Starko’s paper, published in the Nov. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, has stirred some interest, if not enthusiastic endorsement, among other experts.

“I think the paper is creative and asking good questions,” said John M. Barry, author of a book on the 1918 flu titled “The Great Influenza.” “But we don’t know how many people actually took the doses of aspirin discussed in the article.” 

The pharmacology of aspirin is complex and was not fully understood until the 1960s, but dosage is crucial. Doubling the dose given at six-hour intervals can cause a 400 percent increase in the amount of the medicine that remains in the body. Even quite low daily doses — six to nine standard aspirin pills a day for several days — can lead to dangerously high blood levels of the drug in some people. 

Peter A. Chyka, a professor of pharmacy at the University of Tennessee, said he found Dr. Starko’s theory “intriguing.” Little was known about safe dosages at the time, he said, and doctors often simply raised the amount until they saw signs of toxicity. 

“In the context of what we know today about aspirin and aspirin-like products, Starko has made an interesting effort to put this together,” Dr. Chyka said. “There are things other than flu that can complicate a disease like this.” 

Although he doubted that more than a small number of deaths could be attributed to aspirin overdose, Dr. David M. Morens, an epidemiologist with the National Institutes of Health, said the paper was valuable in that “it makes an attempt to look at environmental or host factors that may be involved.” He said, “We haven’t been able to explain all the deaths in young adults with the virus itself.” 

Dr. Starko was hesitant to estimate how many deaths aspirin overdose could have caused, but suggested that military archives might be one place to look. “I’m hoping others will follow up,” she said, “by examining available treatment records.” 

Of course, it's emphasised that only a small number of deaths could have been caused by aspirin overdose but, as is admitted, nobody really knows how many. Once the possibility of aspirin being a factor in the death toll is admitted, the supposition that its effect was minimal is unscientific. One can equally assert that it had a major effect. Only more research can resolve the issue. 

Of course, this news has done little to affect the official narrative that a deadly influenza virus came out of nowhere and killed millions of people, many of them in their prime. The pharmaceutical industry thrives on the fear that another such virus may emerge at any time and sweep most of humanity away. Therefore, don't forget your annual flu shot!

Getting back to Tolkien, he did have a couple of further hospitalisations and never returned to the trenches. As his long suffering wife Edith sarcastically wrote in a letter to him:

‘I should think you ought never to feel tired again,’ Edith wrote, ‘for the amount of Bed you have had since you came back from France nearly two years ago is enormous.’

Whether he was taking aspirin during his time between hospital interludes is unknown but it is probable that he was because it was widely available. What Hamer has done in respect to the Spanish Flu is to introduce an element of doubt into the official narrative. He hasn't done this by making any wild claims but instead has used the findings of medical professionals.

ANIARA

It was only when watching 2017's " Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" that I realised how anti-Catholic Hollywood had become. The Jewish-controlled media is saturated with concerns about anti-Semitism but there is nary a mention made of instances of anti-Catholicism. In the movie just mentioned, a Catholic priest comes to visit the character played by Frances McDormand and she launches into a foul-mouthed tirade. It is described in Catholic News Service as follows:

Earlier in the proceedings, a priest visits Mildred (a recently lapsed Catholic) to remonstrate with her about the strife her billboards are causing. In response, she launches into a tirade in which she compares Catholic clergymen to the members of violent street gangs and applies the principle of collective guilt to claim that even good priests are complicit in their evil peers' crimes against children. 

This cruel and unreasonable denunciation will rightly outrage the sensibilities of Catholic moviegoers. Add to it the picture's ill-advised treatment of suicide and a climactic sequence that toys with justifying murderous revenge -- though the outcome is left unclear -- and the verdict on this aesthetically accomplished piece of cinema must be that it is spiritually unfit for all. 

The film contains anti-Catholicism, a skewed view of suicide, an ambivalent treatment of vigilantism, some violence with brief gore, numerous profanities and at least one milder oath as well as pervasive rough and frequent crude language. The Catholic News Service classification is O, morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R, restricted with under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

Mildred's outburst is clearly inserted for shock value as it does not add to the storyline. The relationship between Hollywood and the Catholic Church goes back a long way, as I discovered when reading E. Michael Jones' book "The Jewish Revolutionary Influence and its Impact on World History". To quote from page 776 of that book:

The outcry against Hollywood's subversion of morals was so great that federal, state and local legislation was proposed as an antidote. To head off legislation, Hollywood's Jews in 1934 entered into a voluntary agreement, the Production Code, with the Legion of Decency, a Catholic operation. The Catholics had forced the issue by organising boycotts when the film industry was reeling. 

Henry Ford admired Catholic resistance to Jewish Hollywood, even before imposition of the Code. Unlike Protestant clergymen who were regularly ridiculed in Hollywood films, "The Catholic clergy very soon made themselves felt in opposition to this abuse of their priestly dignity, and as a result of their vigorous resentment the Jew climbed down. You now never see a priest made light of on the screen. But the Protestant clergyman is still the elongated, snivelling, bilious hypocrite of anti-Christian caricatures."

How things have changed. The Production Code terminated in 1965. Joe Breen, who oversaw the Production Code for 20 years had this to say about the Hollywood elite (again I'm quoting from page 776 of the book):

They are simply a rotten bunch of vile people with no respect for anything beyond the making of money.... Here [in Hollywood] we have Paganism rampant and in its most virulent form. Drunkenness and debauchery are commonplace. Sexual perversion is rampant,'" any number of our directors and stars are perverts.... These Jews seem to think of nothing but moneymaking and sexual indulgence. The vilest kind of sin is a common indulgence hereabouts and the men and women who engage in this sort of business are the men and women who decide what the film fare of the nation is to be. They and they alone make the decision. Ninety-five percent of these folks are Jews of an Eastern European lineage. They are, probably, the scum of the earth.

Strong words and probably more true today than it was then but, oddly enough considering today's sensitivities, the Hollywood barons of the time didn't regard Joe Breen as an anti-Semite:

Joe Breen, who had railed against the immorality of the Hollywood Jews, had learned from them, and they from him. They would not have asked him to run RKO Pictures if he had been truly anti-Semitic. They would not have flown him here and there. They would not have invited him into their homes. And they certainly would not have given him an Academy Award. He had convictions. He was a fighter, but he didn't hate.

This of course is the point. One can criticise Jewish control of Hollywood or the media or American foreign policy without hating Jews. Of course, organisations like the Anti Defamation League or ADL view any explicit mention of Jewish control or any criticism of Jews or Israel as anti-Semiticism. Imagine the outcry if Mildred launched into a similar tirade against Rabbinical Judaism. Frances McDormand, who comes from a Protestant background, is married to Joel Coen (one half of the famous Coen brothers). 

Lately I've grown increasingly disillusioned with Hollywood movies, Netflix series and the like and so last night I chose to watch a Swedish science fiction movie, Aniara. However, it was more of the same Hollywood crap. To quote from a Rotten Tomatoes review:

ANIARA is the story of one of the many spaceships used for transporting Earth's fleeing population to their new home-planet Mars. But just as the ship leaves the destroyed Earth, she collides with space junk and is thrown off her course. The passengers slowly realize that they'll never be able to return. The protagonist, MR, runs a room where a sentient computer allows humans to experience near-spiritual memories of the Earth. As the ship drifts further into the endless void more and more passengers are in need of MRs services. Pressure builds on MR as she is the only one who can keep the growing insanity and lethal depression at bay. In Aniara's inexorable journey towards destruction there is a warning that cannot be emphasised enough. There's only one Earth. It's time to take responsibility for our actions.

In short, more propaganda to support the Global Warming Alarmists who believe that humanity is headed for disaster because of uncontrolled carbon dioxide emissions. The protagonist also gets involved in a lesbian relationship and her lover becomes pregnant after a group sex orgy. Together they raise the resulting infant although it doesn't end well. Again more propaganda, this time in support of the LBGT agenda that disparages the cliché of a mother and a father as being so yesterday and proposes that mother and mother or father and father are equally viable options. It seems that Hollywood has infected the entire world.

The Star Kicker Logo

I was watching a YouTube video of Dire Straits performing "Sultans of Swing" in 1978 on a BBC show called "The Old Grey Whistle Test". According to Wikipedia:

The Old Grey Whistle Test (usually abbreviated to Whistle Test or OGWT) was a British television music show. It was commissioned by David Attenborough and aired on BBC2 from 1971 to 1988. It took over the BBC2 late night slot from Disco 2, which ran between September 1970 and July 1971, while continuing to feature non-chart music. The show was devised by BBC producer Rowan Ayers. The original producer, involved in an executive capacity throughout the show's entire history, was Michael Appleton. According to presenter Bob Harris, the programme derived its name from a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years before. When they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the old greys – doormen in grey suits. Any song they could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test.

As the group was performing, I noticed an illuminated picture in the background that I've since discovered is the so-called Star kicker Logo. Again to quote from Wikipedia:

The original opening credits were played over a naked woman, painted in green, dancing to Santana's Jingo. When Richard Williams was replaced by 'Whispering' Bob Harris, the series' opening titles theme was changed to the now more famous animation of a male figure made up of stars (known as the 'Star Kicker') dancing. The programme's title music, with its harmonica theme, was a track called "Stone Fox Chase" by a Nashville band, Area Code 615. 

Figure 1 shows a T-shirt with the logo:

Figure 1

To me it looks like someone kicking a cross rather than a star, making it distinctly anti-Christian in character. However, searches thus far haven't revealed anybody making that accusation. There is this BBC article from the 5th of September 2010 titled "Cardinal: BBC biased against Christianity" and to quote:

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has accused the BBC of "institutional bias" against Christianity. Cardinal Keith O'Brien said that mainstream Christian views had been marginalised by the corporation. He also said a forthcoming BBC documentary about the Pope's visit, would be a "hatchet job". A spokeswoman for the BBC said the corporation refuted the allegations "absolutely". In an interview with the Sunday Times, Cardinal O'Brien said: "(Our) detailed research into BBC news coverage of Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular, together with a systematic analysis of output by the Catholic Church, has revealed a consistent anti-Christian institutional bias. "This week the BBC's director-general admitted that the corporation had displayed massive bias in its political coverage throughout the 1980s, acknowledging the existence of an institutional political bias." The cardinal said that senior news managers had admitted to the Catholic Church that a "radically secular mindset and socially liberal mindset" pervaded newsrooms. He added: "This is utterly at odds with wider public attitudes and sadly taints BBC news and current affairs coverage of religious issues, particularly matters of Christian belief." The cardinal also voiced concern that a forthcoming BBC documentary titled Benedict - Trials of a Pope will be a "hatchet job" on the Vatican. It covers Catholic abuse scandals and will be shown on 15 September, the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Scotland. In response, a spokeswoman for the BBC said: "The BBC's news and current affairs coverage of any subject is approached in an objective and impartial way reflecting the different sides of the debate. "BBC news and current affairs has a dedicated religion correspondent, and works closely with BBC Religion, ensuring topical religious and ethical affairs stories are featured across all BBC networks."

Given the Jewish influence over mass media, I think the Cardinal's accusations are definitely justified. Whether there was deliberate intent to "put the boot" into Christianity by the introduction of this logo in the early 70's is hard to gauge now. I must confess that at first I thought Mark Knopfler had chosen the background and I was naturally suspicious because to quote from Wikipedia yet again:

Mark Freuder Knopfler was born on 12 August 1949 in Glasgow, Scotland, to an English mother, Louisa Mary (née Laidler), and a Hungarian father, Erwin Knopfler. His mother was a teacher and his father was an architect and a chess player whose anti-fascist sympathies and Jewish parentage forced him to flee from his native Hungary in 1939. Knopfler later described his father as a Marxist agnostic.

The Marxist oriented Jews are notoriously anti-Christian and I thought the father might have passed this on to the son. Of course, I now know this wasn't the case but the suspicion set me off on an investigation of what the logo meant. I'm primed for suspicion at the moment because I'm reaching page 1000 of E. Michael Jones's "The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit". The section of the book that I'm currently reading is dealing with the 1960's and the effect this spirit had on that decade. Figure 2 shows the book cover.

Figure 2

A musical program like "The Old Grey Whistle Test" provided a wonderful opportunity to erode youthful morals by suggesting it's time to kick away old religious baggage. Decades later, the attack on morality via mainstream music and musical performances has intensified nauseating proportions. Figure 3 shows Kesha performing with an inverted cross with commentary from this source:

Sadly inverted crosses are becoming commonplace in popular culture, often also associated with darkness in other ways. Where once they may have been used for shock value and rebellion, they are now becoming a new norm in fashion accessories as society moves further and further away from an understanding of spiritual values.

Figure 3

So the Star Kicker logo perhaps represents an early attack on Christian morals and values. An attack that has only gathered momentum over the following decades.

Einstein: Right Again!

Every time I see another headline about Einstein being right again, I want to scream. This news update from New Scientist was the latest. Notice that it's not "Relativity proved right again". The emphasis is always on the main, Einstein, and not the Theory of Relativity that is associated with him. Scientific publications like New Scientist will trumpet it first and then mainstream media outlets will join in the apotheosis that has been in full swing for almost one hundred years now.

In the early part of the twentieth century, Relativity (both Special and General) was certainly coming whether Einstein was there or not. Other mathematicians and scientists had laid the groundwork: Riemann, Hilbert, Lorenz, Poincaré and others. However, Einstein was first to publish and so deserves the credit according to the general consensus. Not all agree of course and controversy has dogged Einstein for the past century. How did this obscure patent clerk rise so suddenly from anonymity to worldwide acclaim? Christopher Jon Bjerknes in his book THE MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF SAINT EINSTEIN is scathing in his attack on Einstein as a fraud and a product of Jewish propaganda. I did start ready this book but its over 2500 pages and is badly written.

I should try to read this book again but Bjerkness is not the only one to accuse Einstein of plagiarism. There are plenty of others but I don't want to go into that in this post. I'll accept for now that Einstein did publish first and deserves major credit for the theory. What irks me is that nobody else ever seems to get any credit as the focus is always on the man. The name Einstein has been burnt into the brains of most of humanity so that phrases like "I'm no Einstein but ... " have come to permeate the language, the English language at least. An industry has sprung up around his name and his image. A century of perception management has created a towering, God-like figure who may well have feet of clay. Einstein seems to 99% hype and perhaps 1% substance.

The same propaganda has been applied to Freud, the so-called Father of Psychoanalysis. However, Frederick Crews in his book "Freud: the Making of an Illusion" does a good job of exposing the hype surrounding him. In the twentieth century, the Jewish control of mainstream media purposefully and effectively set out to portray Einstein and Freud as intellectual Jewish giants for whom, although this was only implied, there was no equivalent amongst the Gentiles. Of course compared to Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud looks lilliputian in the eyes of many and indeed the latter's stature has diminished over the years while the former's has grown. Einstein still remains on his pedestal for now. Many would claim that the bust of Nikola Tesla deserves to be mounted on that pedestal but that's another story.

The takeaway here is that, as always, nothing is what it seems. The question to be asked is: Does Albert Einstein deserve the accolade of Greatest Scientist of the Twentieth Century? How much is he a product of mainstream media hype? There are no ready answers to either question but merely by asking these questions a beginning has been made in doubting what we take for granted about the world and its history.

The Elephant in the Room Part 2

Click here for Part 1

Here is the heading and part of an article from the Courier Mail of September 13th 2019 that I read today:

Rapid rise in food allergy

Parliament inquiry into deadly anaphylaxis

Deadly anaphylaxis rates from food have doubled in 10 years while hospital admissions have increased five-fold over the past 20 years. Allergy and anaphylaxis will be examined in a parliamentary enquiry with over four million Australians living with the life-threatening health condition. The reason for the rapid rise in allergies in Australia, which has one the highest rates in the world, is unknown ... Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia figures show that one in 10 infants now have a food allergy.

The elephant in the room comes to mind when anticipating the direction this parliamentary enquiry will take. Any suggestion that the aggressive marketing of vaccines over the past 20 years may have contributed to this epidemic of allergies and anaphylactic reactions will be steadfastly ignored. As Figure 1 reveals, silence as to the role of vaccines will be maintained throughout the enquiry, a variety of diversions will be explored, ignorance will be feigned regarding the damage vaccines cause and denial invoked if any such damage is mentioned. The reluctance to avoid any offence to pharmaceutical and medical interests will ensure avoidance of any mention of the real culprit behind what is clearly a scandal of epic proportions.

Figure 1

I might be wrong but I doubt it. I've posted frequently on the damage caused by vaccines so I'm not going to go into any of that here. An example of the blatant desire to even consider vaccines as a possibility is shown in this 2018 article titled WHY IS AUSTRALIA THE FOOD ALLERGY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD? In this article, three hypotheses for the reasons behind the rise in allergy are mentioned, collectively known as the 5 D’s:

Dry skin and Diet
Vitamin D
Dogs and Dribble

Perhaps the defining D is Drivel as regards this study. In reading over it, there is not a single mention of vaccinations, despite the following admission:

If you are unable to remember many children having an allergy when you were young, and have thought that it seems as though these days every second child has some kind of allergy, you’re not mistaken. The rate of food allergy in children has exploded over the last 30 years – from almost non-existence prior to the 1980s to >10% of infants tested in a Melbourne-based study having a verifiable food allergy in 2011.

The parliamentary enquiry will draw on the expertise of professionals like Professor Katie Allen who is mentioned in the article. She may be well-intentioned by her myopia ensures she will not see the elephant in the room. 

Misinformation

Like the War on Terror or the War on Poverty, there are also Fights to be Fought and the Fight against Online Misinformation is one of the most pressing because there is a lot of it about, originating from those crazies who dare to question the official narrative. Figure 1 shows a character from a board game titled "Sentinels of the Multiverse: Miss Information Villain Character (2013)". Appropriately, for the purposes of this blog post, the character is a "villain" disguised as a "demure office worker". This play on words was prompted by a BBC news article, the content of which I've included in full:

Pinterest to direct vaccine searches to health sites 

Pinterest users searching for vaccine-related information will be directed to results from "public health organisations". Last year, the social platform stopped showing results for vaccine searches to tackle the spread of misinformation. Social media companies are facing increasing scrutiny over how they moderate content on their sites. In recent months, other firms including Facebook have taken some steps to address vaccine misinformation.  

Under the new policy, Pinterest said searches for "measles," "vaccine safety" and other related health terms will return results from public health bodies including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centres for Disease Control  (CDC) and the WHO-established Vaccine Safety Net. "We're taking this approach because we believe that showing vaccine misinformation alongside resources from public health experts isn't responsible," the firm said in a statement. "As we continue to tackle health misinformation, we remove it and the accounts that spread it from our service," Pinterest said. The firm also said it won't show ads, comments or recommendations on results pages for vaccine searches. 

What are vaccines and how do they work? 

How anti-vaccine movements threaten global health 

Content crackdown 

The WHO said anti-vaccine views were a "top 10 global health threat" in 2019.

The volume of anti-vaccine sentiment on social media has risen in recent years, sparking concern that it is having a negative impact on immunisation rates in some countries. In recent months, some platforms have taken steps to counter false information about vaccines. 

YouTube stopped serving ads to a number of popular channels that promote anti-vaccine conspiracy theories. 

The move in February followed protests from companies who discovered their adverts were running alongside the controversial videos. 

Instagram blocks vaccine hoax hashtags

'Don't be taken in by anti-vaccine myths on social media' 

In a statement in March, Facebook said it was working to "tackle vaccine misinformation… by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic". The company said measures to be taken included rejecting ads with misinformation about vaccines and not showing misleading content on hashtag pages. Instagram - which is owned by Facebook - said in May it would block hashtags being used to spread "verifiably false" information about vaccinations.

Figure 1: Source

Appropriately, the article is categorised under Business and that of course is what it's all about. The article is self explanatory and the implications are starkly clear: frequenters of Pinterest and other social media sites no longer have to decide what constitutes misinformation. It is being decided for them by the information overlords who can be relied upon to protect visitors from misinformation or disinformation (meaning information that the overlords find disagreeable for whatever reason).

Ultimately, companies hosting websites that contain alleged misinformation will be forced to shut these sites down but for the moment that is not the case. In the meantime, as mainstream social media sites continue to further restrict access to alternative information, one approach is to direct visitors to alternative news websites. This could take the form of a single URL leading to a web location containing links to multiple alternative news sites.

The caption could read: 

INFORMATION, DISINFORMATION OR MISINFORMATION?

YOU SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE.

YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, PINTEREST ETC.

SHOULDN'T DECIDE FOR YOU.

CLICK BELOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN DECISIONS

ABOUT WHAT THESE SOCIAL MEDIA SITES 

DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE

It's harder for algorithms to detect and delete such "misinformation capsules" (for want of a better term) that could be scattered all over the Internet. There will always be people who object to having their information filtered but who lack time to search for the unfiltered variety. Perhaps the misinformation capsule will be the red pill that sets them free.

Immunescence

Figure 1

I was wandering along the street near where I was staying in Brisbane recently and a sign outside a pharmacy caught my eye (see Figure 1). Now you don't even need to go to a doctor to get your flu shot. All you need to do is to walk into a pharmacy and pay $25. For the elderly, it's free. The media dutifully plays its role by whipping up hysteria about the dangers of this disease.

It's likely that flu shots will be made free for everybody and the costs will be borne by the government and thus paid for by taxation. For the pharmaceutical companies, this is the almost ideal situation. I say "almost" because the ideal is mandatory vaccination. This is not quite the same as compulsory vaccination. You won't be compelled to get vaccinated but more and more obstacles will emerge if you don't. Restrictions will be placed on travel, entry to venues, employment etc.

Figure 2

The so-called Immunisation Coalition that has a creepy Star of David logo on its website and also contains a video about influenza in the elderly. In this video, the term immunescence which is short for immunosenescence is introduced. The claim is made that as people age, their immune systems become weaker and so the flu vaccine is ineffective in protecting these people from the ravages of the flu. This is why, when they are housed in aged care facilities, they need to be protected from exposure to the virus via visitors and fellow inmates.

Of course these same inmates whose immune systems are growing weaker will still be given their flu shots. That the vaccination itself will compromise their immunity further is never mentioned. It would be difficult to remain in an aged care facility nowadays and evade an annual flu shot. The prevailing mindset is that only vaccines can protect against pathogens such as the influenza virus. If a vaccine proves ineffective in the short term, it is because the pathogen has mutated. If the vaccine proves ineffective in the long term, it needs to be readministered on a regular basis (yearly in the case of the flu virus). There is no doubting that the vaccine is ineffective per se. In the Church of Vaccinology, belief must be unquestioning.

Vaccines are good. There are no bad vaccines, only bad reactions to them in a tiny minority of cases. The very great good they do far outweighs the very little harm they cause.

 I read this statement in a news article today:

ADHD is a neurological condition linked to impulsive behaviour and an impeded ability to pay attention and plan. It affects 5-7 per cent of the population, Dr Kohn said.

There is no deep questioning of this statistic. It's simply stated as a fact. Why does 5 to 7 percent of the population have a neurological condition that causes impulsive behaviour and an impeded ability to pay attention and plan? Has this condition afflicted a similar proportion of humans over the past few millennia or has it developed in tandem with the increasing aggressive marketing of vaccines? To ask such questions is to challenge the authority of The Church of Vaccinology and you will come up against The TRIUMVIRATE of BIG MEDIA, BIG MEDICINE AND BIG PHARMA. Who are you? 

Well, whoever you are, you are showing serious signs of vaccine hesitancy. Let's finish up with this quote from the Immunisation Coalition:

The Immunisation Coalition is a not for profit organisation, and is the leading voice in whole-of-life immunisation in Australia, protecting all Australians against communicable diseases. We collaborate with like-minded organisations such as Primary Health Networks (PHNs), Public Health Units, Government health departments and other groups that fight vaccine hesitancy. We are a champion for immunisation education, providing timely, accurate and scientifically informed information about vaccines and the diseases they prevent.

Of course, in its funding by Pfizer, Roche and other big pharmaceutical companies, the Immunisation Coalition is no different to other front organisations in the PR campaign to popularise vaccines. It is indeed a coalition and there seems that little can be done to oppose it.