Influenza's Greatest Hits - Asian Flu - 1957
Francisco Zhivago
By Gordonskene
Since radio wasn't around in 1919 when the worst outbreak of influenza hit,
I thought I might as well go for the next best thing and dig out a
documentary produced in September 1957, when the infamous Asian Flu was at
its peak. The two worst influenza outbreaks I remember were the Asian Flu of
'57 and the Hong Kong flu of 1968. Both were rotten and both had achieved
pandemic proportions. So hearing about this latest Swine Flu outbreak got me
thinking just how far we haven't come in the area of detection and
prevention of life threatening diseases. But also, what a change it's been
from the last 8 years where a potential disaster was ignored until it
achieved it's own level of horror.
So have a listen and take notes, you may need them in the coming weeks.
http://crooksandliars.com/medialoader/8033/1d507/mp3/Asian_Flu_-_1957.mp3
FOX media can't contain themselves over this one, can they? The truth is
that an almost infinitesimally tiny portion of the population is catching
this, most are recovering nicely, it isn't any more serious than any other
flu, and there is no reason to make a big deal out of it EXCEPT THAT the
Government is sitting on 50 million doses of Tamiflu they got with a NO-BID
Contract to Donald Rumsfeld's old company after scaring the pants off
everybody over "bird flu", and this stuff has a SHELF-LIFE! If they can't
peddle it to a panic-stricken public they will have to throw it away! FOLLOW
THE MONEY!
Maybe republicans can appoint a czar and declare "the war on
micro-organisms."