Did Aspirin Help Spread the 1918 Flu Pandemic?

[Amomynous]

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Did Aspirin Spread the 1918 Flu Pandemic?

The blog's writer claims that there was no flu virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic. Instead, it was created by aspirin and the newly invented telephone. As an added bonus, it is a long article without any references. I only wish that it was in video format too!

He also argues that SARS was created by Tamaflu. I'm sure if you poke around on the site you can find some interesting causes for AIDS.

[laughingwillow]

If the article is correct, shouldn't the world experience similar flu seasons EVERY YEAR as that which occurred in 1918? I mean, the use of aspirin for flu symptoms certainly didn't peak in 1918. If the author is correct, I would expect to see a pandemic almost every year since aspirin was introduced as a flu remedy.

lw

[Amomynous]

If the article is correct, shouldn't the world experience similar flu seasons EVERY YEAR as that which occurred in 1918? I mean, the use of aspirin for flu symptoms certainly didn't peak in 1918. If the author is correct, I would expect to see a pandemic almost every year since aspirin was introduced as a flu remedy.

That's a good point, but you're making the mistake of applying reason and analytical thinking to an issue that should be purely emotional. Everyone knows that we in the west use our heads too much, and we should endeavor to only employ fear-based emotions to such things.

Think with the heart, not with the head!

[Zaka]

I saw this link (and site) yesterday and immediately thought of Zaka. Zaka, this should appeal deeply to you!

Irie Anon,
Thanks man!  :smoke:3
Aspirin was the only phama med I was (past tense) using for emergency situations. For example fractured leg, half an soluble aspirin to thin the blood. But now I've found enough herbal alternatives.

Fact is the western medical system has killed more people in the last 100yrs than anything else.
The problem is that they take what they consider "nasties" out and isolate a compound from the plant. This means that the elements that cause the vomiting (Deep purging) are removed. But that is where the real complete healing treatment is contained.

What I wonder is what the hell these guy's were doing running around the world in 1999 looking for the 1918 flu virus and eventually found it in some Inuit body frozen in permafrost?
Dodgy, dodgy very dodgy!
I also heard that the soldiers in 1918 were vaccinated on the troop ships going to Spain! Loads were dying before they reached there.

I'm all for letting a fever take it's course....Sweat it out, always works.

Respect
Z