{"id":1101,"date":"2014-11-04T17:12:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T22:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2014-11-04T17:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T22:12:39","slug":"government-lied-about-pandemic-which-killed-50-million-people-attempt-to-prevent-panic-backfired-washingtons-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"Government Lied About Pandemic Which Killed 50 Million People &#8230; Attempt to &#8220;Prevent Panic&#8221; Backfired Washington&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/11\/american-government-lied-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic.html\">Government Lied About Pandemic Which Killed 50 Million People &#8230; Attempt to &#8220;Prevent Panic&#8221; Backfired Washington&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: normal; color: #000099; line-height: 1.5em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Governments Have Suppressed the Dangers of Epidemics Before, Only Making Things Worse<\/h3>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The mainstream American press has agreed \u2013 at the request of the government \u2013\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"not to report on suspected Ebola cases\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/11\/heres-ebola-longer-news.html\">not to report on suspected Ebola cases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Let\u2019s provide some context \u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The U.S. National Academies of Science\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"noted\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/openbook.php?record_id=11150&amp;page=64\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>\u00a0in 2005 (starting on the bottom of p. 64):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px 3em 0px 3em; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">In the United States, national and local government and public health authorities badly mishandled the [1918 &#8220;Spanish Flu&#8221;] epidemic [which killed up to\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"50 million people\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/01\/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">50 million people<\/a>worldwide], offering a useful case study.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The context is important. Every country engaged in World War I tried to control public perception. To avoid hurting morale, even in the nonlethal first wave the press in countries fighting in the war did not mention the outbreak. (But Spain was not at war and its press wrote about it, so the pandemic became known as the Spanish flu).<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government Lied About Pandemic Which Killed 50 Million People &#8230; Attempt to &#8220;Prevent Panic&#8221; Backfired Washington&#8217;s Blog. Governments Have Suppressed the Dangers of Epidemics Before, Only Making Things Worse The mainstream American press has agreed \u2013 at the request of the government \u2013\u00a0not to report on suspected Ebola cases. Let\u2019s provide some context \u2026 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[302,379,512,655,744],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-fear","tag-government","tag-media","tag-propaganda","tag-spanish-flu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}