Lockdown: Britain’s weapon against Covid-19. But was there another way to beat this disease? Should we have copied South Korea? Unlike here, they raced to get a mass testing programme in place. They tracked the contagion through social media and mass surveillance. And even though their strategy was tested to its limits, as the contagion spread through a religious cult, they still kept the death-toll low. The Country that Beat the Virus: What Can Britain Learn? Channel 4 2020
A small team of CDC scientists use material from the bodies [of] Alaskan victims from the 1918 outbreak of Spanish Flu to determine genetics sequencing and replicating the virus. They were successful. Ian R Crane, lecture ‘The Truth Injection’
Wuhan, central China: with a population of 11 million, it’s biggest than greater London. This is where the Coronavirus began last December. In January, as it started spreading across China, the government took an unprecedented step: to lockdown Wuhan. Our World: Wuhan: Life Under Lockdown, BBC 2020
They will engineer viruses and release them in public so the capitalistic drug manufacturers can profit from making vaccines. It’s just a business for them. Muammar al-Gaddafi, address United Nations 2009
‘People didn’t want to believe that they could be healthy in the morning and dead by nightfall.’ Secret History s6e5: Killer Flu, Channel 4 1998
It was the worst epidemic the world has ever known. It attacked over a billion people, more than half the world’s population. It killed an estimated forty million people. And yet it’s hardly remembered. ibid.
‘All the evidence points to this virus originating in the United States. But of course how can we be sure?’ ibid. Professor John Oxford
An autopsy revealed lungs that were swollen, filled with fluid and strangely blue. ibid.
As it spread through the trenches the virus mutated. ibid.
Folk remedies might have been no more than a comfort but doctors were just as useless. ibid.
People in the very prime of life from 21 to 29 were most vulnerable of all. ibid.
‘The elderly could have experienced the virus already.’ ibid. Professor Oxford
Soldiers were taking the flu with them all around the world. ibid.