April 1918. As Europe plunged into WWI, an extremely virulent flu swept across every continent. Wrongly called ‘Spanish Flu,’ it raged for two years, causing the deaths of more than 50 million people before disappearing into oblivion.
Where did the disease come from? How did it spread? What measures were put in place to restrain it? What lessons can we learn from this tragedy?
This film undertakes a global historical investigation. With access to rare and previously unseen archives and the use of international press clippings, photos and personal diaries of the time, the documentary offers deep insight into one of the major collective catastrophes of the 20th century.
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My grandmother had the Spanish flu when she was a little girl.
Good film… at 7 min level says space was a premium yet a flat car shows a guy that is shaving with very few on the same car…
Poor food… low immune systems… and a lot of assumptions about what happened has been spoken in this doc… with little to no support data to verify what is said…"already weaken by shortages" 15 min level… says it all…
So the flu started from a army camp in the US. What did they put into these soldiers. This clip is full if inconsistencies and reeks propaganda and unclear stats and fiction.
IMHO this video is a myth being exploited. Those controlling us want us to believe that all pandemic treaties are justified by the Spanish Flu virus. Research Houstanic Live to learn the other side of the saga.
This is all correct. However, you are skirting around the central reason this is happening. It is that the LGBTQ+, the rainbow alliance, has taken over the police. Some of the upper echelons of the UK police are making motions in this area, but I think it is just window dressing. There really needs to be a massive purge of the woke in the police force. Actually everywhere.
the blue and purple patches sound like the plague- not the flu or pneumonia.
can you say propaganda!!!!
Great Documentary!
Well, it keeps your mind off the covid 19 virus … like why is no one held accountable since it was made in a government lab??????????????
I read a document, seen another documentary and heard from other sources that it did indeed start in the barracks but as a result of vaccines being doled out at the time that caused spike proteins to be transferred over the world by the soldiers. Where they hadn't travelled, there were no infections. (Obviously)
Excellent video! Well stated conclusion!
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I'm seventy and came from London as did my mother and grandparents but I was nothing at all about this bloody awful mess. It's heartbreaking.
I think the fact that In India when they ran out of wood for pyres would have made matters a hundred times worse there as they wash and wash their clothes in the rivers as well. Dumping corpses in the river would have infected everyone in the water. Watching that was horrible.
Snake oil salesmen are still getting away with their crap today. Will people never learn?
This has really upset me, knowing that it killed twice as many people as the Coronavirus has so far. Oct. 2022. and the death rate is 6,560,582. If the Spanish flu killed fifteen million back then when there were probably only a billion people on the planet, we're doing very well at the moment. We'll see how the next wave goes.
Brilliant program, thank you. The whole world should see this.
The government will lie to us with as much as we let them get away with
Life looked so.much better back then
the old scamdemic
The world we live in today is a bunch of science deniers and conspiracy theorists. You can literally look at virus through a microscope. I remember doing that in high school science class. People today literally think viruses don't exist and that will be the end of our civilization once it mutates into an even worse killing machine.
It was actually the American disease.
Just like Covid 19 is with its origin in New York, I'm sure. 😁
Spanish flu needs to be renamed chinese flu it came from china.
The sad thing is, that at the time of Spanish flu appeared, the humanity did not have Penicilin or any of modern antiviral drugs available. The world was destroyed by the war and there was a hunger and no heating in many parts. Little did they knew, what to do to preserve the life and nearly everybody honestly tried. With the exception of the snake oil salesmen, which-as the documentary said -were plentiful, just as today.
The difference with now situation of Covid 19, as the truth slowly emerges, it was a plandemic, as many suspected, not a natural virus from bats in China’s market, as purported by the public media and official narrative, but rather lab experiment tied to a huge international profiteering scam and societal obedience manipulation scam. And many knew it, yet they made extraordinary effort to suppress the truth and to suppress the medicine, which works, including one’s own immunity, after going through the disease and spreading false news about overloaded hospitals and insufficient amount of coffins and the cremation capacity in various parts of the world, namely US and even Europe….and all that for either money or for political power.
There's nowhere near enough info about how obstinate and ignorant the general public, the governments, the health departments, the media, etc all were in recognizing the existence, the severity, and the death tolls were. Nor how prevalent the conspiracy theories and politicizing and partisanship were: how much the situation mirrors the insanity surrounding Covid-19 in our own time. Including the anti-vaxxers and right wing propaganda.