Andrea

KILLING EVE - 3x08

Vice: Shelter in Place with Shane Smith & Edward Snowden

“People in power who see that there is a political advantage to disguising, or concealing, or massaging, or denying numbers, may choose to lie about it.

It’s happened before and it’s almost certainly happening now.

The influenza outbreak in Haskell County, KS was so severe that January, that the local doctor sent a telegram to Washington D.C. indicating the severity of the flu epidemic. That telegram was only a footnote in history and was ignored as the U.S. prepared to enter into WWI. Upon entering the war, we began recruiting troops from all over the country. Some of those troops came from Haskell County, KS and those troops were stationed in barracks at Fort Riley, KS. It was here that the Spring Wave of the Spanish Influenza began. Within a week, Fort Riley had hundreds of cases of influenza and the milder wave of the disease was moving along with the troops.

When the troops went to Europe to fight, people who had a milder form of the influenza continued to fight in the trenches and didn’t infect many people, while people with a more severe form of the disease were transported to troop hospitals where they had the chance to infect far more people. In this way, the wartime conditions rewarded the virus for making us sicker and killing more people. Over time, the virus mutated into a relentless killer.

The Gays Won!!!!