The Invisible Rainbow, by Arthur Firstenberg, makes the case that there is a strong connection between electricity and health and that we first began to experience the negative health impact of electricity shortly after the world began to embrace the electric light.
The book makes a case that the flu outbreak in 1889 was related to the build out of power lines for electric lighting. In 1918 the radio era began, ushering in what was labelled the Spanish influenza. In 1957 the radar era began, ushering in the Asian flu pandemic. In 1968 the satellite era began, ushering in the Hong Kong flu pandemic.
At first thought, the idea that electricity, radio, radar and satellite technology caused these pandemics seems a stretch. After all, why didn’t the pandemic continue during the following years? (A possible answer is that the weakest died off quickly and, in subsequent years, the health impact of the technology became harder to distinguish from many other possible causes.) Interestingly, the author points out, that beginning in 1918 virologists have tried to prove that the flu is transmitted from person to person by normal contact. But all such experiments have failed. In one experiment, a medical team from the United States Public Health Service tried to infect one hundred healthy volunteers:
“We collected the material and mucous secretions of the mouth and nose and throat and bronchi from cases of the disease and transferred this to our volunteers. We always obtained this material in the same way. The patient with fever, in bed, had a large shallow, tray-like arrangement before him or her, and we washed out one nostril with some sterile saline solution, using perhaps 5 c.c., which is allowed to run into the tray, and that nostril is blown vigorously into the tray. This is repeated with the other nostril. The patient then gargles with some of the solution. Next we obtain some bronchial mucous through coughing and then we swab the mucous surface of each nares and also the mucous surface of the throat. Each volunteer received 6 c.c. of the mixed stuff that I described. they received it into each nostril; received it in the throat and on the eye; and when you think that 6 c.c. in all was used, you will understand that some of it was swallowed. None of them took sick.”
Other experiments recounted in the book involved taking blood from sick patients and injecting healthy patients with the blood but, again, no one got sick.
Other posts on this blog have looked into scientists who have challenged germ theory’s facile explanation of disease. These posts have shown: that the measles virus does not exist (according to the German High Court); that AIDS has no single cause and HIV is not one them; that many diseases assumed to have been wiped out because of vaccines were already disappearing before vaccines were introduced; that the profit motive often interferes with good science …
With this new point of reference – that even the flu’s contagious nature has not been proven – one can only marvel at the great irony that the entire coronavirus pandemic is foisted upon the public in the name of science.
Further Reading:
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
The AIDS and Covid-19 Connections