The Big Lie: 102 Years Ago, Leaders Downplayed The Devastation Of The Spanish (correction: KANSAS H1N1 SWINE) Flu By Mark Washburn The Charlotte Observer. For 102 years, that lie has gone unchallenged. But now, spurred by curiosity amid a new pandemic, an examination of archived Mecklenburg County death certificates by The Charlotte Observer and a parsing of century-old news accounts reveal that Charlotte leaders — enabled by an acquiescent press and accepting public — systematically under-reported the 1918 death toll by half. In fact, at the height of the epidemic, when citizens were dying at the rate of more than 10 a week, they under-reported the scope of the crisis by two-thirds. To research the issue, the Observer examined...
-more-Agelbert COMMENT: Excellent article! Leaders now are even bigger liars than the ones that lied BIG TIME during and after the 1918
Spanish KANSAS H1N1 SWINE Flu.
If you think TPTB aren't doing even MORE BIG LIE UNDERCOUNTING of the number of
COVID-19 caused DEATHS NOW, you must be a CAPITALIST INTELLIMORON.