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Raghn Crow's avatar

Steve, I'm so glad you posted this.

Yes, Smallpox reigned in England in the mid-1800s, and they suffered the worst Smallpox outbreak in their (recorded) history, but it has been like finding hen's teeth to uncover information on it.

The bottom line is that Jenner's Smallpox "vaccine" did not work. IT DID NOT work, not the way it has been historically related. What got rid of the pox? Sanitation. Installing urban sanitation system, sewers, sewer system, what the Brits have always called "water closets" (toilets with drain to sewers) and so forth. Urban sanitation.

So, despite the fame of Edward Jenner and his smallpox vaccine (1796), smallpox remained a plague in England for a long lifetime. Contrary to the Jenner legend, and despite of or because of England's vaccination laws, between 1871 and 1880, 57,016 smallpox deaths occurred in Britain. 57,016 people in nine years, mind you, with a famous vaccine BEING REQUIRED BY LAW.

Something major changed, however, for between 1911 and 1920, only 110 English deaths occurred from smallpox. By that time, vaccination had evaporated as a national policy. But for years, vaccination had been national policy, for the British government made Smallpox vaccination a requirement in 1853, with the Compulsory Vaccination Act, with a more stringent version in 1867. (Does this sound familiar to anyone reading this today?) A Dr. Hadwen wrote: "After about 40 years of compulsory vaccination, Britain suffered the worst smallpox epidemic in its entire history, with the highest death rate in history."

What vaccine brought smallpox to an end? No vaccine at all. Rather, sanitation policies brought smallpox to an end. City reformers in Leicester set the example: they rejected vaccination in favor of sanitation. Yes, friends, this is true. Sanitation. I've always said that the invention and use of soap saved more human lives than any other thing in all history. With sewers and indoor plumbing and a ban on vaccination, smallpox disappeared from Leicester, and eventually from England. The same thing happened in Cleveland (of all places!). A Dr. Friedrich, in charge of the Health Board of Cleveland, abolished vaccination "absolutely" and promoted sanitation. Smallpox vanished. (As reported by a Dr. John Hodge in 1902.) Clearly, sanitation played the major role in ending Smallpox.

Everyone, and I mean EVERYBODY, needs to know these facts. Please, pass it on, folks.

Vaccination has NEVER BEEN the panacea it has been cracked up to be, and it is time this info bets broadcasted.

Raghn

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Holly Malloy's avatar

I’m so glad to see you digging into this, Steve! Let’s talk about polio while we’re at it... what a sham. The entire vaccine program is a complete sham, for those who dig deep enough to unbury the truth. They’ve been lying to us for a long time.

http://www.whale.to/c/DissolvingIllusions-Polio.pdf

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