I suggest that you not place your trust in self-published books by conspiracy nuts.

The Swine-Flu vaccine produced in the 70′s was human specific and was rushed into production within 3 months following the discovery of swine flu in soldiers at Fort Dix in Jan 1976. It did present an elevated risk of provoking Guillain-Barre syndrome, a treatable autoimmune reaction but different batches of vaccines present different risk.

In the end, Swine-Flu proved not to be anywhere as dangerous as the 1918 influenza which it resembled and the vaccination program was shutdown.

I may shred a little tear of joy.

The early 20th century was a pretty horrible time to be a doctor. You could diagnose communicable diseases precisely and tell exactly what was killing people but you couldn’t do squat about it. I think that might be the reason so many doctors got involved in progressive politics that lead to water treatment and sometimes draconian public health powers. Stopping people from getting disease was the best they could do.

Mrs Davis, to save lives and save the planet: don’t breed

If only Homo erectus had thought of that we wouldn’t have any of the problems we see in the modern world. On the other hand, people were dying by the truck load of communicable disease when earth only had 50 million humans. The only thing that has happened in during human progress is that some humans have stopped dying of diseases. That has happened as the population has exploded so I think your idea has a couple of holes.

Yes, people do seem to take diseases that might infect them more seriously. It’s natural I suppose but one would like to think we’ve made more progress.

80% of them in the first two years of their life;
42,000 a week,
6,000 a day,
four every minute,
one every fourteen seconds.

This, by the way, is why the story that white slave traders marched off into the African interior to take slaves is a fiction.

That is true but yellow fever is also the reason that European’s bought the slaves that Africans offered at their long established costal slave markets. Long before the slave trade developed, Portuguese traders accidently bought yellow fever to the New World were it spread quickly. Native Americans with their lack of genetic diversity suffered from its effects even worse than whites. It was nearly impossible to maintain a working population free, indentured or slave without a population of people genetically resistant to yellow fever. This is the primary reason that European began buying slaves from Africa instead of impressing the poor of Europe or the native populations.

One must suppose a certain amount of horrified schadenfreude on the part of Memphis’s African-American population. Certainly watching the whites drop like flies must have seemed like divine retribution or at least it would have had not such plagues been so common. In the end African-Americans kept the city running and they saved the lives of thousands of whites who would have perished from neglect had not the African-Americans remained by their sides and tended them. With 70% of the white population affected, there wasn’t enough white manpower to care for the ill.

Or there’s always the Modest Proposal solution.

:oD