Sir Charles Herbert Stuart-Harris (1909-1996) wrote a book: Influenza and other viruses of the respiratory tract. Stuart-Harris believed that influenza was caused by a virus but Chapter 6. Epidemiology of influenza is extremely interesting and provides plenty of evidence that it is not even contagious let alone caused by a ‘virus’.
The page Influenza and weather puts forth the hypothesis that influenza is not caused by a virus at all but instead is the result of a destabilised bio-regulation which is in turn caused by electromagnetic disturbances in the atmosphere. The data and arguments presented by Stuart-Harris were not collected with this hypothesis in mind and so cannot be said to be biased towards it.
It is interesting therefore to compare this hypothesis with the comments from Sir Charles concerning the observed epidemiology.
Chapter 6: The epidemiology of influenza
“Historically, influenza has been recognised by its power of rapid dispersion throughout the population of whole countries and by the explosive character of its epidemics. Yet, small localised outbreaks with little tendency to spread outside of the affected community have long been known to occur, nor has the individual epidemic feature of influenza invariably been explosive.”
This is the opening paragraph of the chapter, the words chosen by the author himself to summarise his findings. Although he still believes in a viral cause, his priority is to emphasise the puzzling nature of the epidemiology with respect to the idea of contagion.
Sudden increase in 1890
“.. there was an apparent lull amounting almost to extinction of the disease in the period just before 1890. Then in 1890, the pandemic caused a sharp rise in the level of prevalence, and incidence has remained ever since at a higher level than before 1890. Super-imposed on the base-line of inter-epidemic incidence, periodic outbreaks have occurred every two to three years and this periodicity has continued up to the present.“
Almost extinction
Time and again we hear from researchers that influenza ‘vanishes’ from the population at least in certain areas (whole cities!) and always needs to be replenished from ‘elsewhere’.
Fortunate for the virus that it never really disappears from ‘elsewhere’ or it would surely go extinct. Also fortunate that once it gets going again there is always someone to infect all of a sudden or else, again, extinction.
We are asked to believe that the survival of the virus is a matter of chance, a statistical coincidence. Maybe this is credible in the modern world of travel and high population density, but a hundred and fifty years ago? Really?
Q: Why does the virus frequently become almost extinct but never in human history has become actually extinct?
A: Because influenza is caused by field disturbances in the atmosphere. The nature and strength of these disturbances vary slightly from year to year and even if the whole world went a year without flu, it would surely return the following season or the next.
Sudden rise in 1890
This has been attributed by Arthur Firstenburg in his book The Invisible Rainbow to the effects of the installation of domestic electricity, with power lines initially laid out over the roofs of terraced houses.
Very possibly. Flu seems to be caused by disturbances from the atmosphere to an electromagnetic bio-field that serves as the master regulatory system for the human body. One possibility is that the electric field from the power cables is affecting this on a long term basis and adding a chronic weakness to the system and another is that the electric field is somehow modulating the annual flu influence, making it more lethal.
Two to three year cycles
“Super-imposed on the base-line of inter-epidemic incidence, periodic outbreaks have occurred every two to three years and this periodicity has continued up to the present.“
This is similar to the epidemiology of measles. See: Measles.
It is not obvious how this happens on a global scale with an infectious pathogen. The disease is seasonal but with variations. This certainly does not rule out the hypothesis that it is the Earth’s magnetic field that is the cause but does not prove it either.
Watching YouTube videos from the Thunderbolts project (Solar filaments and you) it seems that electromagnetic disturbances on Earth are caused by spiral filaments extending all the way from the Sun and these are measurable to a certain degree.
The filaments end at the surface of the Earth where they are manifest in the topsoil as telluric currents. In between the Sun and Earth they are subject to the influences of all of the other planets thereby resulting in all sorts of odd rhythms and synchrony with other planetary orbits.
There is something to test here, if the correct measurements are made there should be some correlation between influenza outbreaks and the activity associated with these filaments.
Disappearance and sporadic outbreaks
“The pattern of prevalence which has emerged from these national statistics has been that of somewhat irregular periodicity both of influenza A and B, with almost complete disappearance of the virus in between outbreaks.“
“Sufficient evidence of sporadic case occurrences exists, however, for it to be said that the virus is not entirely extinct. But, from an incidence only detected by large-scale surveys, the virus infection develops into an explosive outbreak, without any apparent increasing steps of increasing prevalence“
So again the disappearance of the disease is noted and yet it still returns. Use of the word ‘sporadic’ only serves to highlight the fact that these outbreaks are without and apparent cause. Where was the virus dwelling before it became sporadic?
The virus seems to survive between outbreaks but this is almost by definition a time when there is no obvious chain of infection; the incidence of disease is so low (“almost complete disappearance”) that there is little chance of a diseased person meeting a ‘susceptible’.
An explosive outbreak occurs without any obvious preamble and then disappears equally abruptly.
All this is explained by encounters with field filaments which are abundant during flu season but are restricted geographically and with a random element super-imposed upon these patterns to target individuals in or out of season.
The origin and spread of epidemics.
“The second theory concerning the persistence and spread of human influenza is that the virus exists by a continual case-to-case transmission. This presupposes that there is always an outbreak of influenza somewhere in the world and that as influenza dies out in one country, it develops anew in another area.”
Why this presupposition and why does it wait to die out in one place before developing anew in another area? This phenomenon is better described by the idea of an external influence that sweeps across the face of the planet, leaving a trail of sick people in its wake.
Again and again we see that the evidence is not suggestive of a continually transmitting virus and that extra assumptions must to be made to accommodate the idea.
“Yet the major outbreak of influenza A in the USA, Canada and Great Britain in November 1943 appeared to involve geographically remote areas almost simultaneously, and too rapidly for any chain of infection to have occurred”
This is because no infection has occurred and instead the disease is caused by a global collective of field currents that switch on and off according to season, latitude and geographical location.
“One fact established already is that spread of infection from one area or country to another often appears to occur by direct geographical contiguity rather than along lines of communication such as afford a more rapid chance of infection. Yet in rural areas the importance of infection can often be attributed to a particular individual. Pickles quotes the case of the school in Wensleydale which in 1937 suffered an explosive outbreak of influenza forty-eight hours after a schoolmistress returned from a town. No other cases were present in the town at the time. The schoolmistress herself suffered only a mild attack but it was highly probable (Why?) that she was responsible for introducing the virus into the school.”
Again, not suggestive of infection but instead consistent with a moving field vortex that does not respect lines of communication but descends upon the planet according to its own whims, sometimes moving across the surface and at others disappearing from one location only to pop up a hundred miles distant.
Disease as a distinctive regulatory ‘state’
On a severe local outbreak: “Secondly, the infection appeared to exhaust the capacity of the human herd to respond clinically to other ailments and the epidemiological record carries no instance of any other infectious disease during a period of weeks.”
A truly astonishing sentence. Flu seems to confer immunity (of diseases other than flu) not only upon those who suffer from it but also everybody else in the vicinity!
My assertion is that the disease called influenza is the result of an altered regulatory pattern that mainstream medicine identifies as the ‘immune response’. This regulatory disturbance encompasses the whole of the organism and orchestrates all the symptoms experienced for about five days before returning to normal homeostasis.
There is evidence (Measles) that other ‘infectious’ diseases are of a similar nature, showing typical seasonal and geographic patterns.
From this point of view then it seems obvious that a person cannot be in two different regulatory states at the same time and therefore that they are unlikely to display symptoms of two different regulatory diseases simultaneously.
The paragraph quoted goes much further than this though, asserting that even those who escaped the ravages of the disease are somehow not succumbing to other disturbances.
Now this makes sense if there is a close correspondence between disease states and magnetic conditions. The precise conditions needed for each distinct disease are also distinct and hence if it is flu season then it is not measles season; the magnetic field itself cannot be in two different states at once.
‘Immunity‘
“Both these villages suffered relatively more severely from influenza during the previous influenza A outbreak in 1933.“
Reading literature on ‘immunity’ it seems that in general, the regulatory system will recognise antipathetic stimuli and remember them. Quite often we see that upon a second exposure to a field disturbance, the body will respond differently, sometimes with more resilience and sometimes with an increased sensitivity; a disease takes on the aspect of an ‘allergy’.
Reference is made to the “variable incidence of influenza during one and the same epidemic in similar but separated isolated communities” such as boarding schools and army barracks. “There is no apparent reason why a particular school should suffer intensely and a neighbouring one should escape lightly..”
Because the ‘strength’ of the field disturbance is different at each locale and because the local populations have been exposed to slightly different stimuli over the past few years; they have had different immunological training.
Even the individuals who did not get ill were exposed to the disturbances and have therefor had an opportunity to adapt somewhat.
Associations with other diseases
“Apart, however, from the mortality of pneumonia, which may frequently be ascribed to influenza as the primary cause, deaths from all causes rise during an influenza epidemic. Thus deaths attributed to heart disease and to pulmonary tuberculosis both increase if the influenza epidemic is severe.“
Although other so called infectious diseases seem to disappear, there are many correlations in modern literature between influenza and heart attacks, with researchers invariably concluding that a heart attack is somehow a caused by the influenza virus or of the consequent bio-chemical changes within the body.
To be considered though is the possibility that both flu and heart attacks have the same root cause, which is to say a dysfunction of the bio-field triggered by the magnetic field conditions.
The heart may look like a large robust muscle which is not going to be too upset at a change in the weather, but the heart is not a pump and the blood largely flows by itself, controlled by an electromagnetic bio-field. The power for the flow begins in the capillary beds and is fuelled ultimately by electro-magnetism.
The whole system therefore is arguably susceptible to destabilisation by any similar disturbances from the atmosphere or from man made electro-smog. A heart attack here is not a problem of blockage but a problem of an altered regulation; this time of blood flow.
‘Sporadic’ cases and testing failures
“It is true that among the cases of acute respiratory disease occurring endemically in the population at all seasons of the year and in years when outbreaks of influenza do not occur, there are always some cases which could be diagnosed clinically as cases of influenza. Yet these almost invariably give negative results when tested either directly or serologically for evidence of influenza virus.”
If we can only have positive tests during an electromagnetic disturbance then the idea that the tests themselves are affected directly by such field changes should surely be considered at least?
“Moreover, an occasional case of influenza A or B is detected during an outbreak in which nearly all the other cases are serologically positive for the other virus infection. Such experiences have frequently been recorded and are again evidence that influenza can exist as a sporadic case. However, the occurrence of a series of sporadic cases is no presage of an outbreak within a short space of time.“
This is not really indicative of a viral cause. However, Harris continues: “Its meaning is that the virus is still alive in lean times, when the level of immunity is too high for rapid transfer of infection from one susceptible to another.“
Ok, so how did the virus create the sporadic case? It must have come from somewhere! Viruses need to spread in order to survive and if they aren’t spreading then they are becoming extinct.
Consider the famous ‘R’ number, the average infection rate. What value does this number have out of season when there is no epidemic activity? A value greater than 1 implies a spreading disease, an increase in the number of cases and an increase in the ‘R’ number itself. However a value of less than 1 implies imminent extinction for the virus; cases are diminishing and they are diminishing at an increasing rate. To have an ‘R’ number of exactly 1 throughout summer is just not credible.
Viruses cannot survive the summer period, ergo they do not exist.
Summary
All of the observations cited tend to support the idea that influenza is not contagious but that it ‘descends’ upon the population every winter in stereotypical patterns, both seasonal and geographical.
I had not read this paper when I formulated the hypothesis of field vortices so it is a somewhat independent test of the idea. Stuart-Harris himself clearly is a believer in viruses and so is not cherry-picking his facts in my favour.
References:
Influenza and other viruses of the respiratory tract – Charles Stuart-Harris
Chapter 6. Epidemiology of influenza (p. 107 in the PDF)
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.549293/page/n107/mode/2up?view=theater
R number – New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/definition/r-number/
Seasonal variations in coronary heart disease – J P Pell
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10581331/