CNN, which once claimed that it was “the most trusted name in news,” is playing on the public’s pandemic related fears by arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic is now more deadly than the Spanish flu in 1918. 

It’s an inaccurate comparison, but one that fits the news agency’s pro-vaccine agenda quite nicely.

The article dramatically starts, “Despite all the scientific and medical advances of the past 103 years, the Covid-19 pandemic has now killed more Americans than the 1918 flu pandemic did. 

“More than 675,000 people in the United States have died from Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. That surpasses the estimated US death toll from the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century.”

To make its case, the news outlet highlights an obvious difference: the U.S. population is at least three-times what it was in 1918. However, it fails to go into detail about comparing the actual death tolls vs. population, which is a more accurate comparison.

The estimated death toll for the Spanish flu was 675,000, which was 0.6% of the U.S. population. Updating for the current population, about 0.2% of the population has died. (Now, that might seem rather backwards, but 0.6% is closer to 1% than 0.2%.)

But does CNN do the rather simple mathematical calculations necessary to give the public a better and more accurate perspective. No. Instead, it immediately pivots and blames unvaccinated Americans.

The article argues, “Back in 1918, there was no pandemic flu vaccine, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

“Now, Covid-19 vaccines are available — but millions of eligible Americans have not been vaccinated.”

The article then shifts to discuss technology. Now, if you were thinking that this section would cover the rapid growth and expansion of modern air transportation, dramatically expanding the reach of any virus, you would be wrong.

The real problem is “misinformation.”

Stephen Kissler from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health said, “The internet can be a double-edged sword. It provides us with the opportunity to receive the CDC and the World Health Organization (updates) and to share information much more quickly. But that also means we can spread misinformation quickly as well.”

Of course, it’s the dreaded so-called “anti-vaxxers” that are at fault. Not that people can access information more readily than ever before and ask legitimate questions about the vaccine development process, what’s in it and how it might impact future generations due to a rushed production.

Also, what about developing treatments. Why is the only avenue forward to create a virus?

CNN does finally move on from weird science to actual history, stating that young people were particularly vulnerable to the Spanish flu. 

This is true. I know, after all this misinformation it’s amazing that CNN can actually get something right. 

Even in 1918, the penchant for the second wave of the Spanish Flu to go after young people, those in their 20s and 30s, was incredibly unusual. Interestingly enough, the strain that was so deadly to young people was part of the virus’ second wave.

But, in case you were wondering whether or not you need the vaccine, CNN still wants you to know that if you are under 50 and in a low-risk age group, “young people can still be hit hard.”

Thank you, CNN. Good to know that you care.

Of course, this is all a matter of “personal responsibility.” If the various state restrictions were still in place “almost every new COVID-19 death could have been prevented through vaccination,” at least that’s what the director of the useless Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. 

Is that really true? At least in the case of my family, my grandmother would probably still be alive if family members were allowed to visit with her in the hospital and the nursing home in the fall of 2020. But since she did have COVID and was asymptomatic by the time she went to a hospital after a fall, she would be counted among CNN’s and John Hopkins statistics.

Her real cause of death was more accurately “failure to thrive.” Sadly, she spent the last weeks of her life in a hospital without family members where she essentially gave up on life. 

COVID does kill people, I’m not disputing that, but how many times was that a secondary factor to other risks someone had? What were the co-morbidities? For example, how does weight, drinking, smoking, diabetes, asthma and other conditions and lifestyles impact deaths? 

Most frustratingly, how many of our elderly people died because they were barred from seeing family members in order to “protect” them from the dreaded disease? 

Honestly, I would argue that the restrictions and the unnecessary panic killed more people than COVID itself. But don’t tell CNN that. 

No, it’s all the fault of unvaccinated. The website that promotes abortion propaganda, “my body, my choice,” does not extend that to those who question the necessity of a vaccine when they are at low risk.

But CNN is no longer about getting the news, it’s about pushing an agenda and twisting history in order to do it.