WWII Spanish Flu pandemic would have been a holocaustic Allied 'sin of omission'

In the middle of WWII, the Allies medical-scientific-industrial-governmental elite secretly and wildly gambled with the lives of the entire planet.

Fortunately for all of us, Mother Nature cut them an undeserving break and a dying doctor's protests finally brought them to their senses ---- but that still won't have removed the sin of willful omission from their conscience when they met their Maker.

Throughout history, large long wars have always led to acute hunger and hardship which in turn leads to plague and pestilence.

By the fourth year of WWII, the Allies knew that war was history's largest and could well be on its way to being the longest as well.

Pandemics could be thus expected : so was the world any better equipped in 1943 than it was in 1917 to deal with infectious disease?

The world's doctors in 1940 or 1941 would have answered overwhelmingly yes - thanks to an ever increasingly flow of amazing new synthetic Sulfa drugs.

But in the Fall of 1942, Sulfa researchers were told by the most successful team creating new Sulfa variants against infectious disease that for well known chemical bond reasons, that well had run totally dry.

Other Sulfa specialists also began reporting widespread bacterial resistance to the existing Sulfas.

Currently these doctors were still curing patients by using ever larger doses to overcome this resistance, but since Sulfa is relatively toxic, a larger and larger dose would soon mean risking killing the patient before it killed the disease.

But the situation was actually far, far, far worse than anyone under the age of about ninety can begin to imagine.

Today bacterial resistance to drugs is far more widespread than back then.

But today we luckily have dozens of different drug family choices in our current arsenal.

In addition, we have literally hundreds of earlier - effective - drugs that we dropped for various reasons, that we could go back to confident that their long absence from the scene means that bacteria are not currently resistant to them.

In 1943, there was only the one Sulfa family of drugs - lose them and the world was once more totally naked to dying in the tens of millions from bacterial pneumonia brought on by the Spanish Flu virus.

'What about penicillin', you cry ? A very good point.

Discovered way back in 1928 by Fleming, while was it still missing in action, at the height of a terribly bloody war, fifteen fracking years later ?

Well, what was actually discovered in 1928 was natural - public domain - penicillin , which could be freely made by anyone anywhere.

What eventual Nobel winners Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and the rest of the Allie elites were holding out for -- all the while a bloody war cried out for penicillin's lifesaving help ! -- was a pure secretly-patented synthetic penicillin, so only the Anglo-American Allies would know its secret formula.

During the war, they planned to use it as a top secret weapon of war : to limit, as much as possible, its wartime production and distribution to lightly wounded frontline Allied troops after the D-Day invasion began, to give the Allies a vital manpower advantage over the Germans still stuck with the failing Sulfas.

This violated common decency and the Geneva Convention on the use of medicine in wartime, root and branch, but they held no moral doubts on the rightness of their course.

After the war, the Anglo-American patented control over vital lifesaving penicillin would become a weapon of so called 'soft diplomacy' and an enormous commercial bonanza to America and Britain.

So essential was 'Patented Penicillin' to their vision of the postwar world, the American Congress which very rarely okays foreign treaties, signed a treaty with the British, dealing its shared exploitation.

Contrast this with postwar atomic bomb & atomic energy, which had no such Anglo-American treaty over their shared development !

The German Hunger Plan to kill thirty million in the USSR was never totally carried out, while the German effort to kill six million of Europe's Jews was.

So we all remember the Holocaust's sin of commission --- as we should.

But we should also remember both the German Hunger Plan and the Allied Patented Penicillin Plan as equally morally horrendous sins ------albeit of willful omission....