To see how are enemies in the socialist public health establishment are playing us just like they are playing us re: global warming/climate change, see the following (and esp. my profile page)!
Swine Flu — It’s Not the Killer You Think It Is
It's the flu, folks, not the plague
The following email blast from Dr. Peter Duesberg several years ago on the endless hysteria created around a myriad of "impending" flu pandemics that never materialize is also instructive:
"The reason why the Flu was so successful in 1918 was primarily the “terrain”, namely the millions of immuno-deficient hosts and hostesses starved and stressed by 4 years of war.
Secondarily, one can speculate that the 1918 flu strain may also have been a “new” recombinant to the 1918 population and thus more successful than a more established seasonal strain may have been. As I found in 1968, flu, unlike practically all other animal viruses, has multiple RNA segments, equivalent to multiple chromosomes and thus can readily form new recombinants - the reason why we have seasonal flus, but have measles, mumps, polio, pox etc. only once in a lifetime.
Thirdly, the odds that the Centers for Disease Control alias World Health Organization ever predicts an epidemic prior to its arrival are not good: They have predicted in past several years numerous epidemics or “pandemics” such as the flu, the hanta-virus, anthrax, the rotavirus, the Ebola virus, the West Nile virus, “mad cow” epidemic, the Sars-virus epidemic, an epi-pandemic of “random, eg. heterosexual non-drug user-AIDS” - but none of these ever materialized (see, Inventing the AIDS Virus, Regnery publishing, Washington DC, 1996). The last one that came close to an epidemic was polio in the 1950s and that was not predicted by American public health scientists.
Fourth, the currently hyped prospective Flu pandemic has long missed its chances. It has been hyped almost daily in the San Francisco Chronicle since November. But all that happened was a dead chicken in Nigeria, a hamster in Germany, two sick (dead?) kids in Turkey, a euthanized swan in Sweden, several dead or euthanized chicken in Iraq (Yes Iraq!!) etc. That is not the pattern of a potential killer microbe. All “new” killer viral or microbial epidemics of the past have spread exponentially within weeks to months and then declined exponentially owing to the induction of immunity or death of susceptible hosts - take Albert Camus’ “Plague” as a classical example.
The current Flu propaganda is thus a mix of ignorance and and self-interest and an exploitation of general ignorance by the CDC, WHO, the vaccine, pill and test-kit manufacturers of our universities and pharma companies, and of our “science” journalists, who need to fill their daily columns - and must sell their aging vaccine stocks before they decompose and their Tamiflu pills before the summer. But despite hyping in dozens of microbial Godots - no Godot has come since polio. People are just too well nourished these days, and thus have optimally maintained immune systems, for microbes to attack more than just the fringes of the ever growing human herd. That in fact is their historical share. The 150 million+ Flu pandemics are hype for fund raising by the ever more costly science/health armies in search for real enemies. Their success is based on the invisible monsters of the microbial epidemics of the (earlier) times, when nutrition lacked vitamins, proteins and sanitation or was lacking all together - and on the never failing microbial and viral horror phantasies of our science writers, politicians and Hollywood producers.
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The media proved it’s irresponsiblity in the 08 election. It continues on.
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Y2K
Again, I don’t have my AIDS ping list, so if you know anybody who is interested in how our enemies in the socialist public health establishment operate (who are the biomedical equivalent of the climate change fanatics)—a.k.a. the non-alarmist perspecitve, please ping them!
it’s everywhere it’s everywhere
I think there should be more panic. People should stop buying pork products until my freezer is fully stocked. They should also stop flying until I’ve had a chance to purchase plane tickets for all my trips in the next 6 months.
Is a pig's arse pork?
Just another of the endless ‘crisis’ that the Obamathugs and their media flunkys use to distract the people. A government of liars.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Film at 11.
Since January the regular flu has killed over 17,000 in the U.S.
The Swine Flu has killed 1 and that person was not even an American. We are closing schools over the Swine Flu. I have seen pictures of masked church quires because of the Swine flu. We have a VP telling people not to fly or take a subway, because of the Swine flu. You bet we are overreacting.
I respectfully differ with my esteemed Freeper colleague. Being prepared for disasters including epidemics is the core of self-reliance and is a “conservative” course of action. At this time I am happy that H1N1 did not turn out to be the killer that it appeared to be. Yes, the MSM LOVED it because they love disasters. The Obama Administration showed itself to be incompetent; no surprises there. Some day we’re gonna get hit by the Andromeda Strain. It will probably be something cooked up in a third world lab by a terrorist with poor personal hygiene. Better to be prepared.