Posted on 10/17/2009 12:56:23 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
As evidence continues to mount that swine flu is more of a piglet than a raging razorback, why isn't curiosity mounting as to why the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic? And definitions aside, why does the agency continue to insist we're going to get hammered? The answers have far less to do with world health than with redistribution of world wealth.
Medically, the pandemic moniker is unjustifiable. When the sacrosanct World Health Organization (WHO) made its official declaration in June, we were 11 weeks into the outbreak, and swine flu had only killed 144 people worldwide--the same number who die of seasonal flu worldwide every few hours. The mildest pandemics of the 20th century killed at least a million people worldwide. And even after six months, swine flu has killed about as many people as the seasonal flu does every six days.
So how could WHO make such an outrageous claim?
Simple. It rewrote the definition of "pandemic".
The previous official definition (and widely used unofficial one) required "simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness." Severity--that is, the number--is crucial, because seasonal flu always causes worldwide simultaneous epidemics. But four years ago, the agency simply eliminated severity as a factor.
That's also how we can have a "pandemic" when six months of epidemiological data show swine flu to be far milder than the seasonal variety. New York City statistics show it to be perhaps a 10th as lethal.
In Australia and New Zealand, flu season has ended, and almost all cases have been swine flu. Yet even without a vaccine, these countries are reporting fewer flu deaths than normal. (In New Zealand, that's just 18 confirmed deaths compared with 400 normally.) Swine flu is causing negative deaths! The best explanation is that infection with the
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yitbos
100% true.
They really are genuine WHO socialist NWO conspiracies.
I understand.
Anyone who wants to surf through the thread I updated can decide for themselves.
yitbos
Poor guy is analyzing statistics that do not exist. They are not keeping track of the number infected. They are not keeping track of the number who die nor who come out handicapped. He has no idea of how dangerous or safe this virus is.
yitbos
How could anyone state there is a pandemic without scientific data on the disease? How could anyone state there is not a pandemic when there is no scientific data on the disease?
That is the theme of the article: bogus panic
yitbos
The whole basis of the article is that there is no pandemic. They do not know this as there is no data either way.
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