Posted on 04/30/2009 9:26:18 AM PDT by SlaveNoMore
Now, let me get this straight. Several hundred people get the flu in Mexico and 150 Mexican nationals die, now lowered to seven. A few Americans get the flu, 91 people at last count, but no one dies. A Mexican toddler did die in Houston, but had undisclosed other "underlying health issues."
Even before this number reportedly died US Pravda, otherwise known as CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, etc., hyped the "flu pandemic" story up to astronomical levels. Here we go again! The sky is falling, the sky is falling! BE SCARED! TERROR, TERROR! CRISIS! BE AFRAID! ...
Does anyone buy this line anymore? We have a pandemic alright, a "fear pandemic."
Are you aware that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens die each year from influenza and pneumonia? Excuse me a minute while I change my surgical particle mask and guzzle some more Tamiflu.
What happened to the Hope and Change and "the end of the politics of fear?" If we keep having so many crises, there's really no point in living. I feel like I'm cast in a never-ending soap opera, and I might as well end it all now.
But, is there possibly another motive behind all of this chicanery? As a result of each "crisis" immediate action had to be taken. After 9-11 we received the Patriot Act that allows warrantless government surveillance of not only foreigners but American citizens as well. Who needs the 4th Amendment anyway? We also received the Department of Homeland Security, yet another federal police force. DHS ignores millions of illegals and terrorists openly operating in the U.S. while labeling veterans and conservatives as "terrorists" or "right wing extremists." Exactly when did being right become extreme anyway?
Later, we had the "credit crisis" and we got TARP, or is that TRAP? As a result, the Federal Reserve, a private corporation which is as federal as Federal Express, leaves U.S. taxpayers on the hook for TRILLIONS of dollars without having to explain where the money went. That number is now over 12.8 TRILLION DOLLARS. The Federal Reserve has great power over the value of our money and the direction of our economy and yet does not have to disclose its operations to the American people. In fact, the Federal Reserve apparently doesn't have to answer to Congress, the President or anyone.
There is currently pending in Congress H.B. 1207 calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve, something that has never occurred since its inception in 1913. The bill currently has 100 co-sponsors and may very well pass. I'm certain the foreign banker owners don't want this to happen. Cockroaches do tend to flee when the light switch is turned on!
Recently, the "stimulus" bill, another whopping $787 billion, passed because of the dire emergency. One thousand pages of eye-popping pork that not one congressman even read. The bill had to be passed right away or we would fall off the edge of the earth, even though "The One" didn't sign the legislation until 4 days after returning from his vacation.
Then, there was the uproar over the AIG bonuses. The public was instructed to focus on $165 million in bonuses to camouflage the 10s of billions that were shipped to foreign banks. Remember, they're the Fed, they transfer the money and you pay the amount back the amount lent, with interest of course. Move along there's nothing to see here.
Does anyone else see a pattern here? Everytime there is a "crisis" more of our rights are confiscated and we get the short end of the stick.
Maybe it's time that "we the people" start issuing terrorist alerts, with a focus on the domestic variety. Particularly, the financial terrorists.
Apparently, we're supposed to be frightened out of our minds because of the flu, and the media is now preparing the public for the potential of mandatory flu innoculations. TIME magazine is also soothing the public for this possibility. While discussing the mandatory flu vaccination debacle during President Ford's administration, the TIME article does have an interesting quote by Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. Markel states, "the political climate in the U.S. is much less combustible today than in the post-Watergate era, when Ford faced a skeptical public. Even so, he says, citizens still need to trust that the government is working for the greater good." What planet is this guy from?
Now, the federal government has chosen Baxter International to develop a vaccine for the swine flu. Never heard of Baxter? Why this is the same company that gave the world HIV infected treatments in the 1980s and more recently sent live avian flu in vaccinations to 18 European countries. I feel safer already.
So what are we supposed to ignore while focusing on this latest "crisis?" Does the government not want you to focus on the dismal quarterly economic data? The continued rising unemployment? This week's vote on the preposterous $3.5 trillion budget? Forget about the concerns over the unbridled Federal Reserve?
Oh, I forgot. I'm not supposed to think. I'm supposed to be terrified.
Can I have another sip of that Kool-Aid?
Sorry but yes and yes.
I am waiting for Congress to burn, to make the emergency real good.
That is my word to the wise: always ignore panic calls from sources that will profit from panic and have repeatedly shown themselves to be wrong when calling for panic. Remember SARS, avian, west nile, and go about your life as you normally would.
FIRST — Since when do Vanity posts belong in “BREAKING NEWS”???
Do you honestly believe the whole world is “in cahoots” with Obama and that this is all a manufactured crisis? If so, I have a bridge to sell you, or some land in Florida...
Yes, we need to pay attention to what’s going on in Washington, but to pretend this isn’t serious, or that it’s not a crisis is naive...
To pretend that what we’re hearing through the media now that it’s “no big deal”, compared to what doctors, and scientists are saying privately would be idiotic, IMO.
PANIC - not good
DISMISSAL - even worse
Again, the whole WORLD doesn’t revolve around Obama, and it didn’t even originate here... Will he use a crisis for his own gain - why of course. Did Obama manufacture all the media, the national agencies now working on specialized vaccines and such, too?
As for me and my family — we are prepared, being prudent, using common sense, and paying attention... And, although I’ve done a lot of posting on these threads because it is INTERESTING to me personally, doesn’t mean I’m ignoring everything else in the WORLD.
Both of those statements are false. I can understand your apology for the falsehoods, but why apologize and then repeat them?
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Here’s the problem. It’s 2008. Try to grasp that there have been medical advancements in the last 90 years.
Good grief!
Remember the plague. Today it’s only a few doses of medication back to full health.
Nobody said there couldn’t be another serious infectious outbreak, but this constant bleating of SARS is going to kill us, the Bird Flu is going to kill us, the Swine Flu is going to kill us, serves nobody well.
As the writer of this vanity stated, our rights get chopped down a bit with each new crisis.
Why are otherwise sane people so damned willing to play into the insanity that allows that?
For later...
Let’s see... SARS, West Nile, MRSA, Bird Flu...
Just the next silliness in an already silly world. From what I’ve read, 500,000 die from influenza every year world wide with between 30,000 and 40,000 being in the USA.
Wake me up when we see some real danger.
BINGO !!!
(follow the money)
For the other readers who might come across that garbage and think it has merit.
i have too many friends who are docs to dimiss this out of hand as made up.
B. S.
Both of those statements are 100% true, that was the polite correction of your false statements.
You think MRSA is silliness?
Good grief.
Hey Strategerist, get a load of this.
“Never Waste a good crisis.” And now if no pandemic happens, Obama can take all of the credit for avoiding it.
Righttt...Anesthesia, analgesics like aspirin, the discovery of x-rays, the beginnings of modern surgical techniques, the understanding of bacterial and viral diseases, the discovery and understanding of genetics....Sure, none of these things made medicine different in 1918.
Try again, razorboy.
I’m so miffed about them calling this swine flu that it’s not even funny anymore... This is not “SWINE FLU” — pig farmers, those in rural areas and vets KNOW swine flu, and have known it for a LONG, LONG time.
More appropriate common names:
1. Chimera Flu (credit to my daughter for that one)
2. Mexiflu
3. ManBirdPig Flu
But why was the ceremony performed in Mexico? What the 'scientists' say is in opposition to what the politicos are saying. WHY? And again how did it miraculous happen that 5 known different viruses come together in Mexico? I do not know but there is NO cogent logical theme here, but there is an apparent attempt to spook a whole mass of peoples.
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