12-06-2011, 12:36 PM
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A post I made on BRF two years back on 13 Dec 2009:
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According to statistics, 36,000 people die in US yearly due to regular flu. If the current trend of swine flu deaths (approx 2400 in 8 months) in US is extrapolated to a year, with some extras thrown in, it will come to less than 4,000.
According to WHO's report, about 8,000 deaths have occurred worldwide in about 8 months. Also, according to their data, 300,000 - 500,000 people worldwide die every year from regular flu.
And swine flu is classified as a pandemic!!
In fact, the Department of Health in US had declared a nationwide emergency in April 2009 when there were only 4 cases reported and 0 deaths. In May, WHO changed the definition of pandemic to remove the phrase "enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses" to bring the swine flu into the "pandemic" category. CDC stopped testing for swine flu in the US in July because they realised that it was not epidemic.
Meanwhie, International media goes out and creates the panic worldwide, and national media followed suit. (Heck I went out and bought twenty sets of surgeon masks myself!!). Media doesn't report yearly data on deaths due to regular flu, and so the comparatively much lower swine flu deaths being reported came as a shocker to people.
At a lower level, two things can be considered. (1) There is an obvious pharmaceutical connection. The big pharma stand to make millions from vaccines. (2) Also, for health agencies like WHO and CDC, positive budget justification is inversely proportional to a healthy populace, and so pandemics increase their importance.
Reports of side-effects of the swine flu vaccines on those taking them have started surfacing.
A post I made on BRF two years back on 13 Dec 2009:
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According to statistics, 36,000 people die in US yearly due to regular flu. If the current trend of swine flu deaths (approx 2400 in 8 months) in US is extrapolated to a year, with some extras thrown in, it will come to less than 4,000.
According to WHO's report, about 8,000 deaths have occurred worldwide in about 8 months. Also, according to their data, 300,000 - 500,000 people worldwide die every year from regular flu.
And swine flu is classified as a pandemic!!
In fact, the Department of Health in US had declared a nationwide emergency in April 2009 when there were only 4 cases reported and 0 deaths. In May, WHO changed the definition of pandemic to remove the phrase "enormous numbers of deaths and illnesses" to bring the swine flu into the "pandemic" category. CDC stopped testing for swine flu in the US in July because they realised that it was not epidemic.
Meanwhie, International media goes out and creates the panic worldwide, and national media followed suit. (Heck I went out and bought twenty sets of surgeon masks myself!!). Media doesn't report yearly data on deaths due to regular flu, and so the comparatively much lower swine flu deaths being reported came as a shocker to people.
At a lower level, two things can be considered. (1) There is an obvious pharmaceutical connection. The big pharma stand to make millions from vaccines. (2) Also, for health agencies like WHO and CDC, positive budget justification is inversely proportional to a healthy populace, and so pandemics increase their importance.
Reports of side-effects of the swine flu vaccines on those taking them have started surfacing.