Dr. Mercola February 14 2008 121,366 views
Last year, the number of human cases of avian flu dropped rather than rose for the first time -- from a paltry 115 in 2006 to an even more insignificant 86 in 2007. Frightening headlines warning of a pandemic that could kill 150 million people have all but vanished.
Although some “experts” still argue that preparations against bird flu must continue, many are finally beginning to realize what I said all along -- that this overhyped, oversold “pandemic” was never a threat in the first place. According to Dr. Paul A. Offit, a vaccine specialist at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, “H5 viruses have been around for 100 years and never caused a pandemic and probably never will.”
Still, according to this New York Times article, scientists and governments are congratulating themselves for averting a threat that never was by stockpiling worthless vaccines, pointlessly culling hundreds of millions of birds, and pouring money into preparation efforts. I can only imagine that the flu vaccine manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank.
The case of “the impending pandemic of the Avian Flu” might as well have been a fictional mini-series made for television, but as usual, reality is stranger than fiction. It would be hard to make up a story as filled with greed and political corruption as this one.
Back in 2005, headlines warned the U.S. was facing a cataclysmic extermination event, with a calculated two million Americans succumbing to the bird flu; the best case scenario taking only 200,000 lives.
Photos of overflowing hospital wards from the 1918 flu epidemic heightened the fear factor to a fever pitch.
Well. A fool does in the end what the wise man does at the beginning, and this would certainly apply here. Reviewing the scientific facts is often a good place to start, but that did not happen in this case. Somehow they were able to translate the minuscule deaths that had occurred worldwide into somewhere between 200,000 to 2 million deaths from a virus that does NOT readily spread from birds to humans, nor between humans.
Most of the people who acquire the infection were, and still are, bird handlers in continuous contact with sick birds. How did anyone in their right mind envision similar circumstances in the United States? Research like this would typically be thrown in the trash if it did not strongly support some ulterior purpose.
What might that purpose have been?
Try greed.
At $100 per dose, the U.S. used taxpayer’s dollars to purchase some 20 million doses of the highly questionable Tamiflu, lining the pockets of then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who was president of Gilead Sciences when they created the drug.
A Dangerous Cure for a Phony Danger
Interestingly, the use of Tamiflu, and the vaccinating of poultry may actually cause the H5N1virus to mutate into more dangerous and potent viral strains.
Since the purported “outbreak” of bird flu, the Tamiflu vaccine has also been linked to the deaths of 12 Japanese children, some of which suddenly jumped out of buildings. Neuropsychiatric incidents in children, including seizures, loss of consciousness, and delirium were linked to the vaccine.
Fools Rush In Where Fools Have Gone Before
In 1976 the U.S. acted out a very similar saga, devising a vaccine program for the impending swine-flu -- the avian flu threat of that time -- where they vaccinated 5 million people. The hastily contrived program for swine flu resulted in hundreds of Guillain Barre Syndrome paralysis victims and countless deaths for a flu pandemic that never materialized.
So, we’ve been here before.
Which is why countries such as Switzerland -- who have stockpiles of bird flu vaccine that they plan to test on soldiers, police officers and health care workers before deciding whether to offer it to all Swiss citizens -- really should take a good look at the history of what usually happens when you indiscriminately inject questionable vaccines into large groups of people for a disease that doesn’t pose any real threat.
I Was Right About the Bird Flu Hoax
I was so convinced this was a deceptive scam that I wrote an entire book on the subject; The Great Bird Flu Hoax. In it I explained how:
Preventing ALL Flu’s Without Vaccinations
I have not caught the flu in 20 years, and you can avoid it too, without getting vaccinated, by following these simple guidelines, which will keep your immune system in optimal working order so that you’re far less likely to acquire the infection to begin with.
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You're absolutely right on Russ. I just viewed Michael Moore's "SICKO" and it ties in well w/ Dr. Mercola's article. We certainly can't trust drug companies or our elected officials, it seems; many have left the political arena after ensuring laws were passed that benefitted the drug and insurance companies, to highly paid positions for corporations in those fields. If you haven't yet seen tha documentary it IS a must see for anyone interested in health care.
Yeah and I'm still wondering how that can't be construed as a conflict of interest!!
Countryclassic49,
I wouldn't use anything of Micheal Moore's to bolster anything. He's the biggest Hollywood political lying hack there is! I believe the much larger problem is the 'Billion-dollar-a-day' market of statin drugs, and the FDA's complaisantcy to harm and kill a hell of a lot more people than what is being discussed here with the bird flu. The biggest political bend I see hear is not the amount of money a company makes or if ex-politicians now work for these companies. ALL of these drugs do not go out to us and the unsuspecting public in the U.S.A. without the FDA's approval. So, our fight should start there, with the FDA not doing their job and stopping these drugs before they go out to doctors and us. Wouldn't you agree?
I have just finished viewing Michael Moore's "SiCKO" after it was mentioned in the comment by "countryclassic49". This documentary really feels like a 2h infomercial about the benefits of the universal health insurance/coverage. Now I understand what "potter1958" was talking about when characterizing Moore's work.
Trying to understand the motivation behind movies like this I started to think about what the universal health care really means. In todays world I always start by looking at the flow of the money. The doctors, the drug companies - everybody in the industry gets paid by the goverment-run or sponsored health insurance companies, what gets paid from the money collected from the people and employers in the form of taxes or insurance premiums, what is usually calculated as a percentage of one's salary or other income. The goverment usually pays the premiums for anybody without income so it needs to collect so much more from the rest of the payers. These features make this coverage affordable for everybody what in turn immediately increases the size of the market (~ +20%)and profit potential for the health care industry just by covering the uninsured under the current system. This arrangement would also hide the true costs for any treatment even more than the current system does. No treatment would be refused (within reasonable limits) what further increases the income of the health care industry.
The way I see it just by looking at the history of health care related political decisions in the U.S. big money owning the health care industry will go after this nice market size increase pushing for the universal coverage. Take a look at the proposed health related programs of some of the presidential candidates.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Yes....the proverbial red herring as well as "divide and conquer": keep everybody arguing and fighting each other and viola! Nobody pays attention to what's really going down.