HEALTH: Milking the masses – the economics of ‘pandemics’



The Situation

The world is in massive panic over the latest disease outbreak, known as the Swine Flu. It is impossible to turn on the TV or pick up the newspaper and not see some report detailing devastating data on how many more people have become infected.

Initially, there were a number of prominent individuals who were sceptical of the latest outbreak. Their scepticism was based on the previous public scare campaigns initiated by the media, such as the Millennium Bug, SARS and then the Bird Flu, which all turned out to be fizzers. Now it seems that their presumptions were correct and that the Swine Flu is not all that its cranked up to be.
Amazingly, The Washington Post published a startling admission of the hype back in April. "Of course we're doing too much to scare people," said Mark Feldstein, a former correspondent for NBC, ABC and CNN who teaches journalism at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. "Cable news has 24 hours to fill, and there isn't 24 hours of exciting news going on. If you scare people, they'll tune in more."
It is hard to gauge an accurate number of deaths at present. The W.H.O. has a history of inflating statistics to suit their agenda, which includes global vaccinations. They have already been caught out once during this latest Swine Flu saga, being forced to admit back in April that the 150 plus death toll was actually just seven.
Part of the problem stems from the vague symptoms of the Swine Flu, which can range from a slight fever, sore throat, coughing, runny nose or headache. The symptoms are so generic that amid the panic, many other diseases are wrongly being labeled as Swine Flu. As at 29th May, the W.H.O. death-toll hadn’t still cracked 100, and was fading as fast as George Bush’s popularity.
Parallels with past ‘outbreaks’

SARS was the first hyped outbreak to hit the news. Images of people wearing ridiculous face masks were splashed all across the media channels. Scared stiff by the news reports, almost all overseas travel was cancelled and the airlines suffered huge losses. But in the end only around 800 were reported as having succumbed to the disease.

Seeing how well the fear campaign went, the world elite decided it was the perfect opportunity to make some money out of the ‘sheeple’s’ stupidity. The next virus on the agenda was the Bird Flu, with media reports forecasting that it would kill over 100 million people worldwide.

Top scientists were roped in to playing their part in the act, predicting that the worldwide spread of the Bird Flu was an ‘absolute certainty’ and ‘inevitable’, with the odds of a global outbreak of the avian flu at 100 percent. Once again, the death estimates were horribly overstated, with just 260 people ending up dying from the Bird Flu.

One of methods used to promote the virus fear campaign is the careful name selection and blame on an animal. Mad cow disease, Bird flu, Swine Flu and AIDS being the monkey virus. What’s next, Fish Flu?

Another factor is the linking with a fancy sounding scientific name. Just like the bird flu was called H5N1, Swine Flu has been given the name H1N1. The final similar characteristic is the death toll estimates, as once again the number of people expected to perish from the Swine Flu being in the millions.

Public and government stupidity

You would think that preventing the outbreak of a disease is fair enough, but some of the measures implemented by international governments are just plain ridiculous. Travel restrictions are being imposed and it is plain to see the reasoning behind these decisions, but there have been many incidents where the reasoning has been missing altogether.

China, Russia and Indonesia are just some of the countries to have banned pork imports, even when there is no risk of contracting the Swine Flu from eating pork. The Egyptian government went a step further and ordered the slaughtering of 300,000 pigs, despite the knowledge that the virus can not be passed from pigs to humans.

Many tourists unfazed by the Swine Flu are still wanting to travel and holiday in Mexico, especially in areas totally unaffected by the outbreak. Unfortunately the Mexican government is sending them home, with the threat of being incarcerated if they do not comply with orders.

In what seems to be an overreaction to their SARS experience, the Hong Kong police ordered a luxury hotel to be sealed and its 200 guests and 100 staff quarantined for seven days. The amount of heavy handed government tactics being reported in the media is outrageous.

There have even been widespread reports backed by scientific evidence that shows this is a deliberately engineered virus being spread by the US government. The reports claim the flu was created in a lab as an advanced biological warfare DNA genetically engineering virus, and released on the public with ulterior motives.

Funnily enough, the face masks the public are in such a mad rush to wear, offer absolutely no protection against these ‘viruses’. It’s a bit like a naked person putting on clothes before jumping into the water, thinking that the clothes will stop them from getting wet. This is why people these days are referred to as ‘sheeple’. Like sheep they just follow, rather than thinking for themselves.

A frightening example of the public being caught up in the hysteria occurred recently in Argentina. A man on a bus stopped at the Chilean border showed flu-like symptoms and the bus was ordered to take him to a nearby hospital. Outraged, the residents of the town rioted and attacked the bus and police with rocks in an effort to have him taken elsewhere.

The real worldwide diseases

It is interesting to note that these harmless ‘virus’ outbreaks such as the Swine Flu receive massive media coverage, while the real worldwide diseases which are actually killing people every year receive no coverage whatsoever.

Tuberculosis – Kills two million people every year

Malaria – Over 500 million people affected every year, with two million of the infected dying.

AIDS/HIV – Around 40 million suffers and growing, with around five percent of those dying every year.

Respiratory Tract Infections – Just in America, 11,000 people die each year from these infections, so you can only imagine the global deaths. This is a far cry short of the total 800 worldwide deaths for SARS.

Normal Seasonal Flu – Kills 36,000 people each year in America alone, with around 500,000 globally in a normal year. These figures pale into significance the current Swine Flu death toll.

To really put the miniscule Swine Flu death toll in perspective, ten times more people are dying due to falling on slippery pavements in Finland, than people are dying worldwide from the Swine Flu.

The reasons behind it

There is one main reason behind the Swine Flu, and that’s money. There are many, many people becoming very rich over this, including a number of prominent US politicians. These are the same politicians that made a bucket load of cash from the Bird Flu, as they are some of the major shareholders in the companies that own the patents to the vaccines.

When the Bird Flu was announced, the makers of Tamiflu saw a gigantic increase in sales of their vaccine, as governments rushed to stockpile it and prevent an outbreak. With enough vaccines purchased to ‘treat’ millions of people, there was of course a lot of unused stock when the Bird Flu failed to eventuate.

Now that the expiry date has been reached on most of the vaccine stock, it has come time to sell another round. The media panic was initiated and unsurprisingly the governments once again flocked to stockpile the vaccines. US President Obama recently asked for an extra $2 billion to combat the Swine Flu, meaning that both he and his buddies will handsomely profit from the deal.

The present situation brings back memories of the 1976 Swine Flu fiasco, when the US Government used the death of a single soldier at Fort Dix as a pretext to introduce a nationwide vaccination program. Thirty people died from these vaccinations and scores more suffered permanent physical damage, including developing Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

If you are wondering what the end result of the last Swine Flu was; you may be shocked to hear that the death toll never rose above one. The current day US equivalent of $500 million was spent to combat the outbreak, so somebody obviously made their fortune. Once again history will repeat itself, with the politicians and pharmaceutical companies standing to reap massive profits from the Swine Flu.