· “The death toll of the H1N1 [swine flu] virus could reach 50 million – as high as the Spanish Flu of 1918, according to John McCauley, of the National Institute For Medical Research.”-- London’s Metro newspaper, 4/26/09 (the article was accompanied by a picture of Mexican police wearing masks and holding machine guns.)
· “The latest crystal-ball decree (May 8, 2009) out of the World Health Organization and the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) is that 2 billion humans (one-third of Earth’s population) could be infected this fall and winter with the current swine flu virus or its genetic derivatives.”--Journal of Whole Food and Nutritional Health, 5/13/09
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On April 29th, the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the global alert status to phase five, indicating that a pandemic, was imminent.
· “It really is all of humanity that is under threat,”-- Margaret Chan, director-general of the WHO
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Once again, the message got through:
· “Intense media coverage of the swine flu has driven a pandemic wave of fear across our nation and world. Following the CDC's recommendations, people with a cough or a cold are staying home from work, some paralyzed by fear that they might die in the impending pandemic being predicted by newspapers and TV news programs around the world.”-- National Intelligence Examiner, 4/28/09
· “The media machine did its job, the government handed over billions for more vaccines and vaccine technologies, and, of course, many of the sheep obediently put on masks and fearfully ran off to doctors to be tested. When this has run its course, bureaucratic agencies will be slapping themselves on the back, affirming that all the systems worked ‘as planned.’ They turned the crank; the world danced to their tune.”--Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO, NewsWithViews.com, 5/4/09
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One of the first casualties of the swine flu outbreak was the notion that our government is capable of protecting us from deadly diseases by quickly detecting and containing them before they can spread.
· “[N]o one was less alert than the disease controllers in Atlanta. According to the Washington Post, the CDC did not learn about the outbreak until six days after Mexico had begun to impose emergency measures.”-- Mike Davis, Guardian, 4/27/09
· On April 6, 18 days before the WHO issued its alert, Veratect [a Washington state biosurveillance company] reported [and notified the CDC and WHO about] ...a strange outbreak of respiratory disease in La Gloria, Mexico, noting that local residents thought the outbreak was linked to contamination from pig breeding farms nearby.
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The main difference between the Bush Administration’s Bird Flu scare and the current outbreak of Swine Flu is that this time there is actually a human influenza virus spreading around the world--though it has not turned out to be as deadly as advertised.
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