Swine Flu Fear

Like a bad penny, the Swine Flu keeps coming back to our attention. 

In a previous article, it was my contention that the Swine Flu “Pandemic” was a manufactured global disaster that was waiting in the wings.  The World Health Organizations declaration of Pandemic was both premature and reckless.   This organization diagnosed a Pandemic when only 68 deaths were confirmed worldwide and 1000 people were suspected of carrying the disease.   The Department of Homeland Security got in on the act almost immediately by declaring a National Health Emergency that was announced by Napolitano herself at a news conference.

As I stated in the previous article, in the 1990’s 36,000 people a year died from the common flu.  During the 1968-69 outbreak of the Hong Kong flu, 750,000 people died in that one year span and 500,000 in Hong Kong alone were infected.  Compare that to the current numbers and a case for pandemic cannot be made for the H1N1 virus. 

If you are afraid of the Swine Flu then the current fear mongers in government and media are doing their jobs well.  I’m not talking about conspiracy theories here.  I’m talking about propaganda.  If you are afraid of the swine flu I have one question for you:  Why?

H1N1 is a new strain of an already existing virus known as Swine Flu.  We had a swine flu outbreak in 1974, and a pseudo (think fake) outbreak in 1947.  These are not even blips on the Pandemic scale.  There is a lot more energy generated by the fear of this flu than there is actual danger from contracting it. 

Of course I’m not an expert, but common sense will tell you that something stinks to high heaven with this entire mess.  As of October 23^rd, 2009, fully 13 months after its genesis, the swine flu is responsible for 5,382 deaths globally.  Assuming a world population of 6 billion, that’s a 0.000000897% mortality rate.  Now, compare that with the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918-1919.  The world population then was at around 1.6 billion and the mortality totals were difficult to obtain but were put between 20-100 million people globally.  This equates to 2.5% of the world’s population.  This total was reached in 2 years.

I could give you example after example of things that have better odds of killing you than the current outbreak of swine flu but I won’t insult your intelligence.  You get my point. 

Obama announced a “National Emergency” (already announced by Napolitano months ago) with predictable timing.  Not only does this current administration need to get our eyes and ears off it’s laughable attempts to steer the foundering economy, but it’s a nice segue into keeping alive the desire to bureaucratize national health care.  The media and the government are scaring you with visions of a virus right out of Stephen King’s “The Stand”, when in reality it’s a straw man argument for quarantines and enforced vaccinations. 

I have not had a flu shot in 32 years and I don’t plan on getting one anytime soon either.  When they come to my door wanting to vaccinate, I’ll just say thanks – but no thanks.