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THE SWINE FLU “PANDEMIC” TURNS OUT TO BE NOTHING OF THE SORT

“All of humanity is under threat”, said World Heath Organisation director-general Dr. Margaret Chan in April 2009 as the WHO, reacting to H1N1 virus – swine flu – raised its alert level from phase 4 to phase 5. The UK Government’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson said that “Phase five indicates that WHO considers a global pandemic to be imminent.”

Flash forward to January 2010. Wolfgang Wodang, head of health at the Council of Europe, says that the H1N1 virus was “a mild flu and a false pandemic…It’s just a normal kind of flu. It does not cause a tenth of deaths caused by the classic seasonal flu.” Instead of the forecast 65,000 deaths in Britain, 360 have died.

Wodang blames the drugs companies, believing they orchestrated a “campaign of panic” to pressurise the WHO into declaring a pandemic so that stockpiles of vaccine would be ordered and claiming that some people in the WHO are too closely associated with the pharmaceutical industry.

“The great campaign of panic we have seen provided a golden opportunity for representatives from labs who knew they would hit the jackpot in the case of a pandemic being declared.”

Are drugs companies solely to blame? What about those politicians desperate to be seen to be doing something, even if it turns out to be utterly pointless? What about the newspapers, which love a good scare story? What about the scientific “experts”, who too rarely claim poo-poo such things as being mere storms in teacups.

A parliamentary question in September 2009 put the cost of tackling swine flu at £1 billion. That much has now been spent on vaccines which appear to be largely useless. According to Wodang, the “vaccines were developed too quickly. Some ingredients were insufficiently tested.”

It’s not as if this has not happened many times before. Remember SARS? Remember bird flu?

According to Dr. Shiv Chopra, a former senior scientific adviser to Health Canada: “No flu vaccine has ever worked. Swine flu, we don’t even know there is such a thing. It’s a misnomer. Avian [bird] flu, these are all made-up things. The whole thing is a hoax. It has been for the last 10 years.”