SWINE FLU SANITY

By Jon Rappoport

I want to highlight two very brief excerpts from a British Medical Journal article (online, Sept. 3, 2009) by Peter Doshi. The title of the article is “Calibrated response to emerging infections.”

Here is the first quote: “WHO (World Health Organization), for example, for years defined pandemics as outbreaks causing ‘enormous numbers of deaths and illness,’ but in early May, removed this phrase from the definition.”

So WHO has successfully maintained the emotional punch of a “pandemic” while cutting the heart out of its essential meaning. The fear is still there, but the logic is gone. Suddenly, a dreaded pandemic doesn’t have to have lots of deaths.

Quite a clever ruse. George Orwell vindicated once again.

By declaring Swine Flu a “global pandemic,” and at the same time redefining and diluting the understood meaning of the word “pandemic,” WHO manages to assume bureaucratic power over the actions of nations, even if the death rate is very small. WHO stays in charge. Debate about the actual severity of the health threat is derailed because, well, it’s already been declared a pandemic. And the level of public fear is maintained.

That is how propaganda works.

From this WHO ruse (and from statistics), we can infer that pandemic Swine Flu as a concept is being propped up by failing to disclose that the “disease” isn’t killing people left and right. Otherwise, why remove “enormous numbers of deaths” from the definition of “pandemic?”

Here is the second quote from Doshi’s article: “On 26 April, with 20 cases [of Swine Flu] and no deaths in the US, the Department of Health and Human Services declared a nationwide public health emergency.”

“Our doctor says our son’s hangnail may be infected.”

“Yes?”

“They’ve closed down his school and buses aren’t running anymore in that part of town.”

“This year, it’s been fairly quiet. No epidemics. No outbreaks. But we’d like six billion dollars more from you people for next year.”

I don’t think so.

So, with 20, TWENTY, cases of so-called Swine Flu, and NO deaths, an effect less than the number of people killed in New York by toasters falling out of apartment windows, the Department of Health and Human Services declares a national emergency.

And the media comply. No questions are asked. Headlines trumpet the news. A new round of fear begins.

The latest US death figure from the CDC for Swine Flu I’ve been able to find is 593. That covers 2009, April through August. Extrapolating that out for a whole year, the death toll would come to 1423.

The CDC claims that every year, roughly 36,000 people die of ordinary regular flu in the US. For this, no emergency is declared. No schools are closed. No plane service is shut down. No threats of mandatory vaccines are made. No preparations are undertaken for “pandemic response.”

Think about these things.

JON RAPPOPORT