20090910

Swine Flu

Argentina just revived after being paralized for a few months about the Gripe A or Swine Flu.

I have serious doubts about this whole craze and will try to explain why:

The UK NHS is not very alarmed and the CDC says: 'At this time, most people who have become ill with novel H1N1 in the United States have recovered without requiring medical treatment and have experienced typical flu symptoms.'

And then there is Tom Jefferson who worked for the Cochrane Collaboration. He claims that the WHO has changed its definition of pandemic to make this flu to be classified differently (Read all of it!).

So why exactly does the WHO put the whole world in a level 5 alert (some say we should be in 6)?

CNN money gives us a nice intro of the subject.

Wikipedia states that yearly some 500'000 people die from flu. So while only 255 people died from birds flu (in 9 years) this was reason enough for mass murder of livestock, and mass stocking of medicine. This is at least suspicious. Although I think this story is a bit overdone on the conspiracy end, it does point out the usefulness to the media manipulators of another subject at this post-Bush era.

It can go wrong as well.

By the way the name is stupid. Flu is always coming from birds and pigs.

Not that it's bad that people think about those around them en cover their mouth when coughing....

Update Monday, 25 January 2010 WHO uit scherpe kritiek op critici

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