Swine Flu: New Pandemic Or Just Makin' Bacon?

(This is a portion of the newly released "Chapter 3" from the author of the book "The Sanctity of Human Blood", Dr. Tim O'Shea... a colleague of mine. The rest of the chapter is found at http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/swine/swine-flu.php)

"So predictable, within the context of smallpox, anthrax, SARS, avian flu. As predicted 4 months ago in new 13th ed. of the vaccine book, we knew the next orchestrated health crisis was coming [4] - we just didn't know what it would be called. Disappointing really that they lacked the imagination to come up with a brand new global panic; so all we get is a re-run of the 1970s swine flu fiasco.

Unlike the hysterical media, let's define our terms first, instead of just assuming everyone knows historically what swine flu really is.

HISTORY OF SWINE FLU

Back in 1975 a soldier at Fort Ord CA died in a training exercise on a very hot day. A very mild virus that came to be known as swine flu virus was found in his body, though never proven to be the cause of death. Just as probable he died of overexertion, since it was a very hot day and they were on a training exercise. The virus was a member of the H1N1 virus family reportedly found in hogs, which had not previously been transmitted to humans. So nothing was known of its virulence or its ability to cause even a local outbreak, let alone a global epidemic. There was no evidence that it could be a serious disease for humans. [3]

Notwithstanding those facts, the National Institutes of Health took up the case, and massive media coverage hawking the beginning of a global pandemic was conjured up out of nothing. Even though there were no further cases, during the next several months a swine flu vaccine was quickly created. The vaccine was never tested in any large setting. Abundant data were available however documenting the dangers and unpredictability of this untested new vaccine. Little wonder: the new vaccine wasn't even made from the original mild swine flu pathogen.

Because they were under the gun in trying to get the vaccine out ASAP, the vaccine makers merged the natural H1N1 swine flu virus with an extremely virulent manmade strain in order to make the vaccine more reactive in people. [3] Though the dangers of the powerful new vaccine were well known, the next sequence of events showed how human health is always subordinate to the agendas of political immunology.

Now it just so happened that in July 1976, by an unfortunate coincidence some 221 people in a Philadelphia hotel came down with a mysterious disease that was immediately dubbed Legionnaires Disease. 34 of them eventually died with the cause of death unknown. As luck would have it, this was right at the same time that NIH had just decided not to go through with recommending the swine flu vaccine for everyone.

These two unrelated events became tied together in the game of political immunology. Here's how it happened:

At first Congress would not approve the mass swine flu program because the vaccine manufacturers said they wouldn't accept responsibility for any people damaged by the new vaccine. So the NIH had decided to shelve the swine flu program. [3]

But meanwhile the media behind Legionnaires Disease became more and more intense day by day, eerily similar to what is going on today. There was a growing suspicion, based on nothing and fostered by the shrill and irresponsible media, that Legionnaires Disease might actually be swine flu. The policymakers were under intense political pressure to "do something." So in a few midnight sit-downs during a four day period, three things suddenly were hastily decided:

1. The Legionnaires Disease cases were definitely not swine flu

2. Congress decided the government would accept responsibility for any deaths or damages from a swine flu vaccine program

3. The next day the mass swine flu vaccine program was adopted.

Everybody was happy with this solution:

* no more worry about the possibility of 2 epidemics
* everyone would be protected from swine flu by the vaccine
* the vaccine manufacturers got to make several million dollars
* the FDA and NIH had once again saved the American people from disaster

Unfortunately it didn't quite work out as expected: 565 (possibly over 3,000 actually paralyzed) of the newly vaccinated people became paralyzed from a nerve disorder called Guillain Barre syndrome, 25 of whom died. So the swine flu vaccine program was halted in just 10 weeks, after over 40 million people had received it. Their original goal had been to vaccinate the entire population. No one but that one soldier ever died, and there was no epidemic of swine flu, even though the media at the time estimated that up to 60 million Americans could become infected unless they vaccinated. [6] So get that: after the money was spent, the threat disappeared.

Eventually the government paid out almost $400 million in claims. [3]

To recap, the enormous swine flu vaccine program of 1976 - the worst vaccine disaster in US history - was set into motion before swine flu had ever been validated as a serious disease for humans, let alone proven capable of causing an epidemic.

UP TO SPEED: APRIL 2009

So what happened recently? We have conflicting reports of several hundred Mexicans 'infected' with swine flu, 150 of whom are 'believed to have' died from it. And now we're also beginning to see reports of each day more and more people in the US have come down with the illness, supposedly 70 cases, at first, then more. And then the first US deaths.

From these slim allegations, endless unsubstantiated inferences and predictions are being spun:

* - A global pandemic is in the offing
* - Thousands of Mexicans will die first
* - Americans are dying
* - A vaccine is in the wings
* - Tamiflu is being ramped up to save us

WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW?

With the track record of mainstream media during the past several years regarding panics and pandemics, there is precious little reliable information available to us. The first and most important question that must be addressed has to do with the newly reported numbers. Thousands of people get the flu each day and recover from it, and some people who are already sick may die from it. But suddenly here we have media alleging that a novel flu virus causing a brand new disease is afoot. So the only critical issue when reporting these new cases must be: were the patients cultured for the new disease?

And secondly, cultured for what?

Here is the first jumping off point - departure from reality: within just one week of the 'outbreak' the media had begun its daily tally sheet of numbers infected and numbers dead, which will establish the scorecard pattern we're so familiar with in tracking any disaster. What are they counting? There is no screening test for the disease!

No culture protocols, no titer amounts, no incubation periods set,

and what is most important, no specific pathogen has been identified. Without a specific pathogen, there is no epidemic.

H1N1 is a family of viruses, dozens of viruses. So the national media is stating all these numbers of cases of the disease when there is no verifiable method for specifically identifying the disease. The cases are being diagnosed by symptoms. This is precisely what happened with the nonexistent Avian flu of 4 years ago. [5] If we're diagnosing by symptoms only, then any case of any flu can be counted. And that's exactly what is happening here.

Did anyone think it rather odd that the first cases of swine flu were coming from Third World areas of Mexico where even basic medical services are often lacking, let alone a sophisticated screening test for a brand new disease, a procedure which would take months to create, even in the most modern of clinical settings? So once again we ask, without a screening procedure, what are they counting, in Mexico, in Texas, wherever? And exactly what distinguishes these new cases that are being hourly hawked by every single media service in the known world, what sets these cases apart from ordinary flu cases?

The other question no one is asking is this: what was the incidence of flu in these Mexican towns the same time last year? How about last month? Do you see - without a very specific viral screening test, the numbers mean nothing, except as fuel to the media fire.

So going just this far, it doesn't take much reasoning to grasp that we're being set up here. Unfortunately this is much farther than the majority of the unlettered public will question it.

But we're just getting started with the inconsistencies. What about the pathogen itself?

H1N1 - A FAMILY OF VIRUSES

Let's start at the beginning. In classical pathology, influenza is a disease that is associated with a family of viruses known as orthomyxoviruses. Within this group we have Influenza A, Influenza B, and Influenza C viruses. What separates viruses into these 3 groups is the type of antigen present in the virus. [7]

Now, within the Influenza A category is a smaller grouping called the H1N1 viruses. There are dozens and dozens of strains of H1N1. The CDC has tested over 50 different strains of H1N1. [9]

Let's just stop there. For an infectious disease to be identified and characterized, it must be proven to be caused by a specific single pathogen. The original 1976 swine flu vaccine contained 2 viral strains, one of which was the pathogen that had supposedly been identified as the cause of swine flu.

Now in the recent 2009 outbreak, they just realized in the first week that they shot themselves in the foot by calling it swine flu. Since there was no epidemic in 1976, and since obviously no pathogen was ever correctly identified, in light of the ensuing vaccine debacle, it's quite clear that swine flu never existed.

So, irrespective of the pig farmers, that's why Obama found himself in the absurd position of trying to change the name to H1N1 - it was a marketing mistake to associate the new disease with that past swine flu disease, which proved to be nonexistent. By admitting the virus has never been isolated in a pig, they just confessed to the fundamental error of the 1976 vaccine program: that there was no such thing as swine flu.

So where does that leave us? To call the new disease H1N1 flu is also meaningless, for 2 reasons

- the original Mexican cases were not cultured

- there are dozens of strains of H1N1

So what are all these people coming down with and dying from? Simple: the flu! There is no proof otherwise of any novel pathogen, H1N1 or whatever, introducing any new disease. It's all allegation, conjecture, smoke and mirrors, and marketing. The new cases have nothing in common except diagnosis - and that's being done by symptoms, not by testing. ..."

(See the rest of the chapter at http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/swine/swine-flu.php)
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