How they larded H1N1 facts with fear

Months of dire swine flu warnings were a dangerous, disruptive cry of “wolf” for an ailment Canadian health officials knew would be a mild, manageable beast.

That’s the pointedly caustic judgement of Dr. Richard Schabas, a one-time provincial health officer who says flu experts knew in July that H1N1 would hold little threat for Canadians this fall.

Schabas, now Medical Officer of Health for Hastings and Prince Edward Counties, says many of his colleagues fed a credulous media with worst-case warnings while downplaying the flu strain’s relative weakness.

“I think the media has to get its head around just how massive an overplay this was. I am quite sure that there has been more high-level coverage of this than all other health stories combined.”

By the time this second H1N1 wave peters out in December, it will have killed between 200 and 300 Canadians – making it one-tenth as lethal as the seasonal flus that strike the country annually.

What’s more, Schabas says, evidence from the southern hemisphere, where the flu is a spring and summer scourge, conclusively anticipated this comparatively low death toll.

In particular, H1N1’s May and June run through Australia, which mirrors Canada in its health care capabilities, showed the virus was a temperate one.

“By their measures, things like physicians’ visits and the like, this was no different than a usual flu year,” says Schabas of the Australian experience. “In fact, it was milder.”

But even after its terrifying Mexican debut in April, where it was blamed for hundreds of deaths, health officials knew that H1N1 had no apocalyptic potential.

“Within about a week of the first stories out of Mexico, it was becoming clear that the death toll (there) was in the order of hundreds, not tens of thousands,” Schabas says.

“And a mild pandemic in Mexico would be expected to kill 30,000 people.”

Schabas says accumulating evidence of the ailment’s mildness indicated conclusively by early July that it posed no pestilential threat.

Schabas also contends there was no evidence the virus was capable of rapid mutation, of morphing into a more lethal strain.

That the disease appeared to be targeting the young was worrisome to many and gave credence to the ominous public health pronouncements.

But this too was a canard, says Schabas, who argues that young people are always more apt to catch influenzas and that the incidence of H1N1 appeared higher among them largely because many elderly people had pre-existing immunity and didn’t get sick.

As with almost any flu, however, young people’s robust immune systems are able to fight off the infection in the vast majority of cases, Schabas says.

And the tragic death of 13-year-old Toronto hockey player Evan Frustaglio, which galvanized the nation’s attention on the disease, did not warrant the ensuing panic.

While mortality rates among people 20 and younger in Canada will be slightly higher than in a normal flu season, the actual number of deaths among healthy youngsters will be in the range of just seven, Schabas says.

“The risk of a young person being killed by a car in Ontario … is 100 or more times higher than the risk of being killed by H1N1.”

Finally, Schabas argues, public health officials have cried wolf many times in the recent past, with bird flu, West Nile and flesh-eating disease warnings. Even SARS killed just 800 people worldwide, he says, when deaths in the tens of millions were being forecast. Such “fear mongering” undermines their credibility.

Schabas says there is a growing medical consensus that some apocalyptic plague is lurking out there – in a Chinese poultry farm or an African jungle – just itching to swoop down on humanity. But all such fears have proven false in the past and are unlikely to be warranted in the future.

“For the past five or six years, lots of public health officials, nationally, provincially, internationally, have been warning people about the dreaded bird flu pandemic. It hasn’t happened, it hasn’t killed anybody in the Western hemisphere.”

A proper media role, Schabas says, is to remind health officials of their past pronouncements and to throw a blanket of scepticism over future pandemic fires.

And any hyperventilating coverage of an H1N1 “third wave” – predicted for the spring – would be a sham, Schabas says.

“They (health officials) sound like burnt-out surfers sitting on a beach, watching the waves go in and out and arguing the next one will be better.”

Reported By: Toronto Star

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Teen Diagnosed With Guillain-Barre Syndrome After Swine Flu Shot

A high school athlete from Virginia was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome hours after receiving a swine flu shot, but health authorities are attempting to dismiss the connection as a coincidence, precisely as they resolved to do long before the H1N1 vaccination program even started.

14-year-old Jordan McFarland developed severe headaches, muscle spasms and weakness in his legs following a swine flu shot. He was diagnosed by doctors at Inova Fairfax Hospital as having Guillain-Barre syndrome, the nerve disorder that was prevalent in recipients of the vaccine during the last mass swine flu vaccination program in 1976.

“Connin and Jordan’s father, Calvin McFarland, both 38, believe the shot sparked the illness that came on 18 hours after the boy’s vaccination,” reports MSNBC.

Despite GBS’s clear historical link with the swine flu shot, allied with the fact that health officials back in August warned neurologists that they needed to look out for increases in cases of the brain disorder following the launch of the immunization program, asked about the case of McFarland, the CDC’s Dr. Claudia J. Vellozzi claimed that there was “no clear link between the new vaccine and the disease.”

Efforts on behalf of health authorities to claim that debilitating side-effects and nerve disorders such as GBS have no connection to the vaccine, despite the fact that they are clearly listed on vaccine inserts as potential dangers, is unsurprising considering this is precisely what officials resolved to do before the swine flu mass vaccination program began.

Back In September, Reuters reported on how public health officials were expecting “an avalanche of so-called adverse event reports, which are reports of death, illness or other health trauma,” in the two weeks after people receive the vaccine.

“We are going to be overwhelmed with potential events,” said Mike Osterholm, a public health expert at the University of Minnesota.

Authorities therefore resolved to dismiss any connection to the swine flu shots a host of heart attacks, strokes and miscarriages that “will be blamed on the H1N1 vaccine,” effectively performing a blanket diagnosis months in advance.

Earlier this month, the U.S. government appointed what the media ludicrously billed as an “independent” group of health advisors who were tasked with whitewashing adverse reactions to the swine flu vaccine and ‘explaining’ them to the public as mere coincidence.

The group is headed up by none other than Dr. Marie McCormick of the Harvard School of Public Health. McCormick and her affiliated organizations have routinely issued reports over the past 10 years supporting the government’s position on the link between vaccines and autism, dismissing a correlation entirely despite overwhelming evidence that contradicts this notion. McCormick has been widely criticized by other health experts for her dogged denial of the link between vaccines and autism.

So far from being “independent,” the group is in fact appointed by the government and lead by one of the government’s chief whitewash proponents in the context of vaccine dangers and side-effects.

Pharmaceutical companies can be assured that they won’t face reprisals for injuries and deaths that will inevitably occur as a result of exposing millions to mercury and squalene additives that are contained in the H1N1 shot during a mass vaccination program, because the government has already acted to provide them with blanket immunity from lawsuits.

“Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine, under a document signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius,” reported the Associated Press back in July.

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Netanyahu punks Obama.

It did not take the Israel Lobby long to make mincemeat out of the Obama administration’s “no new settlements” position.  Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is bragging about Israel’s latest victory over the US government as Israel continues to build illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

In May President Obama read the Israelis the riot act, telling the Israeli government that he was serious about ending the Israeli conflict with the Palestinians and that a lasting peace agreement required the Israeli government to abandon all construction of new settlements in the occupied West Bank.

On November 10 Obama’s White House chief of staff, Rahm Israel Emanuel, surrendered for his boss at the annual conference of the United Jewish Communities.

The ongoing Israeli settlements, he said, should not be a “distraction” to a peace agreement.

Allegedly, the US is a superpower and Israel is a client state whose very existence depends entirely on US military and economic aid and diplomatic protection.  Yet, in the real world it works the other way.  Israel is the superpower and the US is its client state.

This true fact is proved to us at least once every week and sometimes two or three times in one week.    A few days, ago the US House of Representatives voted 344 to 36 in favor of disavowing the UN report by the distinguished Jewish judge Richard Goldstone that found that Israel had committed war crimes in its attack on the civilian population in the Gaza Ghetto.  The Israel Lobby demanded that the House repudiate the fact-filled report, and the servile House did as its master ordered.

US Rep. Dennis Kucinich spoke to his colleagues for 2 minutes in an effort to make them see that their vote against the Goldstone report would be a great embarrassment to the US government and demean the House in the eyes of the world.

But none of that matters when Israel gives its servants an order.  The US House of Representatives preferred to demean itself and to embarrass the US Government rather than to cross the Israel Lobby.

Retribution quickly fell upon Kucinich for his 2 minute speech.  On November 9, Kucinich was forced to withdraw as the keynote speaker for the Palm Beach County (Florida) Democratic Party’s annual fundraising dinner. The Israel Lobby gave the order—dump Kucinich or there’s no money and no one is coming to the dinner.  County Commissioner Burt Aaronson called Kucinich “an absolute horror.”

Kucinich is the rare Democrat who stands up for his party’s principles, the working class, and tried to get health care for those Americans the corporations have thrown out on the street. But helping Americans doesn’t count.  Israel über alles.

Meanwhile, the US dollar continues to decline relative to other traded currencies.  Since spring, anyone could have made a double-digit rate of return betting on most any currency against the US dollar.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently expressed concern that despite the dollar’s continuing slide, it might still be over-valued.  The Federal Reserve’s low interest rate policy encourages speculators to use the dollar for the “carry trade.”  Speculators, whether individuals or financial institutions borrow dollars at rock bottom interest rates and use the almost free capital to purchase higher yielding instruments in other countries.  The demand for dollars to finance the “carry trade” keeps the dollar higher than it would otherwise be.

Last year it was the Japanese Yen that was used for the “carry trade” due to the practically zero Japanese interest rates. The next scare that unwinds the “carry trade” will cause another big drop in financial asset values.  This means that the stock market is very volatile.  It is based on speculation, not on fundamentals.

When the “carry trade” next unwinds, the demand for US dollars to pay off the loans will temporarily boost the dollar.  But don’t be fooled.  The large US trade and budget deficits are the dollar’s death warrant.

When the dollar finally goes, so will the government’s ability to conduct wars of aggression, underwrite Israel, finance its red ink and pay for imports.  That’s when the printing press will really get going.

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