The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration is considering pushing for all Americans to get 3 flu shots this Fall – “one to combat annual seasonal influenza and two targeted at the new swine flu virus spreading across the globe.”
So is this part of a stimulus package for autism treatment centers, or what?
It is bizarre that the Obama health policy wizards would presume that there is no risk for loading Americans with newly invented, unproven “vaccines.” (The 1976 swine flu vaccine had disastrous effects for legions of Americans).
David Burd, a medical technology consultant and retired patent examiner, sent me some incisive comments on the hoopla:
Our Authorities are putting on a fantastic show – truly professional – herding the 300 million American sheep. The only actual swine in the current Flu Episode are all the Medical Leaders. Maybe this should be called the Sheep & Swine Flu.
In actuality, the millions of tests now ongoing for this new H1N1 “strain” are just finding what humans have had forever, with some having a higher density of antigens/RNA that passes a newly created testing threshhold. However, what is new it is looked for! And, despite the hysteria proving to be barely pathogenic, if at all. And, repeating the great public relations’ success of hiv-testing, looking for something we all have but calibrated (grading on the curve) to only elicit a tiny percentage of “positives.” Hey!, this proves it is contagious or infectious! Shut down the schools! Quarantine the hotels! Close the movie theatres! Wear your mask! Spend $billions on antivirals! Be ever grateful to our Health Leaders! Get your flu shots!!!
Most of the Mexican “flu” fatalities, I would bet my favorite hat, are directly caused by antiviral medicines that are truly a new medical disgrace. All one has to do is look up their admitted toxicities and side effects – demonstrably all risk – no benefit, ala the hysterical, farcical, SARS episode.
My hunch from our conversations and his writings is that Dave is not a big fan of the medical establishment. I think the politicians and bureaucrats also deserve heaps of blame in this still-unfolding debacle.
as long as all the morons take their vaccines there’s no need for me to. I think I saw somewhere that more people died of the vaccine in ’76 than the flue.
I thought you’d get a giggle from this Reuters headline
“Afghanistan’s only pig quarantined in flu fear”
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5444XQ20090505
That’s never going to work out. So far, the FDA has not approved ANY flu vaccines for use against swine flu, and the standard influenza vaccine is powerless against it. So this isn’t going to last long.