The Southern Hemisphere already went through its annual flu season with the novel H1N1 “swine flu” virus without the swine flu vaccine. Swine flu cases were few, mostly mild, and deaths were low in number compared to a typical flu season. Unaffected by reality, the potential for more than doubling the annual profit-taking from vaccine and anti-viral sales has driven northern hemisphere media hype on a scale never before seen.
Focusing on disease creates disease; focusing on health creates health. This is “the placebo effect.” The negative aspect of it is called “hypochondria”. When medical students develop the symptoms of every disease they’re studying it’s called Med School Disease. Applying the basic principle of the placebo effect to advertising, it’s clear why there is always a health crisis in the news. Enough money, spent quickly, can be brought to bear upon the problem.
Does the flu vaccine provide an ideal placebo to counter fears created by daily bombardment of propaganda or do flu vaccines actually create the health crisis by increasing the number of flu cases?
Over 90 years have passed since the “Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 killed at least 20 million. Some estimates range as high as 100 million dead at a time when 100 million people were five percent of the world’s population. We are long overdue for another intense flu pandemic in which, five percent or more - a minimum of 300 million - will die,” or so we are told. Once again, media scare stories, promoted for years, predict a killer flu pandemic this fall and winter, growing more likely by the day - unless vaccines “save us” from the horrible potential of the deadly novel influenza virus.
In March, 2009 the first case of influenza alleged to be swine flu occurred in Mexico and a long planned media blitz was released. The swine flu virus is said to have DNA of pigs from two different continents, bird DNA and human DNA. We are expected to believe this swine flu virus is a natural mutation. It is highly unlikely that such an unnatural mixture of DNA from three different species has formed a killer “virus” that has occurred naturally.
The I.O.’s monthly articles related to the swine flu have pointed out that in 2005 the virus associated with the 1918 pandemic was re-created in an Army facility at Fort Detrick, MD. The 1918 virus was described as having an H1N1 chemical signature and was a mixture of swine, bird and human DNA. What is not mentioned is that the assorted DNA virus was likely created by accident in 1918 by mixing typhus vaccine stock, cultured in pigs and eggs, and then injecting it into soldiers. It is no surprise that the concoction contained assorted DNA. Also not mentioned is that the deaths in the pandemic of 1918 were mostly due to intensive vaccination combined with overdoses of aspirin; not to a Spanish influenza virus.
Chicago Homefirst Health Services director Dr. Mayer Eisenstein reported that in 1918 the U.S. Surgeon General, the U.S. Navy, and the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended the use of aspirin just before the October death spike. Karen M. Starko MD in her article Salicylates and Pandemic Influenza Mortality, 1918-1919 Pharmacology, Pathology, and Historic Evidence (Clinical Infectious Diseases 2009) added, “High aspirin dosing levels used to treat patients during the 1918-1919 pandemic are now known to cause, in some cases, toxicity and a dangerous build up of fluid in the lungs, which may have contributed to the incidence and severity of symptoms, bacterial infections, and mortality. Additionally, autopsy reports from 1918 are consistent with what we know today about the dangers of aspirin toxicity.”
A vaccine for the 1918 swine flu virus was prepared in 2005 shortly after the 1918 virus was re-created. On November 6, 2005, vaccine manufacturer, Novartis, filed a provisional patent application stating: “The influenza virus may be a reassortant strain, and may have been obtained by reverse genetics techniques.”
In August 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) admitted that in 2007, vaccine manufacturers in Europe added “mock-up” virus to the seasonal flu vaccines, stating, “Mock-up vaccines contain an active ingredient for an influenza virus that has not circulated recently in human populations and thus mimics the novelty of a pandemic virus. Such advance studies can greatly expedite regulatory approval.”
Then in March, as the swine flu emerged from Mexico, European labs discovered flu vaccines made by Illinois-based Baxter International contaminated with H5N1 [Bird Flu]” (see March, 2009 I.O.)Baxter claimed the contamination was accidental after a Czech subcontractor tested the vaccine on ferrets and they all died. It is obvious the “novel H1N1” flu virus is not a natural virus but a laboratory created chemical mixture that was spread worldwide by last year’s flu vaccine all of which admittedly contained “H1N1-like” and “H3N2-like” viruses.
The 1918 pandemic consisted mainly of non-influenza related deaths; no recent genuine pandemic of influenza has had high death rates; and flu vaccines do not prevent flu (see June, 2009 I.O.) Clearly, preparing for a “big pandemic” is an exercise in marketing, not public health protection.
The fear of an influenza pandemic created by media hype resulted in vaccine mandates. Health care workers in New York State were mandated to take both the seasonal and swine flu vaccines. Fortunately, on October 17, 2009 a judge issued a temporary restraining order on the mandate. Other employers – mostly health care – have threatened employees with firing for failure to take flu vaccines. Grassroots activism has lead to mass opposition, even by healthcare professionals at the highest levels. In England, a third of nurses have stated they will not take the swine flu vaccines. Two large media polls of 28,000 people in Finland reported that 75 percent of the people said they won’t take it, and a third survey resulted in 61 percent saying no to the vaccine. Reports claim that as many as two-thirds of U.S. healthcare workers are also refusing both flu vaccines.
In every issue since March 2009, The I.O. has warned against the possibility of forced vaccination campaigns and quarantine for those wise enough to refuse the vaccines. Intensive activism has paid off in letting officials know that mandated vaccination is not acceptable. Yet several states have placed more restrictive laws authorizing the mandating of vaccines and quarantines onto their books, with Maine being most conspicuous. Documents for carrying out quarantine orders for Iowa and Florida have surfaced on the internet originating from a Center for Disease Control (CDC) website. U.S. military personnel are being mandated for both flu shots.
It is too early to tell if the swine flu panic will encourage governors to throw caution to the wind and mandate vaccination in their states. At the moment, we are taking the cautious optimistic view that grassroots activism has averted the worst scenarios. Maine officials, stung by criticism, released a notice that neither the seasonal nor swine flu vaccines would be mandatory, unless the situation becomes more serious; but as snakes are reputed not to die until sunset, continuing activism is necessary to prevent contagious insanity from spreading.
As of mid-October, media reports of swine flu are increasing at an artificial rate. Panicked parents and school officials are insisting that every child with a cold be regarded as a potential swine flu carrier. Some schools have even closed, such as occurred recently in Post Falls, Idaho with half the staff sick and a third of the students staying home. The media neglects to mention whether either staff or students were vaccinated in the previous two weeks. Likewise, the media does not estimate how many school closures might never have happened if not for the artificially inflated fear level manufactured by a combination of misinformation and ill-intended greed-driven propaganda. The panic over swine flu has paid off handsomely in creating a real epidemic of fear-generated disease.
The first flu vaccine distributed this fall was MedImmune’s FluMist®. Propaganda that FluMist is safe and effective has masked the fact that FluMist causes flu-like symptoms in the vaccinated and that recipients may shed virus to others for up to 21 days. Even the manufacture admits to the possibility of secondary transmission of the virus.
Trial data in the package insert confirms that one or more flu like symptoms occur in 58 percent of children 2-6 years of age following the first nasal administration. Fevers occur in 13 percent, muscle aches in 6 percent, headache in 9 percent and sore throat in 11 percent. Sure sounds like the flu. Injectable flu vaccines also carry warnings that flu-like symptoms follow injection of influenza vaccines. If manufacturers of vaccines admit their products produce flu-like symptoms, what drives the continued use of a product guaranteed to fail for the recipient? Answer: Most people do not ask the right questions and have no understanding of the faulty premise upon which the vaccine paradigm is based. Thankfully, people are beginning to wise up after seeing too many lies being generated by the WHO and CDC regarding both vaccine safety and effectiveness. The amazing amount of money being poured into hyping up a non-existent pandemic with dangerous experimental vaccines as a solution has resulted in unprecedented numbers of people standing up and saying no, not only to mandatory vaccinations but also to voluntary acceptance of flu vaccines. We may be moving closer to the day when Vaccination Liberation’s guiding light, “the only informed choice, complete avoidance and refusal” receives universal recognition.