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Why waste a good Swine Flu crisis?

Need a crisis? Create one through the media. Swine Flu, it’s more dangerous than the drug gangs in Mexico, more dangerous than the Taliban in Pakistan, more dangerous than Iran going nuclear. At least that’s what the media wants you to think according to their coverage. Let me give you the facts and some perspective before you start running around like chicken little with a mask on and rubbing Purell all over everything.

20,000 - 40,000 Americans die EVERY YEAR from the influenza virus. People are so unimpressed with that statistic that many people don’t even bother getting flu shots. The Swine Flu is just the flu. Guess how many people died in the U.S. from the Swine Flu pandemic of 1976? One. How many people died from complications from the vaccine? One hundred. Before you praise the effectiveness of the vaccines, they were not given to anybody until 8 months after the initial death.

If you get the flu, you take Tylenol for your fever and drink lots of fluids and chicken soup and you’ll probably be fine. If not, go to the doctor. In general, the flu will not kill a healthy person in the United States and so far all the Swine Flu cases in the U.S. have been mild with no deaths. Want to survive the flu? Don’t be poor and live in Mexico.

So why all the hype? It’s a tremendous power grab by the CDC, WHO, and President. The CDC and WHO get tons of attention and money from panicked nations, and guess what happens when the “crisis” fades with very few casualties? President Obama will be praised as a hero for destroying the virus with his bare hands and saving us all. Seriously, they are setting him up to be a hero over a contrived crisis. It’s tremendously clever. He doesn’t have to do anything at all except tell people not to panic because he has it all under control. And don’t for a minute think that this isn’t connected somehow to his plan to socialize Health Care. If he can save us from Swine Flu, imagine what he can do for all diseases.

Mark my words, this crisis is all hype.

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  1. Obama can’t hold a candle when compared to the real and ONLY Messiah (to those of the Christian faith) Who saved them from sin and eternal damnation if they would only believe in him and live in accordance with his teachings.

    1. Don on April 29th, 2009 at 7:15 am

  2. Yeah, I’m getting really sick of everyone panicking over an “outbreak” that in the end is no worse than the common flu. Yes, you can die from it but you can die from bajillions of other things too. Really wish we would examine news like the swine flu outbreak first before deciding to panic because the MSM told us to.

    Sports Fan 4s last blog post..Brett Favre Meeting With Brad Childress, Vikings

    2. Sports Fan 4 on May 8th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

  3. Swine flu is still spreading pretty rapidly

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    3. Swine Flu, LOL on June 3rd, 2009 at 2:06 pm

  4. The media has tremendous power, but I don’t think they set out to do these things.  They just go witht he flow.  Whatever we want is what we get.  If there was a sudden interest the dangers of getting too close to the Hilton chick, that is where all the news would focus on.  The contatigious chick.

    4. kathy@westminster wrongful death attorney on June 22nd, 2009 at 2:29 pm

  5. Just to clarify, I am not suggesting she is contagious, or carrying any sort of disease, I am just saying that if she did then the media would make a very big deal out if, even though the vast majority of the country has never seen her in person and any risk would be unlikley.

    5. kathy@Newport Beach Wrongful Death Attorney on June 22nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm

  6. I respectfully suggest to kathy@westminster that media doesn’t just go with the flow. Mainstream media is controlled by higher powers which dictate that mainstream CREATE the flow.

    6. Don on June 22nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm

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