Now there are going to be millions who refuse to believe that there were any intentions other than the public’s best interest behind the World Health Organization’s calling the H1N1 (swine) flu a PANDEMIC. Americans don’t like being deceived, lied to, and put in danger, so we scream, ”Say it isn’t so.”
German epidemiologist and chair of the health committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg has watched closely the evolution of the H1N1 virus since its “introduction” last March. The motion on the EU’s agenda for an urgent degate on “Faked Pandemics–a Threat to Health” was signed by 14 members from ten countries represented on the Health Committee.
Redefining “Pandemic”
The Europeans are angry that governments have spent scarce resources on a contrived pandemic, accusing makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the WHO’s decision to declare a pandemic. There are two kickers here–before the safety and effectiveness of vaccines are even considered.
First, governments have contracts in place with pharmaceutical companies to produce vaccines should any government agency claim”pandemic”. In the U.S. these contracts also shield the drug companies from liability should the vaccines cause harm (the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program). And due to the urgent nature, they’re rarely tested adequately and often do have dire consequences.
Second–the clincher–is that the WHO changed its definition of pandemic in May 2009 when the body count from the new flu wasn’t happening. A pandemic has always been commonly understood to mean heavy loss of life. Since that wasn’t happening, the WHO dropped six words from the definition: enormous numbers of deaths and illness. Now all that it took for a pandemic was a virus spreading across borders to which people had no immunity. (Question–wouldn’t a measure of immunity be the number of deaths and infections?)
CDC halts tracking H1N1 cases
Two months later, in July 2009, our own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention knew that there was no pandemic and advised the state health officials to stop testing patients for H1N1 and to stop counting cases of the influenza. When CBS News asked the CDC to explain this, there was no response. CBS checked with state health officials directly and learned that the cases of H1N1 were one or two percent of the flu cases tested. Regardless, the vaccines had been ordered, so roll up those sleves for the fall flu season!
But with WHO yelling, “Pandemic!” the floodgates were opened for the drug companies to open those sealed contracts and start cranking out vaccines (even bringing out stored Tamiflu and Relenza–and extending their expiration dates!) and raking in the mega bucks and euros. Who was behind this decision at WHO is what the Europeans will be asking.
The motion brought to the full Parliament reads:
“In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies have influenced scientists and offical agencies responsible for public health standards, to alarm governments worldwide. They have made (governments) squander tight health care resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly exposed millions of healthy people to the risk of unknown side-effects of insufficiently tested vaccines.
“The ‘birds-flu’ campaign (2005/06) combined with the ’swine-flu’ campaign seem to have caused a great deal of damage not only to some vaccinated patients and to public health budgets, but also to the credibility and accountability of important international health agencies.”
Needless to say, the WHO response is, basically, ”irresponsible hogwash”. But the committee hasn’t even raised the question of the origin of the hybrid virus that has elements of strains of varied viruses that have never formed in nature. So, if it’s not found in nature, it was most likely generated in a laboratory. Being a very unstable virus that could unravel and mutate in any host body, the effects of this hybrid virus on the populace’s health is unknown.
We’ll watch what happens in Europe. In the U.S. only the Iowa state senator Chuck Grassley is asking federal authorities questions about the H1N1 vaccine. Americans really don’t cope with lies and deceit from our government–point of fact, half of Americans believe (erroneously) that we DID find WMD in Iraq, the reason we were led into war.
Salud!
Beverly A. Jensen, Ph.D.
President, www.WomensMedicineBowl.com
