Oops. Got us again. I fell for it too. Now our government has wasted untold millions on flu vaccines that will never be used. The bad part is the next time they sound the alarm it will be ignored. What if its for real then...not good. Bottom line is we cannot trust any of these so called scientific experts any more especially when government and business is involved...
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We blundered over swine flu, admit health chiefs
Last updated at 1:05 AM on 13th April 2010
Uncertainty: Keiji Fukuda speaks at the health experts' meeting at the WHO HQ
Global health chiefs have finally admitted that they may have overreacted to the swine flu 'pandemic' - landing governments with millions of unused vaccines.
The World Health Organisation has conceded that it may have been guilty of failing to communicate 'uncertainties' about how virulent the new virus was.
Critics say the UN agency was too quick to designate the influenza a pandemic in June after it spread from Mexico.
Keiji Fukuda, its top influenza expert, yesterday admitted a six-phase system for declaring this was confusing and the bug was not actually as deadly as bird flu.
'The reality is there is a huge amount of uncertainty (in a pandemic),' he said.
'I think we did not convey the uncertainty. That was interpreted by many as a non-transparent process.'
He admitted the scale may be flawed as it takes into account the geographic spread of a virus but not its severity.
'Confusion about phases and level of severity remains a very vexing issue,' added Mr Fukuda.
He was addressing a meeting of experts reviewing the WHO's handling of the first influenza pandemic in 40 years.
Last week it emerged Britain wasted up to £300million on vaccines that will never be used.
H1N1 has killed 17,770 people in 213 countries, the WHO says.
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We blundered over swine flu, admit health chiefs
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We blundered over swine flu, admit health chiefs
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Re: We blundered over swine flu, admit health chiefs
From my Blog dated May 5, 2009:
It is the job of mass media to capture eye-balls. Newspapers must sell paper, TV news must keep people tuned in to buy sponsor's products and web based news need visitors to click on pop-up ads. When one crisis flames out, then teh media has to find something new to excite the masses & generate revenue.
With the finacial meltdown now becoming old news, with the reports on executive pay becoming too disgusting to look at and teh certified death of Pontiac, the media needed a shot in the arm to keep eyeballs. And man did they get one from the World Health Organization.
The WHO sank their teeth into H1N1 Swine Flue Virus and held on like a puppy does to its toy. Spreading as much FUD as they could they kept themselves in the lime light and shoveled bucketloads of coal into the furnace that runs the mass media.
PANDEMIC!!!!!
Screamed the headlines. Thousands to die! World wide death toll expected to climb!
As of today, the worldwide case load just topped 1,000 confirmed cases with 27 confirmed fatalities. Again - that's worldwide. Compare that to 37,000 deaths from seasonal flu in the U.S. alone. This is hardly the image that the word "pandemic" conjures up recalling the mass graves of the Black Plague or the stacks of corpses from the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreaks.
Yet - the media still tries to capture as many eyeballs as they can by spreading as much FUD as they possibly can as fast as they can. Last night, on NBC news, some brave soul finally commented that this outbreak was far, far less leathal than the "normal" flu or even the common cold. The story was buried faster than a croaked goldfish.
Yesterday saw public interest start to falter. H1N1 was not at the top of all the papers and it didn't even headline the 7:00 News. Of course, the WHO and the media are not ready to give up the spot light, not yet. Now they warn us of the second coming - which could kill thousands.
Lemme run out right now & buy a gross of face masks.
It is the job of mass media to capture eye-balls. Newspapers must sell paper, TV news must keep people tuned in to buy sponsor's products and web based news need visitors to click on pop-up ads. When one crisis flames out, then teh media has to find something new to excite the masses & generate revenue.
With the finacial meltdown now becoming old news, with the reports on executive pay becoming too disgusting to look at and teh certified death of Pontiac, the media needed a shot in the arm to keep eyeballs. And man did they get one from the World Health Organization.
The WHO sank their teeth into H1N1 Swine Flue Virus and held on like a puppy does to its toy. Spreading as much FUD as they could they kept themselves in the lime light and shoveled bucketloads of coal into the furnace that runs the mass media.
PANDEMIC!!!!!
Screamed the headlines. Thousands to die! World wide death toll expected to climb!
As of today, the worldwide case load just topped 1,000 confirmed cases with 27 confirmed fatalities. Again - that's worldwide. Compare that to 37,000 deaths from seasonal flu in the U.S. alone. This is hardly the image that the word "pandemic" conjures up recalling the mass graves of the Black Plague or the stacks of corpses from the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreaks.
Yet - the media still tries to capture as many eyeballs as they can by spreading as much FUD as they possibly can as fast as they can. Last night, on NBC news, some brave soul finally commented that this outbreak was far, far less leathal than the "normal" flu or even the common cold. The story was buried faster than a croaked goldfish.
Yesterday saw public interest start to falter. H1N1 was not at the top of all the papers and it didn't even headline the 7:00 News. Of course, the WHO and the media are not ready to give up the spot light, not yet. Now they warn us of the second coming - which could kill thousands.
Lemme run out right now & buy a gross of face masks.
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