By April 28, the new strain was confirmed to have spread to Spain, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Israel, and the virus was suspected in many other nations, with a total of over 3,000 candidate cases, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to change its pandemic alert phase to "Phase 5", which denotes "widespread human infection". Despite the scale of the alert, the WHO stated on April 29 that the majority of people infected with the virus have made a full recovery without need of medical attention or antiviral drugs.
We find it interesting how and why our government and socialist news networks love to instill fear into the masses for virtually every issue relating to life in our country. From violent crime like murder (last year 0.00005316% of the population of this country). How the economy is crashing and we're going to be knocked back to the third world if we don't allow the government to spend HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars before we have a chance to think it through and come to our senses, or allow enough time for our elected officials to ever READ IT!!! Or how we're all going to get kidnapped and killed by drug cartels in Mexico, or how our children and even adults will all die if we don't get our DTAP vaccine, NOT once, not twice, not even FIVE times, but ongoing for the rest of our lives, up to over TEN doses! They love to create panic. And what better sales pitch then to tell you YOU'RE GOING TO DIE! But before we all freak out, board up our houses, let's stop and analyze what's going on here. We are not really "panicked" by nature, but perhaps our government and news on the most benign side ARE, and on the most sinister side are quite evil and manipulative, not making any accusations, just wondering, are they evil or stupid? Now, not to say that any of these issues aren't serious, or potentially serious, but do we really want people running the show that are either Pansie scare'dy cats or are evil manipulators? So, what's all the Hype?
On February 5, 1976, an army recruit at Fort Dix said he felt tired and weak. He died the next day and four of his fellow soldiers were later hospitalized. Two weeks after his death, health officials announced that swine flu was the cause of death and that this strain of flu appeared to be closely related to the strain involved in the 1918 flu pandemic. Alarmed public-health officials decided that action must be taken to head off another major pandemic, and they urged President Gerald Ford that every person in the U.S. be vaccinated for the disease. The vaccination program was plagued by delays and public relations problems, but about 24% of the population had been vaccinated by the time the program was canceled. Only one person, the Fort Dix army recruit, died from the flu, more people died from the vaccine that was issued then the flu. About 500 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, resulting in death from severe pulmonary complications for more than 25 people, were probably caused by an immunopathological reaction to the 1976 vaccine.
We refuse to panic, but we also refuse to dismiss the potential seriousness of this strain of flu out of hand. So we will take the appropriate precautions...just as you should regardless if there is a "pandemic". Wash your hands, eat healthy, get enough sleep, exercise!
