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4/28/2009
Burri: You're not scaring me with this flu stuff
Remember the bird flu? Also known as avian influenza. We first caught wind of it in 1997 – a new strain of the flu virus, something that made the genetic jump from making animals sick to making humans sick. It’s still around today.
Which is odd, because I thought it was supposed to wipe out large swaths of the human race. We weren’t prepared: we didn’t know how to counter it. A worldwide pandemic was on the way.
That's sure how it seemed, anyway, to anybody watching the news.
That was hardly the first time a health scare swept through our media and, thus, through the general public like…well, like an aggressive and unknown new strain of the flu. We knew it wouldn’t be the last.
Enter the Swine Flu.
Some headlines from the past few days:
WHO raises its pandemic alert level on swine flu
Mexico’s Calderon Declares Emergency Amid Swine Flu Outbreak
US declares public health emergency for swine flu
U.S. prepares for possible swine flu epidemic as global cases rise
Now: President Obama is telling everybody to be calm. Swine flu is a "cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert," but is not a "cause for alarm," he said over the weekend. When even the “Never Waste A Crisis” administration is asking for calm, well, that should tell you something.
Plus, that “rise” in global cases…yes, it’s a rise. Confirmed deaths in Mexico are up to 18. The U.S. has confirmed 40 cases of the swine flu. "Worldwide (outside Mexico) there were 73 cases, including six in Canada, one in Spain and two in Scotland." Zero deaths.
The Center for Disease Control is advising people to do what they would normally do during a flu outbreak – wash your hands a lot, stay home if you’re sick. And the headlines scream Pandemic!
Heck, maybe it will be a pandemic. Maybe this will be the one that’s for real. Maybe all my preparations for the coming Zombie War have been for naught (except for the hoarding of canned food and ammo – those are good for any emergency).
If so, I’m unprepared. And I’m going to remain unprepared. Because I simply find it hard to believe.
We were all supposed to be dead already! If it wasn’t the bird flu, it was HIV. It was overpopulation, resulting in mass starvation. It was pollution, acid rain, the ozone layer. Trash piling up until there was noplace left to put it. Shark attacks. A new global ice age. Chronic Wasting Disease. Y2K. Nuclear annihilation.
Any or all of those could, I suppose, still be in the works. Could come to pass. You wouldn’t know it, maybe, since they’re not blaring out at us in three-inch headlines every day. They’re not breathlessly leading the nightly news anymore, followed by endless speculation on who will be "hardest hit."
They're not in the news anymore. Swine flu is.
And, naturally, I’ll feel pretty damn stupid – like the Dick Cheney doppleganger in “The Day After Tomorrow” – if I’ve been sitting here rolling my eyes and it really does turn out to be a pandemic. The ER nurses will treat me with ironic disgust – he didn't believe it – when I show up barfing pork-flavored plegm.
And, well, I guess I’ll just run that risk.
Okay, I'll wash my hands a little more. But that's it.
Lance Burri is a contributor to the Badger Blog Alliance and The TrogloPundit.
COMMENTS
Interesting, since a military veteran buddy of mine sent me this link just last night. They say where there's smoke there's fire. Should we be scared?
Duke (Tue Apr 28 07:53:44 2009)
Duke, this is typical of the scare tactics used to promote the drug industries' products. The bird flu scare was whipped up even though it would virtually be impossible for it to make the jump from birds to humans; the glycoproteins on the surface were too different, and the virus wouldn't be abkle to mutate BY ITSELF. (However, in a vaccine lab, anything is possible.)
To quote from "Prison Planet":
"Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic.
The claim holds weight because, according to the very laboratory protocols that are routine for vaccine makers, mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible.
“The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses,” reports the Canadian Press.
Baxter flu vaccines contaminated with H5N1 - otherwise known as the human form of avian flu, one of the most deadly biological weapons on earth with a 60% kill rate - were received by labs in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Slovenia.
Initially, Baxter attempted to stonewall questions by invoking “trade secrets” and refused to reveal how the vaccines were contaminated with H5N1. After increased pressure they then claimed that pure H5N1 batches were sent by accident. This was seemingly an attempt to quickly change the story and hide the fact that the accidental contamination of a vaccine with a deadly biological agent like avian flu is virtually impossible and the only way it could have happened was by wilful gross criminal negligence.
According to a compiled translation from Czech newspaper stories, the media over there is asking tough questions about whether the contamination was part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic.
“Was this just a criminal negligence or it was an attempt to provoke pandemia using vaccination against flu to spread the disease - as happened with the anti-B hepatitis vaccination with vaccines containing the HIV virus in US? - and then cash for the vaccines against H5N1 which Baxter develops? How could on Earth a virus as H5N1 come to the ordinary flu vaccines? Don’t they follow even basic precautions in the american pharma companies?” states the translation.
The fact that Baxter mixed the deadly H5N1 virus with a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses is the smoking gun. The H5N1 virus on its own has killed hundreds of people, but it is less airborne and more restricted in the ease with which it can spread. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which as everyone knows are super-airborne and easily spread, the effect is a potent, super-airborne, super deadly biological weapon.
As the Canadian Press article explains, “While H5N1 doesn’t easily infect people, H3N2 viruses do. If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people.”
There can be little doubt therefore that this was a deliberate attempt to weaponize the H5N1 virus to its most potent extreme and distribute it via conventional flu vaccines to the population who would then infect others to a devastating degree as the disease went airborne.
The Canadian Press article states, “That mixing process, called reassortment, is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created,” but then claims that there is no evidence that this is what Baxter were doing, despite there being no clear explanation as to why Baxter has samples of the live avian flu virus on its premises in the first place.
However, to reiterate, the key aspect of this story is that it is virtually impossible for live avian flu virus to find its way into a vaccine by “accident”.
As health expert Mike Adams points out, “The shocking answer is that this couldn’t have been an accident. Why? Because Baxter International adheres to something called BSL3 (Biosafety Level 3) - a set of laboratory safety protocols that prevent the cross-contamination of materials.”
As explained on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosaf…):
“Laboratory personnel have specific training in handling pathogenic and potentially lethal agents, and are supervised by competent scientists who are experienced in working with these agents. This is considered a neutral or warm zone. All procedures involving the manipulation of infectious materials are conducted within biological safety cabinets or other physical containment devices, or by personnel wearing appropriate personal protective clothing and equipment. The laboratory has special engineering and design features.”
Under the BSL3 code of conduct, it is impossible for live avian flu viruses to contaminate production vaccine materials that are shipped out to vendors around the world.
This leaves only two possibilities that explain these events:
Possibility #1: Baxter isn’t following BSL3 safety guidelines or is so sloppy in following them that it can make monumental mistakes that threaten the safety of the entire human race. And if that’s the case, then why are we injecting our children with vaccines made from Baxter’s materials?
Possibility #2: A rogue employee (or an evil plot from the top management) is present at Baxter, whereby live avian flu viruses were intentionally placed into the vaccine materials in the hope that such materials might be injected into humans and set off a global bird flu pandemic.
Spreading bird flu would create an instantaneous surge of demand for bird flu vaccines. The profits that vaccine companies such as Baxter International could reap out of such a panic are astronomical.
In addition, as we have previously reported, those that have a stake in the Tamiflu vaccine include top globalists and BIlderberg members like George Shultz, Lodewijk J.R. de Vink and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Authorities in both Europe and the U.S. have openly detailed plans for martial law, quarantine and internment should a bird flu pandemic occur.
The other motivation, as we have exhaustively documented on this website for years, is the fact that elites throughout history have openly stated that they want to see a world population reduction of around 80 per cent. Shocking stories like this take the plausibility of that narrative out of the realms of conspiracy theory and into the dangerous reality of conspiracy fact.
“Baxter is acting a whole lot like a biological terrorism organization these days, sending deadly viral samples around the world. If you mail an envelope full of anthrax to your Senator, you get arrested as a terrorist. So why is Baxter — which mailed samples of a far more deadly viral strain to labs around the world — getting away with saying, essentially, “Oops?”, Adams concludes.
This is not the first time that vaccine companies have been caught distributing vaccines contaminated with deadly viruses.
In 2006 it was revealed that Bayer Corporation had discovered that their injection drug, which was used by hemophiliacs, was contaminated with the HIV virus. Internal documents prove that after they positively knew that the drug was contaminated, they took it off the U.S. market only to dump it on the European, Asian and Latin American markets, knowingly exposing thousands, most of them children, to the live HIV virus. Government officials in France went to prison for allowing the drug to be distributed. The documents show that the FDA colluded with Bayer to cover-up the scandal and allowed the deadly drug to be distributed globally. No Bayer executives ever faced arrest or prosecution in the United States."
Sorry this is long, but it's worth reading. I can tell you, I work in ER, and during flu season, we get many people coming in. We have to swab everyone, which procedure makes them gag, cough, and hack right in our faces.
I decide to "be good" about 10 yrs ago and get the flu shot...I got flu. Assuming this was a fluke, the next year, I got the shot again...got flu again! I'd never got it prior to that, not have I ever got it since. Many of my colleagues also refuse to get the shot, and guess what? We don't get sick! The RNs who do get it, get sick, at least 50%.
Finally, if it weren't for CAFOs, there wouldn't BE bird flu, swine flu, etc. These diseases, especially bird flu, resulted form overcrowding, and the spread of bird flu followed the shipping routes.
In every case of most of what's in the news, FOLLOW THE MONEY!
emily matthews (Tue Apr 28 09:33:25 2009)
It, the real pandemic, will be like the Second Coming. No one will know the hour. Flying low over our biological Kole Kole Pass. None of our preparation will prepare us. The only things to prepare are our souls. And you, in typically humorous fashion, have successfully circumlocuted that. Thanks for another enjoyable column.
timbeaux (Tue Apr 28 09:47:04 2009)
This swine flu is hogging all the attention, while Obama and his ilk are sneaking their extreme healthcare system in under the wire. This flu might take flight like the 1918 edition. Or it might just serve the administration as a convenient decoy. Too early to tell.
Soapbox Jill (Tue Apr 28 17:54:41 2009)
What!!?? Avian Swine Immunodeficiency Viruses??
Crap, I'm still scrubbing all that lethal Alar offa my apples!
Steve Burri (Tue Apr 28 22:40:02 2009)
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