Originally posted by spellbound
This new flu has damaged pork farmers around the world.
Wanna provide some evidence of that?
The Eyptian gov't culling all the pigs is one example.
Do you have any others showing it has damanged pork farmers 'around the world'?
It has freaked people out, and it is time to say NO.
Actually, most people are apathetic to this pending pandemic. They don't understand how deadly this could easily become and how overdue we are for a
culling pandemic.
Flu always takes out a lot of people. This one is no different.
A pandemic of swine flu would take more than 'a lot of people' out.
Instead of 36,000 deaths in the USA from regular flu, you'd be seeing
numbers in the MILLIONS if the Swine Flu pandemic takes off.
So yes indeed, this could easily be 'different'.
Here in NZ, where there was a bit of panic - no-one has died.
Yet. Wait until fall to get so smug. In 1918 the Flu came out mild, died back for a few summer months, and then roared to life in the fall killing
40,000,000 people.
even tho you can't get it from pork.
The World Health Organization issued a statement two days ago not to eat infected pork. How the hell the consumer is supposed to know if the pig was
infected when it was slaughtered ... they don't tell us.
It has damaged the world,
How? Most of the planet is apathetic and the idiots didn't isolate Mexico when it first came out like they should have.
JUST SAY NO!
Just say no to what exactly? talking about it? Educating yourself about it?
Learning the truth about it? Finding out the information that the MSM isn't telling you? WHAT exactly are you screaming here? Wanna expand?
Just so you know .. the 1918 Panedmic Flu, the Fort Dix Swine Flu of 1976, and this flu all have similar markers. So before you 'just say no' to
educating yourself on the flu ... read up.
Quotes from "The Coming Plague"
By Laurie Garrett (written in 1994)
Chapter Six ... Swine Flu
A hallmark of the great 1918-10 influenza pandemic was the virus's ability to kill young adults and children. ....
The influenza virus was otherwise well protected by a tough protein-and-fat armor made of two layer sof viral enveloping: one layer was almost
entirely composed of the human heart's nemesis, cholesterol. ....
The virus (1918 Flu) appears to have swept the world in three waves, over less than two years time, gaining virelence with each new assault.....
The appearance of the Fort Dix virus, dubbed A/Newjersey/H1N1 caused consideralbe anxiety inside the U.S. Public Health Service. "By every
available scientific measure, the Shope strain was indistinushable from the 1918 strain, and also indisinguishable from the Fort Dix strain."
...
... influenza viruses unusually rich in neuraminidase proteins were more easily spread from person to person. ...
Several scientists argued that swine strains, in particular, appeared in 90-100 year cycles ...
... there had been a long spring-to-summer silence (of the flu) following the first flu outbreaks of 1918 - a silence that was followed in September
by the greatest pandemic of the early twentieth century. "To decide not to do something, to decide to go on pause because the virus went on pause,
" Osborn argued in long conference alls to fellow scientists, "would be utterly irresponsible." ....
Swine influenzas, Cox would later explain, were particularly worrisome because peigs were highly permissive hosts, capable of harboring influenzas
froma wide range of animals, birds, and humans. Inside the swine, variuos influenza strains shared genes, and recombined, resulting in major antigen
shifts. ...
Stated as certainties, rather than hypothetical conjectures, were the following points listed under the memo's heading "FACTS" : The virus
found at Fort Dix is 'antigenically related to the influenza virus which has been implicated as the cause of the 1918-19 pandemic which killed
450,000 American people; every American undre the age of fifty 'is probably susceptible to this new strain"; severe flu epidemics occur at
approximately ten year intervals." ....
... (1918) influenza deaths were usually produced not by the virus but secondarily by bacterial infections that took advantage of the weakened immune
defenses of influenza-infected lunchs. Bacterial penumonia ...
... a minimum of 85 percent of high-risk populations would have to be vaccinated to ensure society's protection against an analogous epidemic ....