Is This The Long Awaited Pandemic?

[David Guyatt]

I have today asked the government's Chief Medical Officer to provide the current number of deaths attributable to swine flu - and will post the reply here when received. The last published figure I can find was 29 in Summer 09. Nothing since then, it seems. Anyway, it will be interesting to see just how much hype there was.

Meanwhile, the fortnightly bulletin issued by the CMO about swine flu has been terminated. The epidemic is effectively over.

But the profits continue to roll in.

Yours cynically,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8494892.stm

Tamiflu sales boost Roche profits



Swiss drugs firm Roche has reported an 8% rise in annual sales, helped by sales of swine flu drug Tamiflu and cancer treatments, such as Herceptin.

The rate of growth is twice the industry average and operating profits were up by 14% to 15bn Swiss francs ($14.2bn, £8.89bn).

However, overall net income for the year fell 22% to 8.5bn Swiss francs as a result of takeover costs.

Last year, Roche bought US pharmaceutical giant Genentech.

It says that this deal is already proving profitable.

Although sales of Tamiflu soared last year, they are expected to fall sharply in 2010, to 1.2bn Swiss francs from 3.2bn Swiss francs in 2009.

[Peter Lemkin]

The Czech Republic's chief hygiene officer, Michael Vit, says he has
probably caught the swine flu virus, the news website novinky.cz
reported on Tuesday. Mr Vit said he had several symptoms of flu and was
convinced it was swine flu. He had been vaccinated against regular flu,
but not the H1N1 virus, saying he had planned to get a jab against the
latter this week. On Monday the Czech government said that if there is
an epidemic of swine flu it will be up to the chief hygiene officer to
decide whether to introduce mandatory vaccinations for around 200,000
workers regarded as key to the functioning of the state.

[Peter Lemkin]

I hate to credit the BBC with anything, but they did [last few days] a good piece on the fake 'pandemic' and hinted that there are Big Pharma agents within WHO. Catch it on the BBC websites. :ciao:

[David Guyatt]

I hate to credit the BBC with anything, but they did [last few days] a good piece on the fake 'pandemic' and hinted that there are Big Pharma agents within WHO. Catch it on the BBC websites. :ciao:

Thanks Pete. The BBC report is below and nothing more need be said really, fraud is fraud.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8455035.stm

WHO to review swine flu response
By Imogen Foulkes
BBC News correspondent in Geneva



The World Health Organization (WHO) is to review its handling of the HIN1 swine flu pandemic, once it is over.

The WHO has been facing charges from some European politicians that it exaggerated the dangers of swine flu.

More than 12,700 people worldwide have died from H1N1 - but the virus has turned out to less deadly than feared.

However, the WHO initially urged rapid development of treatments and vaccines, fearing the virus had the potential to kill millions.

As a result wealthy countries spent billions on medicines which many believe are now unnecessary.

Across Europe, governments are trying to resell their stockpiles of swine flu vaccine.

The Council of Europe is planning an investigation, to begin later this month, into whether pharmaceutical companies influenced public health officials to spend money unnecessarily.

In Geneva, a WHO spokeswoman acknowledged there were questions to be answered.

She said the the review of its management of the pandemic would be conducted with independent experts, and the results would be made public.

However, the review will not begin until the pandemic itself is declared over - and that could still be months away.

[David Guyatt]

I have today asked the government's Chief Medical Officer to provide the current number of deaths attributable to swine flu - and will post the reply here when received. The last published figure I can find was 29 in Summer 09. Nothing since then, it seems. Anyway, it will be interesting to see just how much hype there was.

Meanwhile, the fortnightly bulletin issued by the CMO about swine flu has

Just received the reply from the governments Chief Medical Officer. The number of deaths attributed to Swine 'flu in the Uk, as of 4th February 2010 stands at 411.

This is in contradistinction to the average number of deaths attributed during the Winter to ordinary 'flu in an average year are around 12,000, and in a low flu year may be as little as 3-4000 (see: http://www.jabs.org.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=58).

While Winter is not yet over in the UK, the flu "pandemic" is certainly well over and done with and the number of additional deaths will probably and hopefully) be very low.

In al all, this clearly suggests that Swine flu was very good for us all...

And for LaRoche too.

[Keith Millea]

I've been keeping track of the H1N1 virus here in my State of Oregon.This page lists the number of hospitalizations and deaths by county.

http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/acd/swinefl...ml#current



This link has a good chart of the progression of the virus.Note that the big spike in cases was from the back to school timeframe.

Chart of Influenza Hospitalizations and Deaths by Week (pdf)

[Ed Jewett]

I have it on good authority from personal sources working at high levels within the health care system that formal testing in this geographical area and systems milieu stopped happening some months ago... the tests are bothersome, cumbersome, ofttimes inaccurate, so the diagnosis of H1N1 is made under curious, sloppy, or even automatic circumstances. It seems also fairly obvious now from a statistical perspective that whatever the H1N1 thing was, it was not nearly as fatal as the normal seasonal flu variant. The idea that this is a "bug" designed to boost pharmaceutical purchases has long been present, has essentially been proven, and is consistent with the Hegelian approach now widely used to generate cash flow from our pockets to someone else's. Soon, I anticipate an outbreak of ayatollah-litis or antibiotic-resistant Ahmadinejad hemorrhagic fever necessitating the infusion of significant undercover spores armed with micro-Predators that have been saturated in depleted iodine. Line up early for your injection. :reddy:

[David Guyatt]

This is also true for the UK Ed. If you have flu like symptoms you are not permitted to visit your doctor but must phone them.

Diagnosis and treatment is conducted over the phone.

The apparent symptoms can be identical to the plain vanilla annual flu because in order to determine if it is pig flu, a blood test is required.

And the last time I paid attention, this was not possible over the phone.

The whole thing has been a load of old bollocks and undoubtedly is a artful financial fraud.

[Peter Presland]

This is also true for the UK Ed. If you have flu like symptoms you are not permitted to visit your doctor but must phone them.

I had occasion to be sitting in our local health centre waiting room back in October last year. They have one of those old-fashioned long LCD strips that run messages across them at well below reading speed. To while away the wait, it can be quite entertaining to second guess what's coming next.

On this occasion I was watching a crude image of a tank (I kid you not) trundling along in front of a message that gradually read "If you think you may have swine flu, please..." Screen full so a pause before next line.

Naturally enough I filled it in mentally with "bugger off and go home" and a few other choice suggestions.

And, in essence that is indeed what it said - only in the usual bureaucrat-speak.

I had a bit of a laugh with my Doc about when I got to see him - we usually spend more time discussing ephemera than my trivial medical concerns anyway - He told me that indeed they were given strong advice - to be ignored at their peril - to treat the whole question of 'Swine flu' as a grave risk and to give it prominence etc etc. I suggested he substitute 'Pig' for 'Swine' and make the position of the sign pause a little less inviting of ridicule.

But we agreed that to have a good chuckle at it was probably in the nature of a tonic - better capable of staving it off (and less potentially damaging) than the mercury-adjuvant containing vaccine they were offering - and being number-of-doses-administered targeted on.

[Ed Jewett]

And the last time I paid attention, this was not possible over the phone.

Given the CIA's work in killer cigars and wet suits, the NSA relationships with numerous phone and Internet carriers, the use of cell phones as device triggers, and the flurry of work being done by DARPA lately, it is only a matter of time before they have it so that my phone wil ring and it will say "You will self-destruct in three seconds..."
:heeeelllllooooo: