So much of this media campaign going out to scare people, as usual. About 100 Mexicans dead from pig flu? How about the normal flu - the influenza - it kills THOUSANDS of Americans every year. Talk about a pandemic.

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As a result, and despite annual vaccinations, the U.S. faces a burden of influenza that results in approximately 36,000 deaths and more than 200,000 hospitalizations each year. In addition to this human toll, influenza is annually responsible for a total cost of over $10 billion in the U.S.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/...-influenza.html

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So much of this media campaign going out to scare people, as usual. About 100 Mexicans dead from pig flu? How about the normal flu - the influenza - it kills THOUSANDS of Americans every year. Talk about a pandemic.

And there you have it. In fact it has just been reported that the swine flu has in fact not killed 152 people but ONLY 7 PEOPLE after the official testing results have been completed by Mexico.

http://www.repubblica.it/2009/04/se...-accertati.html

Sorry the article is in Italian but I wonder why none of the North American media outlets have not picked up on this yet?

The media's job is scaring people, just like the yellow, orange and red terror alerts. Guess they better hurry up and close the borders declaring a police state before everyone picks up that this "global epidemic" is no worse then the average fuking flu.

Out of the 1600 reported infected people in Mexico at least 1000 have been sent home already.

I am going to time the western media outlets on how long it takes them to tell everyone this newly released legitimate information or if they continue to scare the population into a havoc.

The latter I am sure of.

Ron Paul on the Swine Flu Scare and more BIG Government

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Originally posted by Magnetonium [COLOR=FF7F50] So much of this media campaign going out to scare people, as usual. About 100 Mexicans dead from pig flu? How about the normal flu - the influenza - it kills THOUSANDS of Americans every year. Talk about a pandemic.

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Originally posted by ******** inglesi http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/.../29/2555794.htm I wunder how much this cost to "react" to this armagedon spawned virus.. .for various countries such as the US and mexico... there is always that, but if they didn't...

Same thing that was posted in the Italian link I posted above, yet the western media is still fear mongering everyone into a panic.

Makes you wonder....

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Originally posted by culorut Same thing that was posted in the Italian link I posted above, yet the western media is still fear mongering everyone into a panic. Makes you wonder....

NOOOOO!!!!!!

colorut for the sake of my poor fat cat.. don't do this plz?

Cough ,,,,, sneeeeze cough. I am on my way to Iran wish me luck!........

I just saw the best headline of all time:

"Aporkalypse Now!"

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Originally posted by Magnetonium So much of this media campaign going out to scare people, as usual. About 100 Mexicans dead from pig flu? How about the normal flu - the influenza - it kills THOUSANDS of Americans every year. Talk about a pandemic. http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/...-influenza.html

doctors, scientists, and researchers pay public relations firms to get placements on TV and in newspapers talking about this crap in an attempt to gain publicity. The media hype is created, in part, by PR firms selling placement in the media for their clients. The other part is that TV media is the popular choice, and we have morons filtering the dissemination of information.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov I just saw the best headline of all time: "Aporkalypse Now!"

+1

Well it has been at least 24 hours and the western media still have not shown any signs of slowing down with their scare tactics. They are still reporting 150 or so dead in Mexico when it is really 7?



Swine influenza - update 5 29 April 2009

The situation continues to evolve rapidly. As of 18:00 GMT, 29 April 2009, nine countries have officially reported 148 cases of swine influenza A/H1N1 infection. The United States Government has reported 91 laboratory confirmed human cases, with one death. Mexico has reported 26 confirmed human cases of infection including seven deaths.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_29/en/index.html