Swine Flu Hysteria Spreads Faster Than Actual Virus

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, May 1, 2009

Despite the fact that swine flu has claimed just one victim all week, a kill rate multiple times lower than the common flu, governments of the world are acting as if armageddon is right around the corner.

The World Health Organization calls a virus that has killed a confirmed 12 people in over a week a “threat to humanity” while talk of martial law, mandatory vaccinations and forced quarantines runs rampant.

Much of the hysteria is being fueled by people inundating hospitals and doctor’s offices who have mundane illnesses like the common cold, but who just want to “make sure” they don’t have swine flu. Such cases are immediately treated as “suspected swine flu cases” by the media and the panic spreads faster than the actual virus, which according to Mexican health officials is now clearly slowing down.

However, while media headlines and government advisors scream about a potential pandemic and hundreds of thousands of fatalities, an anonymous GP writing for the London Guardian today explains that calls from people worried they have swine flu have tailed off, while people with flu symptoms are almost non-existent.

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My take on the week:

It appears that on one side of the coin we have reports that say this swine flu is worse than has been reported (Swine Flu Cases Far Worse...), then on the other side of the coin it's not as bad as we think and the media is hyping it (the above article). So what is the real truth? Somewhere in the middle maybe? To be honest, I really don't know.

IMHO, what ever the truth is it's going to affect the US economy and that of Mexico where tourism, or lack of it, is an economic engine on both sides of the border.

What about schools closing? Where I live a number of schools have closed when there have been only 5 (suspected) cases that have been documented in a city metro area of 181,743 and county area of 1.2 million people. Hysteria? You tell me....

The one thing that has been strangely missing from all the different news pieces I've read since this thing broke out earlier this week:

Has there been an influx of Mexican nationals either legally, ill-legally or both crossing over our border to the US? I mean if the roles were reversed wouldn't you want to go north where there is better medical care? Especially if you saw thousands of your countrymen on TV and in person wearing face masks, and your government shutting things down? I'll leave the answer to you...