I can be silent no longer. This is a serious case of trying to cause huge fear reactions from the public, the WHO is up to something and now we find out the real reason for WHO scaring the crap out of everyone.
Phase 6 would also trigger increased support for developing countries which lack the drugs, diagnostic tests, and medical staff to respond appropriately to the flu
They just want the aid for developing countries. Without the Level "OMG we're all gonna die" 6 declaration they won't get a dime.
Check out these statistics for the Swine flu ...
The number of confirmed infections continues to rise, with the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting 898 infections in 18 countries as of May 3, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tallying 226 confirmed cases in 30 states.
In the entire world there are only 898 cases.
898 cases.
In a regular flu season just in the U.S. there are approx 20 MILLION cases of Flu
20 MILLION
Why don't they go all "OMG we're all gonna die" every flu season, cause an average flu season is 22,271% worse then the Swine flu right now.
There hasn't been one death outside of Mexico (they are counting the one death in Texas as a Mexican death since they came from Mexico for treatment, but came to late).
And according to the WHO a panademic is when ...
A pandemic occurs when a new flu virus emerges and starts spreading easily from person to person, and then from country to country. (To declare stage 6, the WHO needs to see sustained spread of the H1N1 virus in multiple regions of the world; so far, it's only happened in North America.) A pandemic doesn't mean that the new virus is unusually deadly, only that it spreads easily - as H1N1 seems to do
So how can they declare a stage 6 if they are not seeing sustained spread of the virus in multiple regions?
It all comes back to wanting that money for developing countries.
The school district that I live in has closed all schools for 2 days (maybe longer, we will find out tomorrow) because a middle school girl isn't feeling good and she had a friend that returned from Mexico last week. The girl that returned from Mexico has absolutely no signs of the Swine flu, none, nadda, zip, zero but because the girl that doesn't feel good had contact with the girl that went to Mexico they are closing the entire district for 2 days.
This has just gotten out of hand.
Posted by Quality Weenie at May 4, 2009 08:59 AM | TrackBackYeah, I'm dealing with this first hand. Pretty sure my kids got it, just waiting for the results.
By the time we get those results, he'll be almost recovered. He's not even running a fever anymore.
The CDC and WHO can blow me. If they REALLY wanted to stop this crap, they'd have shut down the border with Mexico and actually stopped illegals from coming across. Nice to know that if a terrorist organization gets ahold of some anthrax or something they can pretty much get infected people across our southern border at will, isn't it?
Posted by: Graumagus at May 4, 2009 09:45 AMnice. the panic is stupid. the schools closing is stupid. we have virus outbreaks every year or so when 20% or more of the students and teachers are out - but they don't close for that. good grief. when something truly deadly comes around no one is going to pay any attention after this stupidity.
Posted by: patti at May 5, 2009 10:57 AM