Canwest papers warn of mass vaccination

The so-called ’swine flu’, which the World Health Organization calls H1N1 type A seasonal influenza, seems to be back on stage again — this time with a rather awkward performance of The oh-so-scarey swine flu pandemic.

Two weeks ago the BC Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport issued a press release saying that the ‘pandemic’ was only a “bad flu year” and that everyone should take the same normal precautions against seasonal flu that it has always recommended.

Little has changed since then to justify any further concern, but the fearmongering apparently refuses to die. The Windsor Star recently ran a story saying that “under Canada’s official pandemic plan, the entire population would ultimately be immunized against the H1N1 swine flu.” The Saskatoon StarPhoenix, also a Canwest paper, ran a similar story.

Huh? BC and the feds seem to be living in different worlds. Who are we to listen to? According to a related article, there are already a whopping 12 deaths in Canada (others say 20) from this flu. That must make it one of the most insignificant flu years ever. On paper it may technically be termed a ‘pandemic’, but it is certainly not any more of a pandemic than any other round of influenza. There is just not the evidence to support the seemingly disproportionate hysteria.

The related article gives us some sense of the global proprtions of the ‘pandemic’.

Canada has the third highest number of confirmed swine flu cases and deaths, after the United States and Mexico, the countries where the epidemic first emerged in April.

According to the Mercury newspaper –

Swine flu, which emerged in Mexico in April, has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, killing 231 people worldwide and infecting more than 52,000 people in 100 countries.

What does this say for the state of modern governments when two official health agencies are at opposite poles like this? Who should we believe? — those whose words seem to match the real facts, or those whose words seem to be based on some illusion of protecting us, to the point of having to make up excuses for protection?

The Internet grapevine has largely dismissed what it sees as swine flu propaganda intended to create an excuse for mass vaccination.

It is often pointed out that vaccination has been implicated in many health problems.

There was an incident in Europe last year where a maker of flu virus ‘accidentally’ widely distributed vaccine containing live flu virus. That same company is now under contract to produce a ’swine flu’ vaccine. Thus rumors abound about the potential dangers of vaccination for what the public consensus considers ordinary seasonal flu.

The Windsor Star story says –

One of the challenges will be getting people to agree to the shots. There will be limited information about any vaccine’s safety before immunization campaigns are rolled out across the country.

CV News related links:

• Vaccinate Canadians under 40 and natives first: experts
• ‘Swine flu pandemic’ just a bad flu year
• US company wins $45m swine flu race
• Journalist files charges against WHO and UN for bioterrorism and intent to commit mass murder
• The Pandemic That Isn’t