We remember the outbreak of the H1N1 Influenza Virus (otherwise known as Swine Flu) of 2009-2010, but was it really as dangerous as the mainstream media and organizations like the WHO (World Health Organization) told us? According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 70,000,000 doses of Swine Flu Vaccine were wasted in the United States. With the current United States population around 300,000,000, that's 70,000,000 people we know for a fact did not take the vaccine. That's not counting the people who probably don't get any flu shots, Swine Flu or otherwise. I myself being one of those people.
Now, I'm not some conspiracy theorist who thinks that mercury in the flu shots give you AUTISM, but I do believe in letting the immune system do it's job. I've caught the flu every year for the last 10 years, but that's not a bad thing. I don't even go to the doctor for it. I take Tylenol or Ibuprofen for the fever, and sleep it off. I'm better within 3-4 days. So I know from personal experience that the flu isn't always dangerous, but that's seasonal flu.
My stepsister who was 14 during the "pandemic" contracted the H1N1 virus. Actually, a lot of people did. They ended up shutting down a bunch of schools in my state of Mississippi as a result of the outbreak. My stepsister went to the hospital, was given some medicine (of which I can't remember the name), and took it like she was supposed to. But instead of getting better, she got worse. Come to find out, the medicine that was prescribed for her symptoms has a laundry list of side-effects, and she was experiencing the side-effects, which among other things, included anxiety and hyper-tension. Needless to say, when I found and read the paper to her mother that was given with the drug prescribed, her mother was mad as hell and was ranting about how she was going to go to the Wal-Mart pharmacy she'd gotten the medicine from and demand a refund.
Well, that never happened, but she did however personally take her daughter off of the medication. My step-sister never went back to the doctor, and she didn't take anymore medicine other than Ibuprofen for the fever. She finally got better within a week of being taken off of that medication. In hindsight, the medication they gave her was hurting her more than the Influenza was, and the schools that shut down were back up and running within two days of shutting down.
I seem to remember a time back when President Bush was declaring a national emergency over the H5N1 Influenza Virus (otherwise known as Avian Flu or Bird Flu). They dolled out massive amounts of vaccine to contain the impending epidemic, but hardly anyone contracted the H5N1 Influenza Virus, and no epidemic occurred.
Now, some of you may be wondering why people like the WHO and the CDC (Center for Disease Control) are paranoid when new strains of Influenza appear. Well, to answer that question, we have to look at a little history. In the early 1900s, a massive outbreak of Spanish Flu occurred, and took with it 50,000,000 people before it could be contained. The "Asian Flu" in the mid 1900s killed 2,000,000 worldwide. 10 years later, the "Hong Kong Flu" killed 1,000,000 worldwide. We can that as time progresses and advances in medical technology are achieved, less deaths occur. Back then during the outbreak of the Spanish Flu, doctors could barely treat the common cold, much less Influenza. Today, you can still die from Influenza, but you have to already be standing on your last legs. Pneumonia is fatal without treatment, but your chances with treatment are very good.
40,000 die from Seasonal Influenza every single year. That's about the same number of people who die on our public roads and highways every year. Yet, roughly 14,000 died from H1N1 worldwide. The 40,000 who die every year from Seasonal Influenza comes from the United States alone. Worldwide it kills 250,000-500,000 every year. Click here for more information.
Declaring H1N1 a pandemic was the equivalent to screaming FIRE in a crowded theatre. We've become very adept in dealing with Influenza Viruses, and apparently, people who head organizations like the WHO and the CDC haven't figured that out.
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