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Swine Flu Scandal
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‘Swine Flu’ - remember? What about the many confident seemingly scientific scenarios of thousands upon thousands of dead victims, and those Armageddon type thoughts with everybody wearing a little mask and fighting each other to get vaccinated?
Well it seems we were all suckered by the Swine Flu hysteria that happened for the most part of last year. Surprise, surprise!
The Gibraltar Government responsibly drew up its own medical and health contingency plans. Although as things were being predicted world-wide, this strategy may have even included plans for the Army to quell the rioting, as law and order broke down?
What about those that even thought that the local morgue had been ordered to prepare for the pandemic? All round, there was a time when we were hearing so many calamitous conclusions to civilisation as we knew it; it was to me at least, so obviously far-fetched!
Wolfgang Wodarg, Head of Health at the Council of Europe, has accused the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of hyping up the virus and influencing the World Health Organisation's decision to declare a pandemic. Calling for an EU inquiry, he described the H1N1 outbreak as “one of the greatest medical scandals of the century. We have had a mild flu — and a false pandemic,” Mr. Wodarg declared.
Personally I hate when these pandemic scares are announced. Not just because of the illnesses surrounding these so called health epidemics, but also because of the fear that ensues. It doesn’t help when world bodies like the World Health Organisation label them a “public health emergency”. Simply the word “emergency” seems to make people feel that they are in imminent danger of death?
Gibraltar in fact hardly noticed anything, something we should be grateful for, although in the United Kingdom Swine flu took about 250 lives. Yes, each death is sad but this is not what we were lead to believe would happen. We all thought Millions (billions?) of people would fall prey, skeptics say this was due to over-hyping of the situation!
A lot of money was spent, and although hoarding vaccine was all part of the preparedness plans, it was money that could — should — have been spent saving lives in other areas. This is not a criticism on the efforts to safeguard the public in Gibraltar, but this is my general view, and of any lessons that are there to be learnt? Even as this virus winds down across the planet to just a stuffy nose at best, the Government is still sitting on many thousands of pounds of vaccines it cannot get rid off.
The swine flu madness should be an object lesson in the true cost of paying heed to the hysteria merchants for whom the End of the World is always near, like the Environmental Disaster drum beat that constantly reminds us that the end is inevitable if we don’t act now!
The fact of the matter is swine flu has been hopping from pigs to humans for decades, sometimes causing disease, sometimes not, the latest scare last year was a Mexican pig to human, a contamination that was a bit more serious or wide-spread, although it appears it was blown out of all proportions.
The winners were as usual all the drug and vaccine companies, who must constantly be praying for these world deceases to engulf the globe, and allowing them to hatch a plan themselves to cause world wide hysteria, as they did with the swine flu scare.
So I’m not going to say that the swine flu wasn’t a big deal. Anytime someone dies an untimely death, it’s a big deal. Anytime a lot of people die from the same thing, it’s an even bigger deal. It’s unfortunate. It’s tragic. But it’s happened before, and it will happen again!
22-02-10
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