Media and government swine-flu jargon is suspicious and designed to alarm the people of the world!

 

I have noticed that spokespersons for government, the media and the WHO (World Health Organisation) have using a curious and alarming type of jargon when referring to the Mexican "swine- flu" outbreak!

Jargon such as: "this is a pandemic!" - when no one can predict when a pandemic will breakout, given that the last one was in 1918! I just get the impression that the "status quo" have been talking up the threat of a flu pandemic for several years! Why should anyone, including those involved in microbiological research and virology, believe that a pandemic is more likely to breakout at this time in particular? Whats so peculiar and special about 2009?

Jargon such as, as I have just heard on TalkSport radio (Sky): "this might not be "the" epidemic but that doesn't mean that more virulent pandemics might not breakout 6 months or a year from now!"

 

US flu cases rise, officials warn will worsen

But we do think we can reduce the impact of its spread, and reduce its impact on health," Rear. Adm. Anne Schuchat, the CDC interim science and public health deputy director, told a Senate Appropriations health subcommittee.

"There's a lot of anxiety right now across the country," said subcommittee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.

"It's important for people to know there's a lot that we can do," Schuchat told Harkin. "The investments that have been made in preparedness are making a difference."

Still, she warned, not only might the disease get worse, "it might get much worse."

 

Consider: -

1) There were many outbreaks of flu in the decades after WW2 - why did the WHO not claim that they were potential pandemics?

No one knows that a flu outbreak will be a pandemic until after it happens!

2) So why is it more inevitable that a virus will mutate into a new deadly strain in 2009?

3) Why is it more dangerous in 2009, than - say in 1991/2, when I was made ill be a nasty flu outbreak?

4) Why is the WHO, Uk and US politicians broadcasting that the Mexican outbreak is a pandemic - this is obviously spreading panic across the world and causing immense distress to the naive and sensitive?

The term "pandemic flu outbreak" was never used in previous decades!

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So called government "experts" have in the past spread fear and by making the public "aware" of threats such as "global warming" ( has anyone noticed the sea levels getting higher on the coast where you live?), the hole in the ozone layer (have you heard anything about the ozone layer in the last 2 years" No! and Why not?), the dangers of asteroids or meteors (about a year ago, this was the big "threat" at that time and it was disgussed to the limit on the "James Whale Show" - j. and Whale fell for it hook, line and sinker! This was just before he was sacked by Sky). Then there was the iodide pack, that the Irish government sent every member of the population several years ago - incase there was a terrorist attack involving a nuclear weapon - even though neither Iraq, Iran nor the Taliban possessed or had the technology to build one.