 San Diego November 30, 2009 Swine flu hysteria confirmed anew By Chris Reed UNION-TRIBUNE Staff Writer
 Most cases believed to be H1N1 are actually the common cold or another flu-like bug (Caption & Pic courtesy of One Click)
From Michael Fumento, one of the best science journos around and one of the few who actually understand and are good with math and statistics:
Flu Watch Nov. 30 - What Swine Flu ISN'T Doing
Swine flu is dying. Flu deaths and hospitalizations have declined for the third straight week according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Reported infections have dropped 83% from their peak four weeks ago, and now only 32 states report widespread flu activity compared to 48 at the epidemic height.
CDC-defined "influenza-like illnesses" on college campuses are about a third what they were just two weeks ago, down from 29 new cases per 10,000 students to just 13.4. In all, 157,000 cases with a mere two deaths. So much for swine flu scything through the young.
And although the CDC's estimate for U.S. swine flu deaths puts them at a third to a twelfth that of seasonal flu at one in 5,500 cases, the estimate in France is just 1 death per 48,000 cases, while that in Japan is 1 per 140,000. "This little piggie" just keeps looking littler and littler.
New Zealand risk and policy advisor Ron Law estimates that for health people, the risk of swine flu death is about 1 per 400,000 as opposed to 1 per 7,500 for U.S. auto accidents - and yet many who have panicked over swine flu assuredly don't bother to buckle up.
That's what hysteria'll do for ya!
Congrats to the public health establishment for hoodwinking the public yet again. Avian flu, SARS, Alar, AIDS, you name it -- every time there's a crisis it's exaggerated for empire-building purposes or because these officials think it's OK to lie to us for our own good. Or a combo of those factors.
Re: AIDS. I'm not downplaying how horrific the spread of AIDS was. But the fact is a 1996 Wall Street Journal investigation showed CDC purposefully exaggerated the risks to heterosexuals.
************* Related Links: * Governments Spend Swine Flu Panic Billions On Common Cold Justine Hunter, The Globe And Mail * Deadly GlaxoSmithKline H1N1 Vaccine Disaster Toll Rises Helen Branswell, Medical Reporter, Canadian Press * World Health Organisation Manufactured Swine Flu Panic Staff Writer, Infowars Ireland * Britons Refuse Deadly Swine Flu Shot - Vaccines Basil Et Al Bribe Doctors To Inject 90m Doses Andrew Jack, Financial Times * UK Drugs Dealer Supremo Squanders £1billion Plus On Swine Flu Jeremy Laurance, The Independent / The One Click Group *************
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