Some clips from Tuesday's coverage of the Swine Flu outbreak, broadcast on Canada's CTV Newsnet. In my opinion, the first decent commentary aired on the Swine Flu 'pandemic'.
Dr. Niel Rau makes the important distinction (apparently lost on the WHO) between the rate of spread of a virus, and it's mortality - the rate at which it causes serious illness and death.
The swine flu outbreak occurred in Southeast Mexico, where health care access and record keeping - let alone the monitoring of trends - barely exist. This outbreak has been going on since AT LEAST last December, and hundreds of thousands of Mexicans - if not millions - have presumably already been infected. That means the 200 or so deaths are NOT out of the 2000 or so infections the Mexican government is aware of, but out of the two million or more people who may have been infected so far. All of those people either went to the doctor and were not recognized as having swine flu, or more likely just waited until the symptoms passed, as almost everyone in Mexico does.
This is probably the key to understanding the mystery of why so many people seem to have died in Mexico but nowhere else. A large number of undetected infections that lead to a small PROPORTION of serious illnesses can still produce a noticeable number of deaths. Because the mortality rate doesn't figure into the WHO's definition of a pandemic, they now prepare to move to a "Level 5 alert", even as evidence continues to accumulate from around the world that almost no one dies from this strain of swine flu.
Assuming a mortality of 0.01% - typical for annual flu outbreaks - America would not likely see it's first fatalities due to swine flu until 10,000 or more cases exist in the U.S. Given the popularity of Mexico as an American tourist destination, that number of cases may already exist. So expect a lot more 'news' about the number of detected infections in the US increasing - given that until this week, almost no one was being tested for swine flu. Also, expect many more false and misreported cases like the two phony deaths in L.A. on Tuesday, or of the Mexican child who happened to die on U.S. soil now being reported as America's first fatality.
Now, it is puzzling why so many of the deaths that have been documented in Mexico are among 15 to 45 year-olds, and this bears monitoring and research. But the idea that anyone is going to stop this virus from spreading, or that anyone will even really care when it does spread, is leading to an ENORMOUS waste of resources, energy, and attention to the real risks before us.
The mainstream media, Rumsfeld and the Tamiflu people, dust mask hawkers, unscrupulous politicians like Michele Bachmann, and short-selling scumbags like this guy are laughing all the way to the bank...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsU1oulWT8Y
People profiting from the needless spread of panic are beneath contempt.
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News story from the Mexico City Daily El Universal...
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/167587.html
Rough translation of the opening paragraph...
"They've Known Since December of Infection in Perote
By Edgar Avila, correspondent
Tuesday 28 April 2009
From December 2008 to March of this year, 500 people in the community La Gloria in the municipality of Perote, presented with respiratory illnesses. Among the cases there were two deaths from "pneumonia," the subdirector of Prevention and Control of Diseases of SSA, Alexjandar Escobar Mesa, said in confirming the outbreak of "respiratory diseases" in the area."
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the flu kills people all the time, this was blown outta content, the government likes to stir things up....the mask do NOT really help, keep washing your hands if your out in public, and the as always the people who are sick should stay home if they are NOT at the doctors. it's common practice people.....
debfunkcolorado 1 year ago
"Hundreds infected around the world... and it's spreading!" "...that now brings, ah, the total of new cases in Canada to seven."
Oh, my! A flew has never spread to seven people before. This is very dramatic. :)
This looks like it should be on the ONN.
log6778 2 years ago
see,that is the problem,the only people I can trust are these,so I can't tell if they're right or wrong...
TrEjeenaa 2 years ago
Do u know that for a fact or did you hear that from somebody?
angrycommentormon 2 years ago
well,it is deadlier, for one thing...
TrEjeenaa 2 years ago
But guys here's a fact. Thousands die of the ordinary flu so why are we making a big deal out of this swine flu?
angrycommentormon 2 years ago
Omg I had Norwalk from March31/09 till April 15/09... it was horrible there was NOTHING they could do for my, i was the ER 3 times...man, scared the shit out of me
DazedButterFly 2 years ago
omg...so sorry... :((((((((((((((((((( see,that's what I'm talking about,they're just rying to calm the situation,they need to tell us the way things really are...
TrEjeenaa 2 years ago
a 23 month old child died in Texas.
Vandius24 2 years ago
mexicans die,and US people don't..media lies have REALLY done it this time
TrEjeenaa 2 years ago