Posted by
Always To The Right on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:24:44 PM
. . . from CBS News, story by Sharyl Attkisson:
"'Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?' CBS News Exclusive: Study Of State
Results Finds H1N1 Not As Prevalent As Feared. If you've been diagnosed
'probable' or 'presumed' 2009 H1N1 or 'swine flu' in recent months, you
may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu. In
fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That's according to
state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News
investigation. The ramifications of this finding are important.
According to the Center for Disease Control, CDC, and Britain's
National Health Service, once you have H1N1 flu, you're immune from
future outbreaks of the same virus. Those who think they've had H1N1
flu -- but haven't -- might mistakenly presume they're immune. As a
result, they might skip taking a vaccine that could help them, and
expose themselves to others with H1N1 flu under the mistaken belief
they won't catch it. Parents might not keep sick children home from
school, mistakenly believing they've already had H1N1 flu. Why the
uncertainty about who has and who hasn't had H1N1 flu?" Because the
governments in charge of tabulating all these kinds of statistics.
Swine flu cases overestimated -- why would that be?
Why would
swine flu cases be overestimated? There are no coincidences in
politics. "But, Rush, but, Rush, this is a disease, what do you mean,
politics?" It's political! The whole thing is political. It's being
used as a tool to persuade people to support Obama's health care reform
initiative. It is a tool whereby government officials get to tell
citizens what they must do. And now we find out that they've
overestimated the number of swine flu cases out there and that's on the
heels of a story, "Oh, my God the vaccine, we don't have enough
vaccine, oh, we're all going to die! Waaaah! What are we going to do?
Qhat are we going to do?" It's incredible to watch this.