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WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level
Solarch writes "Late in the afternoon on Wednesday, the WHO raised the pandemic threat level for H1N1 "swine flu" to 5. Global media outlets(such as CNN, Fox News, and the BBC) preempted normal broadcast coverage and immediately published stories on their websites. To clarify, the WHO's elevation is mainly a sign to governments that the virus is spreading quickly and that steps should be taken on a governmental level to stage supplies and medicines to combat a possible pandemic. Unfortunately, broadcast coverage focused on phrases like 'pandemic imminent' (CNN marquee).
In other news, patient zero, the medical term for the initial human vector of a disease, has been tentatively identified in Mexico."
For organizations like the CDC and WHO, having well thought out, staged plans makes quite a bit of sense (and simplifies communication).
If they have those stages, they are going to leak to the media and be reported, so they might as well just announce them and try to put out some information about what they mean.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
The swedish chiefs did raise it, bork bork bork.
wax philosophical on how easily an interloper was able to Twitter his way into the White House and destroy America?
I was in class drinking a Pepsi. The teacher said if I bring it to class I better be prepared to share it, and I said, "I CAN'T, THERE'S SWINE FLUE GOING AROUND!1|1!"
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I haven't read one way or the other if all these victims had recently received vaccinations for *anything*. I am suspicious this might be a cause, bad vaccines. No data available, but worth a look if this was possible.
We just had an up and disappeared media story a few weeks back barely covered about baxter shipping some vaccines with avian flu mixed in, *live* virus., I mean, WTF? Why isn't this a major news story, why the ignoring? The customers caught it in time,. or it might have been some real bad news there.. They are stonewalling explaining what happened, claiming "trade secrets" no less, and the odds of it being totally accidental approach zero, according to what I have read about how these labs operate. And they just got the contract to make this new swine flu vaccine! I am suspicious of this, plus the description of this new virus, having attributes of so many other different viruses. I don't know if there is fire, but there's a little smoky sign here.
I don't trust the big media cartels, the **AA members, liars and skunks
I don't trust the big energy cartels, price gougers
I don't trust the big military/armaments complex cartels, always needing those little wars for profits, don't they, can't have peace breaking out
I don't trust the big ghoulish central banks and investment banks, economy parasites
I don't trust the big food and seed and agco chemical monopoly cartels, monopolies on food just seem a bad idea
and I REALLY don't trust the big for profit pharmco cartels, there's a LOT of cash in treatments, trillions, especially with their practices of patent farming to extend patents indefinitely, but not so much in real cures
Anyway, I'd really like to find out if some of these victims who died had some common recent vaccination of any kind
The media can do what they will with this non-story.
I'm safe - I don't believe in that e-vo-lution crap, so this new disease could not have evolved from swine! It's all just pig nonsense.
I'm going back to prepare a round of raw bacon sushi!
But does evolution believe in you?