Interview with an influenza Guru

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,637119,00.html

SPIEGEL: For a number of years, as part of the Cochrane Collaboration, you have been systematically evaluating all the studies on immunization against seasonal influenza. How good does it work?

Jefferson: Not particularly good. An influenza vaccine is not working for the majority of influenza-like illnesses because it is only designed to combat influenza viruses. For that reason, the vaccine changes nothing when it comes to the heightened mortality rate during the winter months. And, even in the best of cases, the vaccine only works against influenza viruses to a limited degree. Among other things, there is always the danger that the flu virus in circulation will have changed by the time that the vaccine product is finished with the result that, in the worst case, the vaccine will be totally ineffectual. In the best of cases, the few decent studies that exist show that the vaccine mainly works with healthy young adults. With children and the elderly, it only helps a little, if at all.

SPIEGEL: But aren't those the exact groups that influenza immunization is recommended for?

Jefferson: Indeed. That's one of the contradictions between scientific findings and practice, between evidence and policy.

SPIEGEL: So, what's behind this contradiction?

Jefferson: Of course, that has something to do with the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. But it also has to do with the fact that the importance of influenza is completely overestimated. It has to do with research funds, power, influence and scientific reputations!

Homeland Security involved in swine flu "control"

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/11/03/achoo-homeland-security-officials-take-on-the-flu.aspx

The ironic thing to me is that all these products being sold to treat and prevent the swine flu are probably of similar efficacy to Tamiflu and the '09 H1N1 vaccine; ie they don't go much. Additionally, odds are that these "fakes" are less prone to cause side effects or toxicity than Tamiflu and the vaccine. I bet those silver shampoos never cause teens to commit suicide unlike Tamiflu, and I bet the "photon genie" doesn't give you a dose of mercury unlike the vaccine drawn from multi-dose vials.

Movie Night

http://www.hulu.com/watch/67878/the-future-of-food

"The Future Of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade"

Free to watch online but you have to suffer through about 8 commercials
The stuff about Monsanto can be confirmed through other sources and other documentaries. The Bovine Growth Hormone shenanigans aren't touched on in this movie but there are similar themes with that history.

Swine flu for profit

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/25/swine-flu-vaccines-profit

Health Care Reform, victory for the Pharma industry

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/merrill-goozner/big-pharma-has-lured-dems_b_257030.html

Time Magazine Article on Cancer Screening

http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2009/10/23/rethinking-the-benefits-of-breast-and-prostate-cancer-screening/?xid=rss-topstories'

It's weird to me how no one wants to say "well since these tests are more likely to harm healthy people than save healthy people from cancer, let's not do these tests."

I mean if this was a pill to prevent cancer and yeah it prevents cancer in 1 person out of 2000 who take it for 10 years but the pill causes cancer to be diagnosed unnecessarily in 10 people out of 2000 who take it for 10 years and it causes almost all of them to have at least one false alarm for having cancer over those 10 years..... That pill would be laughed off the market.

I think it's just too horrible to admit such a large mistake.

We made a mistake. The 1st step is to admit it and stop making it worse by continuing to do the same harmful things just because it's what we've always done.

National State of Emergency Declared

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091024/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_swine_flu

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius now has authority to bypass federal rules when opening alternative care sites, such as offsite hospital centers at schools or community centers if hospitals seek permission.

That might be a politically correct way of saying "quarantine camps".  I don't know.  I've read that the US like most countries have signed an agreement with the World Health Organization that gives certain powers to the WHO on a local and state level to implement pandemic plans.  

But digging through the national disaster preparedness plan is like reading the small print on the back of a prescription pamphlet

Section 361 authorizes the Secretary to make and enforce regulations necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States, or from one state or possession into any other State or possession. CDC administers these regulations as they relate to quarantine of humans. Diseases for which individuals may be quarantined are specified by Executive Order; the most recent change to the list of quarantinable diseases was the April 1, 2005 Executive Order 13375, which amended the Executive Order 13295 by adding “influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic” to the list. Other provisions in Title III of the PHS Act permit HHS to establish quarantine stations, provide care and treatment for persons under quarantine, and provide for quarantine enforcement. Section 311 of the PHS Act provides for Federal-state cooperative activities to enforce quarantine and plan and carry out public health activities. Section 311 also authorizes the Secretary to make available the resources of the PHS to help control epidemics and deal with other public health emergencies. HHS may also engage in certain international activities under section 307 of the PHS Act. Statute 42 U.S.C. § 97, which provides that the Secretary of Health and Human Services may request that Customs, Coast Guard, and military officers aid in the execution of quarantines imposed by states. 

http://www.hhs.gov/pandemicflu/plan/appendixe.html

I don't know folks,  maybe this is nothing but there's some spooky stuff that's now legal to contain this "pandemic".  So far we've had adjuvant free swine flu shots but with this madness plus the shortage of vaccinations,  there might come a day very soon where untested adjuvants are added to the swine flu shot and maybe the average person will be compelled to take the vaccination if they want to travel or work or shop?   

Of course I wouldn't put it past our elected officials to just play games to maintain a sense of legitimacy and appearance of being "proactive" in the face of a "pandemic".