This year’s flu season turned out to be one of the mildest. So what was all the panic about? Boosting sales of dodgy and inefficient vaccines?
Researchers who recently analysed four studies of children aged one to 12 years, have published their findings in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) (August 11, 2009). They found that the anti-viral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, commonly prescribed for flu, put children at higher risk of dangerous complications.
At the same time as elevating kids’ health risks they actually had little impact on the length of the illness or on the spread of the swine flu. In fact, there is evidence to suggest that the drugs may cause the mutation of drug-resistant strains.
The side affects aforementioned commonly include:
The British Department of Health, with its usual devotion to the welfare of the citizenry and their children – as opposed to pharmaceutical profits - dismissed the study. It claimed the results were based on seasonal flu, although it’s hard to understand the point of that rebuttal as Tamiflu is used as a seasonal flu vaccine! In any case, the researchers specifically noted that these results also applied to swine flu.
Once again, we witness government choosing to ignore valid scientific warnings that their recommendations are NOT in the best interest of the majority of people but this revelation does not appear to engender the concern one might expect from a bureaucracy supposedly dedicated to our health.
Call me naïve if you will but I always thought government’s first and overriding concern should be the welfare of its citizens. And here again one is compelled to wonder just who our government thinks it is working for.
It is becoming clear that the hysteria whipped up with governmental collusion (or subservience?) to an agendum designed to boost vaccine sales, has been disingenuous.
The current flu season, swine flu and all, is the MILDEST flu season in years! Don’t take my word for it: this is according to the data provided by the CDC and WHO. In fact far fewer people have died from H1N1 than in ANY past seasonal flu!
So we have a situation in which a relatively mild flu has killed less people than in the past yet government and media have done their level doom-mongering best to stir up a panic and encouraged the mass use of ineffective drugs that pose higher risks of adverse side effects than the illness they are supposed to treat!
Does this sound like the work of honest and well-intentioned people to you?
And when are we going to get a real democracy instead of this elaborate con game?
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