| If you have been viewing the media
you must have seen the scare the media and the
president are seeking to orchestrate on you and
the public. According to a draft of the
government's plan to fight a potentially
cataclysmic pandemic, this new bird super-flu
could kill nearly 2
MILLION Americans. But
I nearly fell out of my seat in the airplane as
I was flying back from a conference in
Ft.
Lauderdale
when I read that in the BEST-case scenario, only
200,000 people might die.
Then they post the frightening
picture from the 1918 flu epidemic to heighten
the fear. It just amazes me how they can get
away with this type of reporting that is so
obviously manipulated by the government and drug
companies to scare you into taking the flu
vaccine.
The popular media continues to
reinforce this unbased fear. In the editorial
section of the October 17, 2005 issue of the
Wall Street Journal, Dr. Henry Miller, former
director of the Office of Biotechnology at the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), seeks to
frighten the
U.S.
public by telling us that the bird flu virus can
jump from birds to humans and produce, and is a
fatal illness in 50 percent of those infected.
Ah, there's the rub.
A 50 percent fatality rate sounds
pretty scary to me. What Dr. Miller and the
other experts fail to explain is how these
numbers were derived. Did they examine everyone
who contracted the bird flu and use those
numbers, or did they examine the sickest of the
sick who had come down with the bird flu and
determine the mortality rate from there?
Of course, it was the latter, and
from the 60 people who have died from this in
THIRD-world countries we are being told that
anywhere from 200,000, AT BEST, to 2 million
people at worst will die from the bird flu.
This is shoddy science at best and
beyond belief that any reputable scientist could
get away with such nonsense.
Daily Show
Parody
Fortunately, contemporary comedians
can see right through this nonsense. Here are
the links to Jon Stewart's scathing and
brilliant Daily Show piece on bird flu. But I
have to warn you that it may cause you to hurt
yourself from laughing so hard, especially the
World Health expert comments on the bird flu
killing 150 million people and even funnier
comment of George Bush on bird-to-people
transmission.
Quicktime Link (106 MB)
MP3
Link (6.7 MB)
What Happened
to Common Sense?
The bird flu epidemic hoax reminds me
just how uncommon "common sense" is. Folks,
where is the sound basic science here? How do
they make the giant leap of faith that 60 deaths
will translate to 2 million or even 200,00
deaths in the
United States
from a virus that does NOT readily spread from
birds to humans, or humans to humans?
Most of the people who acquired this
infection were bird handlers who were in
continuous contact with these sick birds. Does
anyone in their right mind envision similar
circumstances in the
United States?
Research like this would typically be
thrown in the trash if it did not strongly
support some ulterior purpose.
What might the purpose of these scare
tactics be you ask?
Well how about the United
States purchasing huge quantities of antiviral
drugs and an increase in flu vaccine production,
along with purchasing 20 million doses of the
highly questionably effective Tamiflu. Guess how
much one treatment of Tamiflu costs? Give
yourself a slap on the back if you guessed $100.
So those 20 million doses the
government has authorized will cost
U.S. taxpayers
$2 BILLION.
If you haven't yet read the lead
story about Donald Rumsfeld in this issue.
please do as you will where a significant
portion of those funds are being directed to.
Now I think very few of us would mind
if this drug actually worked and prevented even
a few people from dying. But does it do that?
Not really. About all anyone can expect from
this drug is that it might make the symptoms a
bit less severe. On the downside, (aside from
setting you back $100) Dr. Tenpenny explained in
her
Flu TeleClinic last
week that Tamiflu can actually cause the virus
to mutate into a more dangerous and potent viral
strain.
Recently, U.S. Congress asked Roche,
the maker of Tamiflu, to suspend its patent and
have others make it because they could not
likely keep up with the demand, but
of course Roche refused
saying Tamiflu is hard to make and it would take
another company three years to "get up to
speed."
What they were really saying is they
could care less about the public. What their
primary focus was on was to not share their
windfall profits mandated by the
U.S. Congress.
Worthless Flu
Shots
Of course, let us not forget the flu
shots that many will get when they confuse bird
flu with the regular flu. Please understand,
even if you believe the flu shots work, the flu
shot you can now purchase is in no way, shape or
form designed to protect you against the bird
flu. They are completely different
strains. (Bird flu is H5N1 strain).
But rest assured the makers of flu
vaccines will not lose this unusal opportunity
to rape the American public for even more
profits. Recently we learned that those getting
the flu shotsmay see a
25 percent increase in prices at
clinics, doctors' offices and medical centers
because of increases in the wholesale cost of
the vaccines.
History Repeats
Itself
Investigative journalist Ida Honorof
for decades published a consumer newsletter and
broadcast a regular radio program. Honorof
received a first prize award from Associated
Press for investigative journalism. The
Los Angeles Times and
other publications credited her with breaking
some of the biggest horror stories of our time.
Ida Honorof wrote, "The most brazen,
obscene electioneering ploy" ever and added that
it was proposed by the President "and his
coterie of scientific hacks, fabricated to cause
pure unadulterated panic and guarantee political
capital, rammed through without consideration of
people's health and lives and approved by a
band-wagon Congress" eager to make the nation's
"health" a bipartisan concern.
The above quote was not written about the bird
flu epidemic but the 5 million swine-flu vaccine
program of 30 years ago. The hastily contrived
program for swine flu resulted in hundreds of
Guillain Barre Syndrome paralysis victims as
well as countless deaths for a flu pandemic that
never materialized.
The pocketbook purloining proposed by the Senate
is more than 3,000 percent greater than that of
30 years ago! Has your paycheck increased 3,000
percent in the last 30 years?
Practical
Options
First step for anyone caught up in
this bird flu hype nonsense is to take a deep
breath and relax and realize the truth here.
Unless you are a full-time bird handler in a
third-world country who has a seriously
challenged immune system you probably have a
much better chance of wining the lottery than
dying from the proposed bird flu epidemic.
Review the
simple lifestyle measures I outlined
earlier this year that will
serve to boost your immune system to not only
address any form of the flu but also other
infectious illness like the cold. When you have
a healthy lifestyle and follow basic steps of
the
Total Health Program,
for the most part you just don't get sick.
This is the routine surprised comment
that most patients tell me after they have been
on the program. The Total Health Program works
for me, most of my patients and can work for
you. Just give it a try and let's stop enriching
the drug companies for toxic alternatives that
don't solve the problem.
For more
information about the bird flu you can obtain
the
Flu TeleClinic I
did last week with Dr. Tenpenny.
What You Can Do
Meanwhile, the "Biodefense and
Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of
2005" (S. 1873), recently passed out of the
U.S.
Senate HELP Committee one day after it was
introduced. The
National Vaccine Information Center
(NVIC) is calling the bill
"a drug company stockholder's dream and a
consumer's worst nightmare." This bill, spurred
by bird flu fears, will broadly eliminate
corporate liability for vaccines and drugs. This
bill will soon go to the full Senate for a vote.
After reading the information below,
please write to your own Senator and your own
member of Congress in protest of this bill. Pass
this alert to your family, friends, and other
organizations you are involved with, and go to
the
NVIC website to
take action right now.
The proposed legislation, nicknamed "Bioshield
Two," is being pushed rapidly through Congress
without time for voters to make their voices
heard by their elected representatives. It will
strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury
if they are harmed by a drug or vaccine that
they are forced by government to take, whenever
federal health officials declare a public health
emergency.
The bill establishes the Biomedical
Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA),
as the single point of authority within the
government for research and development of drugs
and vaccines in response to bioterrorism and
natural disease outbreaks. BARDA will operate in
secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information
Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths
caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as
"countermeasures" will become public.
This proposed legislation is an
unconstitutional attempt by some in Congress to
give a taxpayer-funded handout to pharmaceutical
companies for drugs and vaccines the government
can force all citizens to use, while absolving
everyone connected from any responsibility for
injuries and deaths which occur.
For more information on this, go to
www.NVIC.org.
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A
draft of the government's plan to combat a
potential super-flu estimates a death toll of up
to almost 2 million Americans. The plan is being
rewritten to designate who will run the country
during a possibly chaotic period that could
follow a mutation of a bird flu in 
