I'll say it again...........those bastards!

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'Imaginary Panic': The WHO Admits that the H1N1 Pandemic was a Multibillion Dollar Fraud....


Sunday, 13 March 2011 11:07

'The Swine Flu ‘pandemic’ turned out to be nothing more than a storm in a teacup generated by a flurry of conflicts of interest.

A majority of European Health Committee MEPs have nonetheless recently approved a report by Anne Delvaux (PPE) endorsing the existence of what was really an imaginary panic and calling for ‘more cooperation between member states’ to deal with future pandemics.'

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'Imaginary Panic': The WHO Admits that the H1N1 Pandemic was a Multibillion Dollar Fraud....


Sunday, 13 March 2011 11:07



'The Swine Flu ‘pandemic’ turned out to be nothing more than a storm in a teacup generated by a flurry of conflicts of interest.
A majority of European Health Committee MEPs have nonetheless recently approved a report by Anne Delvaux (PPE) endorsing the existence of what was really an imaginary panic and calling for ‘more cooperation between member states’ to deal with future pandemics.'
Read more: 'Imaginary Panic': The WHO Admits that the H1N1 Pandemic was a Multibillion Dollar Fraud....

How's it goin stretch? Interesting article eh. Those evil rotten bastards will do anything for money and power. Of course the idiots who don't believe in the money conspiracy will continue to belittle those who've got enough doubt left to exercise some critical thinking, like they always do and they'll do it right up until the money strips them of everything.
 

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Wow. You guys really need to do your research - you keep getting fished in with these fake stories!

Here's a link to a review of the real findings:

The Great Beyond: Mixed review for WHO's handling of the flu pandemic

And here is the review itself.. if you want to actually read it and show me where this multibillion dollar fraud was revealed, please do - and get back to me.

http://www.who.int/ihr/preview_report_review_committee_mar2011_en.pdf


For those of you who like to live in the real world - here's the correct assessment:

The WHO "performed well in many ways," the committee's report says. It defends the agency against allegations by critics that industry might have influenced WHO decision-making, including when to officially declare a pandemic. The review "found no evidence of malfeasance". But it also gives a long list of areas where it says that the WHO could improve its future response to international threats to public health.

The report praised the WHO's leadership for its response: in particular, its characterization of the emerging pandemic, its generation within weeks of the seed strains needed to create vaccines, and its rapid policy guidelines on which at-risk groups needed most to be vaccinated.


But the WHO failed to provide a "consistent, measurable and understandable" depiction of the severity of the pandemic, the committee found - something that informs both policy choices and personal decisions.


Though estimating the severity of the initial and subsequent waves of a flu pandemic is fraught with difficulties, the report says the WHO should do it, and suggests a basket of indicators such as "hospitalization rates, mortality data, identification of vulnerable populations and an assessment of the impact on health systems". As for an indicator the WHO did use – counts of confirmed cases – these caused considerable confusion in the media and public, and are only really relevant in getting a handle on the earliest stage of an outbreak in a region. They are of little use once the virus is spreading widely within the community, as they then vastly underestimate the real number of cases.


That said, the committee challenges assertions that the WHO overstated the seriousness of the pandemic. In the early stages of the pandemic – when countries must make vaccine order decisions because it takes six months to produce vaccine – there was great uncertainty about the severity of the disease. Evidence from early outbreaks suggested a severity greater than that which finally emerged, the committee noted.


The WHO also failed to dispel confusion over its definition of a ‘pandemic’. This was, for example, described in one WHO document as causing “enormous numbers of deaths and illness,” whereas the official WHO definition is based only on the extent of global spread. An effort by the WHO to clarify matters by changing online documents to better reflect the official definition backfired, said the report, as it fueled "suspicion of a surreptitious shift in definition."


The WHO's 6-point pandemic phase scale, created in 1999 and designed to help decide what actions states needed to take as the pandemic threat heightened, comes in for criticism too. The report argues that in practice it proved more useful for planning than for responding operationally to the emerging pandemic H1N1 virus. The scale itself could perhaps be simplified, it adds.


Again, however, the committee rejected allegations by critics who "accused the WHO of rushing to announce Phase 6 and suggested the reason was to enrich vaccine manufacturers," (see Nature’s article on this here). If anything the WHO delayed declaring a pandemic until it was clear that sustained community spread was occurring worldwide, the committee says.

Flu experts rebut conflict claims : Nature News
 

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Wow. You guys really need to do your research - you keep getting fished in with these fake stories!

Here's a link to a review of the real findings:

The Great Beyond: Mixed review for WHO's handling of the flu pandemic

And here is the review itself.. if you want to actually read it and show me where this multibillion dollar fraud was revealed, please do - and get back to me.

http://www.who.int/ihr/preview_report_review_committee_mar2011_en.pdf


For those of you who like to live in the real world - here's the correct assessment:

I read through the crap in the link in the OP, and found nothing that was even vaguely supportive of the assertion that the WHO admitted it was a fraud, so I just figured it's another of the bizarre stuff posted by the usual suspects. Life goes on.
 

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Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and the U.S. Government’s failure to rein in a lethal profit machine.

Deadly Medicine | Politics | Vanity Fair
 

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Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year.
A drop in the bucket compared to the deaths due to disease and illness, now prevented by evidence based medicine.

On the pandemic, there's always something to be learned from real world events. Improvements in communication, improvements in detection, improvements in prevention, improvements in treatment.

If you had to make the decisions, would you wait until hospitals around the world are at capacity, and have to start making difficult triage decisions on who to treat?
 

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What does mosque makeovers have to do with the World Health Organization and public health?
 

darkbeaver

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A drop in the bucket compared to the deaths due to disease and illness, now prevented by evidence based medicine.

On the pandemic, there's always something to be learned from real world events. Improvements in communication, improvements in detection, improvements in prevention, improvements in treatment.

If you had to make the decisions, would you wait until hospitals around the world are at capacity, and have to start making difficult triage decisions on who to treat?

Disease and illness are very good business. Where is the market incentive?
 

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The market incentive is innovative new products to treat illness and reduce suffering and mortality. But this is a topic only tangentially related to sharing public health information and having robust systems for detection and monitoring of disease.
 

darkbeaver

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The market incentive is innovative new products to treat illness and reduce suffering and mortality. But this is a topic only tangentially related to sharing public health information and having robust systems for detection and monitoring of disease.

Nonsense rubbish poppycock the incentive is money. What a silly idea, reducing suffering and mortality suppresses demand for cures and treatments ultimately adversely affecting the bottom line. Disease monitoring is a bizzness tool detection the same as prospecting for gold in them thar ills.
 

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Nonsense rubbish poppycock the incentive is money.

Which you make more of when you add new products, or when you increase stewardship of products already licensed.

What a silly idea, reducing suffering and mortality suppresses demand for cures and treatments
Selling barrels of oil reduces demand for oil as well. You can't make money without addressing the demand...what crazy economics are you going to invoke next?