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Swine Flu - Pandemic or Sales Gimmick?

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I hate the flu.  Like many people I got a flu virus every year for the first twenty years of my life and I suffered the fever, vomiting and respiratory ailments like everyone else.  I refused to take a flu shot because I hate needles.  Later in life I turned to natural health care instead of medical health care and have in the last ten years had the flu twice.  I still do not get the flu vaccine because I believe that it is evil (Or at least semi-evil, I do think it has a place just not on the plate of every American) oh and I hate needles.  I watch the flu season every year with curiosity and a painstaking effort to beef up my immune system and my children’s to avoid being sick.  This is how I know that every year there are over 25,000 - 30,000 deaths reported as being caused by a flu virus in the U.S.  The Swine virus has at this point caused two deaths in America since its outbreak.  So I am forced to wonder if the so called pandemic known as the swine flu is really as terrible as they are saying.

I know I am biased when it comes to the medical world.  I admit that I am bitter and resentful, its true.  But, does it not stand to reason that the drug companies that are oh so cozy with the CDC may have an influence in the general public concept of what is a pandemic and when they should all run to their doctors requesting vaccines and anti viral medications?  The CDC, doctors and the drug companies have this country running blind, fueled by fear.  20 times more anti viral medications have been prescribed in filled in the last week than the typical amount.  Huge shipments for flu vaccines are being hauled in.  This is last years vaccine.  This is a vaccine designed to fight the flu that went around starting last October, not the swine flu.  There is no vaccine for the swine flu.  Yet, doctors are happy to give you a shot of this relatively useless vaccine with just a dash of formaldehyde and mercury for extra health support.

The name Tamiflu, the popular antiviral drug, is on the lips of every person who has read up on the swine flu.  You hear people in the grocery store talking about it.  “At least we have Tamiflu”, or “I heard the president ordered more Tamiflu be stocked.”  I encourage you to do some even some light research on Tamiflu.  First you will discover that its capabilities are incredibly limited.  It claims that it can rid you of up to one day of flu symptom relief.  That’s it.  Tamiflu will cut one day off of your total flu suffering.  It won’t save your life or keep you out of the hospital.  However many people who take Tamiflu do suffer with phycosis or loss of full body mobility.  recent studies on this ‘wonder drug’ state that fifteen people have died from taking Tamiflu because they became so accident prone that they actually injured themselves fatally. 

I do not wish to make light of the deaths or suffering that the swine flu has caused.  However, a moment of reflection leads me to wonder is this so called pandemic a serious concern or did the drug company get overstocked on vaccines and antiviral medications?

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