Censored 2011 presentation: FLYING PIGS!!!!!!

Project Censored: The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic


http://davegranlund.com/cartoons/2009/04/27/swine-flu-and-the-media/


Essential Facts:
1. “Many of the claims made by the World Health Organization (WHO seem to be based on weak and imcomplete date. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created and used data to grossly azaggerate the need for an expensive and unnecessary vaccine aimed at creating profits for the pharmaceutical industry.” (Censored 2011, 60)

2. The H1N1 virus was considered a “pandemic” and a serious health risk to the US, with a severity between the Spanish Influenza of 1917 and the Swine Flue outbreak of 1976.

3. The Massachusetts government passes legislation requiring its citizens to get the vaccine with consequences of incompliance ranging from fines to prison.

4. There was NO UNIFORM SYSTEM for collecting data regarding the spread of H1N1, and the number of “confirmed and probable” cases were lumped together as one statistic, resulting in Swine Flu’s label as a “pandemic.”

5. In the span of less than a month and a half, the threat level of H1N1 was raised from Phase 4 to Phase 6, which should have been an indication to the reporting agencies that there was a problem with the data being collected. Instead, the organizations used the figured to increase the hype and hysteria concerning H1N1.

6. “By August 2009, the WHO casually acknowledged that the underlying symptoms were moderate and the ‘most people will recover form swine flu within a week, just as they would from seasonal forms of influenza.’” (Censored 2011, 62)

7. By the end of October 2009, the US government had ordered 195 million doses of the swine flu vaccine, resulting in massive profits for the pharmaceutical companies from Americans “who purchased an unnecessary and potentially dangerous vaccine in large quantities.” (Censored 2011, 63)



http://www.joeymd.com/2009/05/22/first-case-of-swine-flu-in-the-philippines-confirmed/


There were thousands or articles concerning the spread of H1N1, but the vast majority covered only the staggering (and inaccurate) statistics, scaring people into purchasing and taking the vaccine.
Even the news coverage of swine flu seemed to be in favor of scaring people into getting the vaccine.
This story, in that sense, was fairly censored, however, the general public seemed to be aware, at lease towards the end of the “pandemic” that swine flu was not really as bad as the news was making it out to be. This is apparent in the numerous political cartoons concerning H1N1, and the spoofs done by people like Stephen Colbert.