In a stunning New York Times headline today comes the antidote of reality….
oh noooooo… say it ain’t so?! What, no mass death headed our way? What will Kathleen Sebelius do now after her “expect many more deaths” prediction… “twitter” her thumbs?
Why just last week, here’s a breathless Anderson Cooper on CNN
Over “1000” people in Mexico back on April 24th, and “68” people have died…..
A day later, the New York Times chimes in:
Mexican officials, scrambling to control a swine flu outbreak that has killed as many as 61 people and infected possibly hundreds more in recent weeks, closed museums and shuttered schools for millions of students in and around the capital on Friday, and urged people with flu symptoms to stay home from work.
~~~Mexico’s flu season is usually over by now, but health officials have noticed a significant spike in flu cases since mid-March. The W.H.O. said there had been 800 cases in Mexico in recent weeks, 60 of them fatal, of a flulike illness that appeared to be more serious than the regular seasonal flu. Mr. Córdova said Friday that there were 1,004 possible cases.
The WHO… that would be the same group, hyping the fear by notching up the Phase levels first to Phase 4, and then up to Phase 5 on Friday, warning of a world wide pandemic.
Now how foolish do all these people look with the real truth starts slithering out? Take Mexico, the “epicenter” with the thousands infected and over 160 deaths by the time the media was finished embellishing.
Of 908 suspected cases that were tested, only 397 people turned out to have the virus, officially known as influenza A(H1N1), Mexican health officials reported at a news conference. Of those, 16 people have died.
Mexico had reported about 2,500 suspected cases as of Friday, but the number of real cases could turn out to be less than half the suspected number if further testing follows the same pattern as the original round. Officials said that the tests were being done quickly, and that 500 more would be completed Friday.
~~~The W.H.O. said that 15 countries had reported a total of 615 cases of infection with the A(H1N1) influenza virus, up from 367 cases late Friday. But Mexico has also found that a little more than half of its suspected cases subjected to detailed tests so far did not actually involve the virus. José Ángel Córdova, Mexico’s health minister, said, “This is a new epidemic, and we can’t predict exactly” what it will do. “We need more days to see how it behaves,” he said.
“Apparently the rate of infection is not as widespread as we might have thought,” he added. The materials needed for the test were provided to Mexico by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Officials at the centers declined to say what the new numbers might mean.
What it means is that it was all hysterical hype…. and so embarrassing to see how sheeple the world’s population has become.
Vietnam era Navy wife, indy/conservative, and an official California escapee now residing as a red speck in the sea of Oregon blue.
Whoops! Another phony crisis about to be exposed?
Never mind. The Obama Administration will still use the scare to build political support for their inferior socialized health care scheme.
Never let a good crisis, even a phony one, go to waste.
1,000 people died and over 35,000 were sickened in the USA, according to the CDC, from West Nile Virus. Nearly 1,500,000 people die each year worldwide from malaria, most of which are black African children under age of 5. In the 35 or so years since DDT was banned, do the math …
DDT was banned because of sleight of hand and fraudulent faked science in the EPA. The EPA overruled the court that had said they could find no evidence of the claims DDT was harmful — In 2006, WHO approved DDT for use, after trying for 35 years to make the fraudulent science true — And failed.
And what do we hear about this real problem, the scourge of humanity, mosquito borne malaria? And why not? Because it’s mostly poor blacks in Africa who die from malaria? Can you say ……. Yes you can.
Like global warming, the DDT hoax before, was well, you know, a hoax, according to WHO — Yes the very same WHO.
You are spot on bill-tb, DDT is a perfect example of how the greenidiots ride rough shod over humanity with no evidence.
check out http://www.junkscience.com for all the malaria info you need..
It truly is pathetic and sickening how many Africans die each year and have died due to the banning of DDT.
Press can’t even get this right what could they have right about bho?
I’d bet nothing.
Like I always say follow the money.
You will find back in March memos went out to WHO workers about pay.
Then take Glaxio and Rouch stock prices
Catherine
Remember the outbreak of bird flu in an enclosed turkey farm in England was their last big infusion of cash; and that was proved to have been brought into the farm by a WHO worker on his shoes just had flown in from Asia to inspect the farm.
so as the lefties help the bho steal your money and freedom stand and fight back.
Hell
How many people die in cars every year but do you not get into your car and drive.
Like I said the Mexican diet lacks Iodine and they shut down their water over the Easter break that means they were using water trucks again how clean was that water do you think?