The Incredibly Dangerous Swine Flu
According to the WHO (World Health Organisation) cases of the so called “swine flu” or H1N1 or “new flu” are decreasing. Since October, when some people were still claiming that there would be a horrible second strike in winter, the number of infected people became constantly smaller. Around the whole world 14,142 people have died since March 2009 due to H1N1, which means that it was much less dangerous than normal flu. The same amount of people die every year due to the common influenza according to the Robert Koch Institut. However, critics say these numbers are not to be trusted, because they are used to influence people to get vaccination.
Germany still has to buy 34 million doses
Having ordered 50 million dose rates to be able to vaccinate 30% of the inhabitants (it was expected you have to receive 2 doses) Germany was now able to reduce this amount to 34 million. Instead of having to pay 416.5 million Euro it’s now expected that they have to pay 283.2 millions. Still, the new amount will be far too much and is a gift to pharma industry, as always the government acted in fear and panic without thinking about the costs. Compared to our current debts of more than 1.7 trillion Euro (1,700,000,000,000 €) this is nothing, but of course it always accumulates.
As of 2016 the government wants to reach a balanced budget, which was almost never reached (a news paper says two times since 1950, statistics say one time). You cannot take it amiss if people do not believe that the government will be able to reach their aim. Actually, I am wondering who controls if the state does not take too many new debts and what the consequences could be: The so called Schuldenbremse is nothing different than an EU law against too many new debts, just that no superior controlling institution exists.
Council of Europa Dealing with Topic
The Council of Europe begins analyzing the connections between pharmaceutical industry and WHO. The WHO has decided on a topic leading to investments of about 18 billion dollars worldwide, while the industry prepared for such a scenario knowing that the defition of pandemia was altered in a matter to exclude death rates and only check rate of spread.
However, it is always easy to make a lot of money based on fear. When the first hysteria due to SARS began, many people started buying security kits to protect themselves. The avian flu led to researches on vaccinations and the swine flu was the best point to make money from this product.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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