H1N1 (Swine) Flu Update No 37, in Today's News 08.28.09

H1N1 (Swine) Flu. We are now at the stage in the scare campaign when reporters and editors begin falling over themselves to please the cryptocracy and the directors of the swine flu panic.

Today the Associated Press released an article, "H1N1 flu on rise on college campuses." In this article we learn:

--Georgia Tech has had 150 suspected cases (out of 20,000 students)[less than 1%].

--University of Kansas has had almost 200 students with flulike symptoms. [Even a smaller percentage of the student body.]

--University of Alabama had more than 50 [51?] cases of flu reported.

--Texas Christian University had [a whopping] 10 students diagnosed. 

And that's it. That's what justifies a headline about swine flu on the rise on college campuses! A more accurate headline would have been 'normal flu rates at four colleges.'

The reportage is ridiculous because:

--No actual cases of swine flu have been reported!!! All we get is 'suspected cases', 'flulike symptoms,' and cases of everyday flu.

--The normal rate of flu at the beginning of the school year is not reported and compared to this year's. 

--There is no reportage about whether anyone actually became seriously ill, or whether all this is just sniffles.

Expect more 'reports' like this one in the coming days. Independent investigative journalism is a thing of the past. Now journalism is simply a reporting of what the cryptocracy and their employees want reported.

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The scare campaign directors took a little longer than expected to try to scare the daylight out of pregnant women. 

To enhance and give credibility to the directors' warning, the directors brought in a spokesperson for the American College of Nurse-Midwives to say pregnant women should get the vaccine. Presumably women would be more likely to believe someone from an organization with that name, who says, "By not getting the flu yourself, you are going to protect your children better."

In other words, 'you are being a horrible mother who doesn't care for your kids if you don't get the flu vaccine; and moreover, your kids will be infected with this terrible flu.' Pure demagogy and scare/panic tactics.

The delay in the announcement was probably due to finding a suitable spokesperson and then briefing her on the allegedly dire consequences for pregnant women to not receive the vaccine.