While most people across the world have submitted to the fact that swine flu exists and that they may or may not get it, some are asking for an investigation into the World Health Organisation’s decision to declare it a pandemic.
What’s the Issue With Swine Flu?
We know that people are catching swine flu (H1N1) across the globe, a simple fact that should prove that the World Health Organisation was correct to call it a pandemic. Those who are less than convinced by swine flu and the World Health Organisation’s call on the matter are saying that, in reality, people are suffering much milder symptoms than we were originally made to believe they would. But is this really a reason to call it a scam?
Pharmaceutical Companies Cash-in on Swine Flu Vaccines
Of course, declaring swine flu a "pandemic" had the knock-on effect of assigning already rich pharmaceutical companies with the task of producing the obligatory vaccine.
Declaring a pandemic causes panic, of course, forcing governments and in-country decision-makers to get their hands on the vaccines to protect the populations they’re charged with looking after. After all, in the midst of widespread panic, how can a government turn to its people and say that swine flu’s not really that bad and they won’t have access to vaccines and bespoke medication? They couldn’t then and they wouldn’t be able to now.
So the question facing country leaders was not if they should get the vaccines, but how quickly they could be delivered to the masses.
Cue massive pressure on pharmaceutical companies to produce as much as they possibly could.
But do we really believe that it was the influence of pharmaceutical companies in the first place that caused the World Health Organisation to declare the pandemic? Surely not… But then 11 of the 20 members of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), who advised the World Health Organisation over swine flu, have either worked for the pharmaceutical industry or are somehow linked to it.
Swine Flu Vaccine is Dangerous
In addition to the theory that declaring a swine flu pandemic was wrong, are the claims that the vaccine that has been produced off the back of it is potentially harmful to health, as an ingredient in it has links to nervous system damage. Neurologists believe that squalene might increase the chance of people developing a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which causes paralysis and an inability to breathe.
A similar swine flu vaccine was apparently administered in the United States in the 1970s. Statistics show that more people died from the vaccination than from swine flu itself.
Swine Flu: The Figures
When swine flu was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, 144 people had died. Some of the milder pandemics, as declared by the World Health Organisation, of the last century or so, killed at least a million people across the world. "Seasonal" flu, that hits annually, kills up to 500,000 people every year.
The Department of Health originally said that there could be up to 65,000 deaths because of swine flu (some said 90,000), with up to 350 a day dying at the peak of the "pandemic." The current death toll stands at 251 in total.
Is Swine Flu a Scam?
Swine flu itself is no scam. It’s proven to exist and the deaths it has caused, even if there are fewer than predicted, are a sad and unfortunate reminder of that.
Even if ordinary citizens did approach the swine flu pandemic with a little more scepticism, would people have turned down the vaccine for themselves and loved ones? Knowing that people had died from it, would they have taken the chance?
There are certainly questions to be answered. Namely, we need to ensure that the World Health Organisation and other decision-makers acted ethically and with no other influence at play. If they did, lessons clearly need to be learned. Lastly, we need some reassurance that the vaccine administered was one hundred per cent safe. Only then can the conspiracy theories be labelled fact or fiction.
Sasha Arms - After graduating from university with a degree in Geography, Sasha became Managing Editor and Travel Editor of Futurespace Magazine. She ...
