政府和傳媒誇大豬流感

政府和傳媒誇大豬流感 專家說
Government and media exaggerated swine flu say expert
January 2, 12:27 PM
Atlanta Wellness Examiner
A new study conducted by researchers at Harvard University and the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit in the U.K., claims that swine flu cases in the spring indicated a flu season that might have, at worst, been only slightly worse than normal.
哈佛大學研究人員和英國醫學研究理事會生物統計學組的一項新研究，聲稱豬流感病例在春季流感季節時，就算是在最壞的情況，都只是略遜於正常。
"It would have been great to have [had] that [information] back in June," said Philip Alcabes, an associate professor the in urban public health program at Hunter College's School of Health Sciences. "There would have been one more bit of evidence behind my assertion six months ago" that people were overreacting to H1N1.
Alcabes is also the author of a book which was published early in 2009 titled: "Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics From the Black Death to Avian Flu."

"I think that it was, from the very beginning, created as a crisis and overstated as a real threat," he said, adding that he did not want to understate the seriousness of influenza.
我覺得這是從一開始就被創造成為危機，和誇大為一個真正的威脅，“他說，但加句他不想低估流感的嚴重性。
Alcabes concluded: "Flu is a serious illness, it kills people." But, he added, "It does a disservice to public health when, in the name of a preparedness crusade, people create a narrative of crisis or catastrophe before we have enough data that this is happening." This is exactly what the media did.

In opposition, Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said he did not believe public health officials were overreacting: "I don't think it's been oversold. I think you have to prepare for the worst and then be gratified that it wasn't as bad as it was." Dr. Schaffner is also a consultant in public health policy and communicable disease control for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), so he would naturally defend the CDC's actions.

Why would such a fuss be made in the media about a type of flu which was predicted to be little different from regular flu? Swine flu seems to have been a re-run of the avian flu a few years ago when the media went into a frenzy and the government spent a few billion dollars on vaccines which went unused. Other theorists, such as the British presenter David Icke, claim that Swine Flu is part of a system named Problem - Reaction - Solution.

Source:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFluNews/swine-flu-blown-proportion/story?id=9270149&page=1
DAVID ICKE - Manipulation Techniques - Problem Rection Solution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nRrSQs3NbI&feature=player_embedded

Is swine flu part of Problem - Reaction - Solution?

http://www.examiner.com/x-3011-Atlanta-Wellness-Examiner~y2010m1d2-Government-exaggerated-swine-flu-say-experts