the WHO fucked up on the Swine Flu pandemic, and so it's a Big Pharma shill!

[SheilaT]

14. At the time, one soldier, one person only, at Ft. Dix, got

flu and died. No one else around him got it. Somehow, it was decided that we were on the very edge of a horrible flu epidemic and a vaccine had to be rushed into production.

It was at the time, not after the fact, that only one person got that flu.

There are also a lot of other things that are very different now from 1918. One thing is that almost all homes in this country now have running water, and regular hand-washing takes place in a way it didn't ninety-something years ago.

Another is that even though President Wilson was told over and over again to stop sending soldiers who'd been exposed to flu to other camps and overseas, he persisted in doing so. Army camps back in those days were very overcrowded. Many of the young soldiers were farm boys who'd lived in very small communities their entire lives and had never been more than a few miles from home. They'd not been exposed to a lot of the herd diseases, and so were highly vulnerable to those conditions.

I suspect that our current army camps (include here all other branches of the service) are far more sanitary than they were during WWI. Far fewer young people live as isolated from others as they did then. And so on.

Surely I'm not the only person out there who understands how different things are today.

All this is not to say that there could never be another terrible world-wide epidemic of some kind. But if that happens, it will come from some place we're not even looking at, is my guess.