OCTOBER 14, 2004.
You've seen the press reports. Flu vaccine stolen from a doctor's office, now
on the black market. Some flu jabbers charging $80 to $100 dollars a shot.
Outrageous. Criminal. The CDC is running down these people. Will prosecute.
Well, I'm sure there is some truth to these tales. That's what makes a great
cover story.
What's behind it, though? The fact that somewhere between 6 and 27 million
contaminated Chiron flu shots were shipped into the US BEFORE the ban was put on
Chiron.
Notice how THIS story is fading from press accounts.
A few days ago, Reuters reported that the CDC was trying to track down
pharmacies and doctors' offices and clinics where the Chiron shots may have been
shipped from US distributors' warehouses.
But now, that revelation is taking a back seat to the more gut-level tales of
people overcharging for a jab.
I'm sure we'll be getting coverage of "unscrupulous Doctor X" who offered
patients a flu shot for $90 and this mother couldn't afford it so her son has to
go without his vaccine and the whole family is worried he'll get sick and die
because he gets very sick every fall from the flu and the kid has a guitar he
loves and he wants to sell it to have the money for the shot but his mother says
he loves that guitar and he's in a little rock band in kindergarten at school
and it's the only thing that gives him a sense of self-worth and the kid's
father left the family in the lurch four years ago because he was drinking and
he said goodbye to his son one day after he dropped him off at school and the
son hasn't seen him since and now a local businessman has ponied up the $90 and
the kid can get the shot and the businessman is putting together a group that's
donating money for free shots but there isn't enough vaccine available so the
group is flying in vaccine from Canada and they hope it arrives in time but
there is always a chance that in transit the vaccine won't be frozen at the
right temperature and so it will be spoiled and contaminated and no one is sure
what to do and the county medical association hopes it can examine the vaccine
and test it but it doesn't have sophisticated equipment so they're appealing to
health officials at the state capitol where they do have the equipment but
there's so much red tape and meanwhile there are pickets outside Doctor X's
office and he said he never said $90 and it was all a misunderstanding but now
he doesn't have any vaccine left and he has retained a lawyer and he's suing
Chiron because it's all their fault and Chiron states it acted in good faith...
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHIRON VACCINE IN 2003?
OCTOBER 14, 2004.
Here is an excerpt from a WebMD article dated December 11, 2003, written by
Daniel DeNoon. The headline was FLU WIDESPREAD OVER NEARLY HALF OF US. The
piece, from last year, mainly pumped up hysteria about the 2003 flu
season---which turned out to be relatively light when all was said and done.
The most explosive paragraph, in retrospect, concerned Chiron:
“Meanwhile, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced
today that the government will buy the last remaining 100,000 doses of the adult
vaccine from Aventis Pharmaceuticals. It's also buying the last 150,000 doses of
pediatric vaccine from that manufacturer, although shipment of the pediatric
dosage won't happen until January. Thompson and the FDA also are looking into
buying -- and licensing -- some 500,000 doses of a Chiron Corp. flu vaccine
approved in Europe but not the U.S.”
So the question is, did the FDA go ahead and buy 500,000 flu shots from Chiron
(shots that had not been approved as safe by the FDA), and did those shots get
into the arms of Americans?
If so, does the FDA have the lot numbers and can it track what happened to the
people who were injected?
I have a strong feeling, based on experience, that if I call the FDA, I will get
the run-around. However, reporters from major outlets might have more luck, if
they press it.
SO PRESS IT.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
BUSH WISDOM ON THE FLU VACCINE
OCTOBER 14, 2004. Here is a brief excerpt from last night night’s presidential
debate. It involves the flu vaccine.
My comments are in brackets.
SCHIEFFER: New question, Mr. President, to you.
We are talking about protecting ourselves from the unexpected, but the flu
season is suddenly upon us. Flu kills thousands of people every year.
Suddenly we find ourselves with a severe shortage of flu vaccine. How did that
happen?
BUSH: Bob, we relied upon a company out of England to provide about half of the
flu vaccines for the United States citizen, and it turned out that the vaccine
they were producing was contaminated. And so we took the right action and didn't
allow contaminated medicine into our country. [THE COMPANY IS AMERICAN. CHIRON.
HEADQUARTERED IN CALIFORNIA. IT HAS A PLANT IN LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.]
We're working with Canada to hopefully -- that they'll produce a -- help us
realize the vaccine necessary to make sure our citizens have got flu
vaccinations during this upcoming season.
My call to our fellow Americans is if you're healthy, if you're younger, don't
get a flu shot this year. Help us prioritize those who need to get the flu shot,
the elderly and the young. [The ones who are most likely to have a severe
adverse effect from the vaccine.]
The CDC, responsible for health in the United States, is setting those
priorities and is allocating the flu vaccine accordingly.
I haven't gotten a flu shot, and I don't intend to because I want to make sure
those who are most vulnerable get treated. [“Ain’t gonna catch me getting that
shot. Remember when Tommy Thompson said there was a vial of smallpox vaccine
with every American’s name on it, and then I got my shot, and later he said the
vaccine was dangerous and he was advising every member of cabinet not to get it,
and there I was with my ass hanging out in the breeze?”]
We have a problem with litigation in the United States of America. Vaccine
manufacturers are worried about getting sued, and therefore they have backed off
from providing this kind of vaccine. [Spin, baby, spin. Obviously, you know
nothing about the federal program of compensation for vaccine-injury victims.
The program everybody has to go through before they sue a vaccine manufacturer,
the program where it takes years going up against gov lawyers to get a few
dollars through corridors of a Kafka-like hell.]
One of the reasons I'm such a strong believer in legal reform is so that people
aren't afraid of producing a product that is necessary for the health of our
citizens and then end up getting sued in a court of law. [Cronyism plus sheer
idiocy. If a drug company makes a product that injures or kills somebody, there
is no recourse to sue?]
But the best thing we can do now, Bob, given the circumstances with the company
in England is for those of us who are younger and healthy, don't get a flu shot.
End of debate excerpt
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
THE HYPNOTIC EFFECT OF NUMBERS
OCTOBER 13, 2004. These days, the CDC or the World Health Organization can
report a new disease outbreak, and no matter how small the actual case numbers
are, if the media package is wrapped in the proper tone of warning/hysteria
backed up with scientific giggle-gaggle, everybody bows down and worries.
This is a major feat of PR.
The public has pretty much abandoned its own sense of what numbers mean.
Hell, most people have no idea how many people live in the US, any other nation,
or the world.
Let us take three situations. SARS, so-called avian flu, and West Nile Disease.
First of all, as I have covered in past articles, there is no convincing proof
that West Nile and SARS have ever been isolated as distinct viruses. So, right
from the start, we're treading on very thin ice.
Anyway, since SARS was named, WHO stats show that 8096 human cases have
occurred, worldwide, and there have been 774 deaths.
Since January 28, 2004, WHO reports 43 cases of human avian flu, and 31 deaths.
Globally.
The CDC states there are no reliable estimates for West Nile Disease in humans,
worldwide. In the US, since 1999, there have been 9122 reported cases of serious
WN Disease, and 628 people have died.
I could add various limiting qualifiers to these stats (which would lower case
numbers), but I'll forego that here.
Think about the stats, and try to put them in some sort of context.
People die all the time. Millions, for example, die of starvation.
100,000 people in the US alone die from the correct administration of
FDA-approved medical drugs every year.
It is certain, in the SARS, WN, and avian flu situation, that some of the deaths
have resulted from a combination of prior illness plus toxic medical drugs.
All in all, we are talking about a drop in the bucket, when it comes to death
and West Nile, avian flu, and SARS.
Yet, people are looking over their shoulders for a virus with teeth and claws.
And when they get sick, they accept whatever their doctors tell them.
I bring all this up, because I think that the recent John Keller revelations
about VERY, VERY FEW PEOPLE DYING FROM FLU IN THE US EVERY YEAR are flying right
into the radar of the public, which reflects: "Any number of deaths is
frightening, no matter how few, as long as the CDC or WHO claims it's a threat
to us all."
A million, 36,000, a thousand, seven hundred, four. It doesn't matter. People
don't make distinctions.
What matters is the tone of the announcement and who is announcing it.
That, my friends, is called slavery, is called fascism. And although it may not
be immediately apparent, the people who are wielding the spin are ultimately
after political power.
There is one more factor to add in. The word is CONTAGION. The public has been
conditioned up to its eyeballs to view POSSIBLE contagion as a dire threat, even
when it doesn't pan out.
Even when, in the matter of so-called SARS in Hong Kong, it was discovered that
a quarter of all the cases being reported centered on the Amoy Apartments
complex, where feces were leaking through toilet pipes from apartment to
apartment. Fecal-borne illness doesn't need people with samples under
microscopes, doesn't need spinning centrifuges, in a hunt for viruses. That
doesn't cure anyone. Plumbers cure people.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
VERY FEW PEOPLE DIE FROM THE FLU
OCTOBER 13, 2004. Two days ago, I posted a long piece which made a case for the
fact that, in the US, very few people die from the flu.
As of this morning, that piece is still on this page. See bottom story on this
scroll. [article now in archives]
John Keller started the ball rolling with a report that exposed the CDC's own
death stats---once pneumonia had been broken away from the eternal CDC category
called "pneumonia/flu."
Keller found, online, the CDC's flu-death stats for 2002 and 2001. Total for the
two years? Slightly more than 1000. Far, far, below the tired old
36,000-per-year figure the CDC trots out at the beginning of every so-called flu
season.
Two other readers of this site, John Cullison and Martin Maloney, searched and
confirmed Keller's discovery. A third reader came on board with the same
results.
Make no mistake about it. This is an astounding find. It undermines and
undercuts the US government's ceaseless pounding to "get a flu shot."
So far, no mainstream news outlet has picked up on Keller's report. And, as far
as I can tell, very few alternative news outlets have, either.
Of course, if queried, the CDC will tell you that its welded pneumonia/flu
category is necessary because, quite often, flu leads to pneumonia.
This is a generality, and as with most generalities, it is passed from hand to
mouth without detailed investigation.
Such an investigation would, first of all, confirm analyses of a great number of
flu cases in which flu viruses have actually been found in patients (viruses,
not antibodies to viruses) in very, very large numbers. (Very, very large
numbers of flu viruses in each patient.)
Step two would consist of showing that in these genuine flu cases, pneumonia
often follows. THAT would entail isolating pneumonia germs (not antibodies) in
very large numbers, in these patients.
Why am I so insistent on the finding of large numbers of germs in a given
patient? Because that is what you need to say that the germs are contributing to
illness. Just as it takes many people to dig up a huge field with small shovels,
it takes many, many germs to contribute to disease in a patient.
(Even then, the map is incomplete, because prior to the "germ invasion,"
something else has gone wrong with the patient. His immune defense was weakened,
as a result of non-germ factors: poor nutrition, unsanitary living conditions,
overcrowding, contaminated water, toxic medical drugs, chemical insult, and so
on.)
I would be quite willing to look at well-done studies which show, in the manner
I have described, that pneumonia often follows flu. I don't mean pilot studies
with a few patients. I mean studies that analyze several thousand patients at a
time. Show them to me.
Doctors or researchers who say, "Oh yes, I've often seen flu lead to pneumonia,"
or "Everyone in the field knows that flu leads to pneumonia," are ruled out.
That is hearsay and rumor.
Beyond the well-done studies I am asking for, it would be necessary to confirm
that flu progressing into pneumonia often results in death. Because that is what
we are talking about. Death stats.
At this point, I see absolutely no reason for the CDC to lump flu with pneumonia
in one category and list deaths for both as one stat.
In which case, we fall back on Keller's discovery that, by the CDC's own
admission, buried deep in its files, very few people die from the flu.
Which creates yet another reason to look with amazement on all this
fear-mongering surrounding getting flu shots.
I'd venture to say that, in my brief appearance on the Coast to Coast AM radio
show Monday night, only a small number of the 5-10 million listeners registered
my mention of Keller's revelation. It was too startling. It came out of the
blue. It was against the grain of so much government/medical propaganda.
In the same way, media outlets are hesitant, to say the least, to pick up on
this. It sounds preposterous. "Well, if what you're saying is true, then why is
the government doing so much to..." "How could this be?" "Why would the CDC
trumpet 36,000 deaths a year from the flu when its own figures contradict that?"
I am personally immune to such wondering, because for the last 20 years, as a
reporter, I have run into this type of situation over and over.
You would do well to read or re-read my long piece at the bottom of this scroll.
It contains information that is a key to understanding the situation behind the
situation we are now witnessing vis-a-vis Chiron and the flu-vaccine scandal of
2004.
John Keller's original report can be found at:
www.lewrockwell.com/keller/keller20.html#
John Cullison's report (which adds details to Keller) can be found at:
www.curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=74&i=576
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com