Swine Flu Hysteria

Have you noticed how frenzied the media reports were over the "swine flu"? The regular strains of flu that come around every year kill more than 30,000 people in the United States alone.

So far, this is much ado about nothing. I am not disregarding the deaths that have occurred, and the tragic loss the families of those victims feel.

I was stationed in Germany in the US Army during the last "swine flu" hysteria. That would be the one that lead to the giving of a quickly made and inadequately tested vaccine to millions of people, with the end result being that more people died of the vaccine than of the flu, and hundreds of people were left with permanent paralysis, Guillane-Barre Syndrome, blindness, and other debilitating legacies of the vaccine.

Those of us on duty in the military had no option concerning the taking of the vaccine; it was take it or face a possible Courts Martial.

The end result of that wise decision by the powers that be was that, in addition to many military personnel suffering the same permanent damage that I listed spoke of in the paragraph above, but the readiness state of our military forces was crippled due to the fact that in United States Army Europe, so many personnel were too sick to perform their jobs, I doubt we could have resited an invasion by Russia across the East German and other Communist borders.

Temperatures in excess of 104 degrees Fahrenheit were common. So many were ill there was not enough room in the hospitals for all the seriously ill, and so barracks became the medical confinement areas for the sick.

All due to the vaccine. We had no reports of actual swine flu cases in the military population.

Think about it.

The Title of this post will take you to an article about the Bird Flu Hoax when you click on it. Undoubtedly, there will be many stories on the "Great Swine Flu Hoax of 2009".