We're doomed!
Posted on 09/01/2009 4:15:12 PM PDT by neverdem
Edited on 09/01/2009 4:19:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
SWINE flu spreads four times faster than other viruses and 40 per cent of the fatalities are young adults in good health, the world's top health official says.
"This virus travels at an unbelievable, almost unheard of speed," World Health Organisation Director General Margaret Chan told France's Le Monde daily in an interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
Yep. I don’t believe it.
Considering the lack of coverage, the lack of deaths (VERY few have died from it), and the lack of quarantine, I tend to think the swine flu is a load of BS.
I will be very suspicious should it suddenly turn into a “pandemic”.
Unless ACORN is going around the country in NASA suits spreading the virus ;-)
this woman is a joke and a liar.....and a member in good standing of TEAM UN/Obama......she would happily have the US taxpayer foot the bill for anything she and the team could!
Only stat I saw is 1 infection leads to 1.5. Slightly faster than most flu but nothing extraordinary. Flu moves fast. If this one is a little faster, it won’t make much of a difference at all.
That works out to just under 15 deaths a day over a five month period. As of now this is overblown to the detriment of trust in the very institutions that are both obligated and empowered to disclose the real level of danger.
When WHO says 1/3 of the world population (2 billion) could very well be infected over the next few months they are really showing their socialist health care colors. This whole issue reeks of alarmist clap trap and opportunism. As I noted yesterday, officials are claiming that a nice even 10% of NYC residents have been infected. Not 8% or 11% which would sound like they actually have solid empirical proof but a nice, easy, consumer-friendly 10% that even recent high school graduates can understand.
30%, 50%, 2 billion are numbers that just give an impression of making it up as they go. I hope I'm right and if I am these prognosticators will have egg on their face but will claim that their efforts thwarted a true pandemic. And even then they won't provide direct proof of what they did to succeed in halting the march/death rate of the virus.
Margaret Chan is a globalist-socialist of the highest order....and makes no bones about it here:
transcript:
Address to Sixty-second World Health Assembly
Geneva, Switzerland
18 May 2009
Concern over flu pandemic justified
Dr Margaret Chan
Director-General of the World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2009/62nd_assembly_address_20090518/en/index.html
Reminds me of the "official" AIDS figures from the 1980's that never came even close to being accurate. After all, Oprah assured us we'd all be dead by now.
I have little, if any, faith in WHO.
little, if any, faith in WHO.
well do think obama”care” might be related to THIS?
The Commission urges WHO to
develop these health equity targets in consultation and to take
the lead in achieving them.
Target 1: Reduce by 10 years, between 2000 and 2040, the
LEB gap between the one third of countries with the
highest and the one third of countries with the lowest
LEB levels, by levelling up countries with lower LEB.
Halve, between 2000 and 2040, the LEB gap
between social groups within countries, by
levelling up the LEB of lower socioeconomic
groups.
Target 2: Halve, between 2000 and 2040, adult mortality rates
in all countries and in all social groups within countries.
In effect, achieving this target means reducing
the gap in adult mortality between and within
countries by half.
Target 3: Reduce by 90%, between 2000 and 2040, the under-
5 mortality rate in all countries and all social groups
within countries, and reduce by 95%, between 2000
and 2040, the maternal mortality rate in all countries
and all social groups within countries.
In effect, achieving this target means reducing
the gap in under-5 mortality between and within
countries by 90%, and reducing the gap in
maternal mortality between and within countries
by 95%.
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241563703_eng_part6.pdf
That's because Swine flu has little wings and a propeller.
We are a nation of scaredy cats. It’s the flu. Some folks will succumb to it, but some folks will also die from bee stings. So let’s scream like little girls and flail our hands in the air.
The whole of western civilization is overrun with tens of millions of wusses.
Good night, Eirene. Y’all need a size 12 on your backside.
I think we actually had this in our neck of the woods March of this year....
The fever and other symptoms match the descriptions given. WE knew we had something different. We all survived. I suspect some opportunistic effort buy the gov. to utilize a fake crisis to overwhelm more of our freedoms....just sayin’....
Table 17.1: Milestones towards health equity
November 2008 Global conference: “Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social
Determinants of Health”.
2008–09 Creation of post-Commission global alliance to take forward the social determinants of health agenda in
partnership with WHO.
2008–09 Economic and social costing of Commission recommendations and costs of not taking action.
2009 Meetings of Commissioners and social determinants of health champions to advance global plan for
dissemination and implementation of Commission recommendations.
2009 World Health Assembly resolution on social determinants of health and health equity.
2008–13 Research funders progressively dedicate more resources to research on social determinants of health,
especially in areas highlighted by the Commission.
2008–13 Increasing numbers of countries adopt a social determinants of health approach to health equity and develop
and implement social determinants of health policies, so that by 2013 at least 50% of all low-, middle-, and
high-income countries have a committed plan for action to reduce health inequity through action on the
social determinants of health, with evidence that they are implementing the plan.
2009–10 The Economic and Social Council, supported by WHO, set up a UN interagency mechanism for social
determinants of health with working groups dedicated to specific thematic areas, initially on ECD, gender
equity, employment and working conditions, health-care systems, and participatory governance, including all
relevant multilateral agencies and civil society stakeholders.
2010 The Economic and Social Council, supported by WHO, prepare for consideration by the UN the adoption
of health equity as a core global development goal, with appropriate indicators to monitor progress both
within and between countries.
2010 1st Report on Health Equity (report on global and national health equity surveillance framework indicators
and targets) to 1st Global Forum of UN Member States on social determinants of health and health equity.
2013 Review of progress on WHO social determinants of health targets.
2015 MDG target date; review of progress from health equity perspective: second 5-yearly global health equity
report and Global Forum.
2020–2040 5-yearly reviews of progress on reducing health inequities within and between countries.
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241563703_eng_part6.pdf
sorry....by, not buy.....
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