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Exposed: The
Swine Flu Hoax
Old-Thinker News | August 24, 2009
Editor note:
This article was submitted by Andrew Bosworth, a university professor
working in Japan and the author of “Biotech Empire: The Untold Future of
Food, Pills, and Sex” (Amazon)
By Andrew Bosworth,
Ph.D.
The alarm has been
sounded. Politicians, pharmaceutical executives and media conglomerates
would have us believe that a 1918-style pandemic is a real threat. The
1918 pandemic, however, evolved out of conditions unique to World War I,
for four specific reasons.
Why 2009 is Not
1918
First, World War I was
characterized by millions of troops living in waterlogged
trenches along the Western Front. This war zone became fertile
ground for an opportunistic virus, as medical literature reveals:
“…a landscape that was
contaminated with respiratory irritants such as chlorine and phosgene,
and characterized by stress and overcrowding, the partial starvation in
civilians, and the opportunity for rapid ‘passage’ of influenza in young
soldiers would have provided the opportunity for multiple but small
mutational charges throughout the viral genome.” (1)
Second, the war witnessed
the growth of industrial-scale military camps and embarkation ports,
such as Etaples in France, enabling the flu virus to enter into another
phase of accelerated mutation. On any given day, Etaples was a makeshift
city of 100,000 troops from around the British Empire and its former
dominions. These soldiers concentrated into unsanitary barracks, tents
and mess halls.
Today, many cities and
nations have dense concentrations of people; none of these, however, are
geographically isolated under the conditions of trench warfare and World
War I-style deployments. Of course, there are smaller, sub-populations
of people in prisons (prone to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis), in
military barracks (prone to respiratory pathogens and meningococcal
infections) and on cruise ships (prone to the Norovisus) – all proof of
the connection between human confinement on the one hand and infectious
disease on the other.
Third, after the war,
ships such as the USS Alaskan became floating Petri dishes.
Thousands of soldiers were packed like sardines for the long voyage
home, allowing the virus to reverberate within hermetically-sealed
units.
Fourth, returning troops
were stuffed into boxcars for the train trip back to military bases,
where they infected new recruits. Later, it was documented that Army
regiments whose barracks allowed only 45 square feet per soldier had a
flu incidence up to ten times that of regiments afforded 78 square feet
per man. (2)
The 1918 flu virus became
pandemic because, during World War I, the normal host-pathogen
relationship was abandoned when millions of young men crowded into
geographical confinement. In World War I, a flu virus was
presented with a seemingly limitless number of hosts – almost all young,
male, and with compromised immune systems. Unconstrained and unchecked
by the usual habits of human behavior, the virus went rogue.
Flu viruses are smart, but
they are not suicidal: if the host becomes extinct the virus will become
extinct too. The evolutionary strategy, from the virus’s perspective, is
to stay one step ahead of the immune systems of both humans
and animals – but not two steps ahead. The flu virus aims
to infect and reproduce without killing a critical mass of the hosts, of
the herd, so the virus’s virulence is ameliorated after it becomes fatal
for people on the margins of the host population – the weak and the
elderly. World War I disrupted this synchronized, co-evolutionary
relationship between flu viruses and human populations.
No flu since 1918 has been
strong enough to produce, in millions of people, a “cytokine storm,”
which is an immunological over-reaction leading to pulmonary edema (the
lungs filling with fluid) - the curse of those with the strongest immune
systems, normally between 20 and 40 years of age.
In normal flu pandemics,
even in severe ones, the flu virus kills a portion of the weak and
elderly. This appears to be the case in 1837 for Germany and in 1890 for
Russia in 1890, though reliable medical evidence is scarce. It was
certainly true for the Asian flu of 1957 and the Hong Kong flu of 1968,
neither of which were significantly fatal for young adults. The flu
1976-1977 has been exposed as a boondoggle, a fraud, with far more
people dying of the vaccine than from the flu itself.
Indeed, 1918 was an
aberration. Since then, no flu has scythed away so many people: some
500,000 Americans and anywhere between 25 - 50 million people worldwide
in three waves: first in March, then in August (the deadliest wave), and
in then again in November of 1918, lasting into the spring of 1919.
The origins of the 1918
pandemic can be traced back to the trenches of the Western Front in
1915, 1916, and 1917 – to the world’s first large-scale industrial and
international war. There was no other cause: If WWI had not been fought,
it is inconceivable that the 1918 flu pandemic would have been so
severe. Today, in 2009, absent the conditions of WWI, it is preposterous
for political and medical authorities to claim that the swine flu is a
menace to society.
The Mysterious
Origins of the H1N1 “Swine Flu” Virus
If the current H1N1 swine
flu virus does become abnormally lethal, there would be three leading
explanations: first, that the virus was accidentally released, or
escaped, from a laboratory; second, that a disgruntled lab employee
unleashed the virus (as happened, according to the official version of
events, with the 2001 anthrax attack); or third, that a group,
corporation or government agency intentionally released the virus in the
interests of profit and power.
Each of the three
scenarios represents a plausible explanation should the swine virus
become lethal. After all, the 1918 flu virus was dead and buried –
until, that is, scientists unearthed a lead coffin to obtain a biopsy of
the corpse it contained. Later, researchers similarly disturbed an Inuit
woman buried under permafrost. (3)
The US Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology, with a scientist from the Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, then began to reconstruct the 1918 Spanish flu. Had Iran or
North Korea engaged in Frankenstein experiments (complete with
ransacking graves) to reverse engineer the 1918 virus the US and the UK
would have gone ballistic at the UN Security Council.
Interestingly, numerous
doctors and scientists suspect that the swine flu virus was cultured in
a laboratory. A mainstream Australian virologist, Adrian Gibbs - who was
one of the first to analyze the genetic properties of the 2009 swine flu
– believes that scientists accidentally created the H1N1 virus while
producing vaccines. And Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director,
“This strain of swine influenza that’s been cultured in a laboratory is
something that’s not been seen anywhere actually in the United States
and the world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza that’s been
identified.”(4) Because of this, the 2009 swine flu virus – which has
yet to be detected in any animals – has a rather suspicious pedigree.
The Propaganda
Campaign
Across the mainstream
media, reports announce one swine flu death after another (even though
ordinary flu kills about 35,000 Americans each year). Upon closer
scrutiny of what passes for journalism, the victims have “underlying
health problems,” or “a common underlying health condition,” or
“significant medical conditions.”
One news headline even
blared: “Swine flu mother dies after giving birth, leaving her premature
baby fighting for life,” and only later, buried deep in the story
underneath, did it explain that she had “other medical problems” which
included being confined to a wheelchair because of a serious car
accident.
Citizens the world over
are increasingly skeptical of hyped headlines followed by smaller-print
caveats. They are uneasy with the effort to create “doublethink” – a
term coined by George Orwell in 1984 and a reference to
holding two contradictory ideas in one’s mind simultaneously, paralyzing
critical thought.
The media has never been
in the habit of reporting the cases of people who, for no known reason,
die of the flu. Out of the 35,000 Americans who die each year from
flu-related illnesses, some are bound to be relatively young and
healthy. It happens. This year, however, their stories are front-page
news.
More recently, news
reports now claim that the H1N1 swine flu can affect people in the lungs
and lead to pneumonia. This, however, is what separates the flu from the
common cold in the first place; and this is why tens of thousands of
elderly people die of flu-related symptoms each year. Fox News even
claimed that “this one morphs and mutates and comes back in different
ways…,” (like all flu viruses). In short, the media now uses
the flu’s own ordinary symptoms to fuel fear.
Fortunately, a growing
wave of online media challenges the propaganda. Back in 1976, there were
no rival voices, and the Center for Disease Control’s manipulative
television commercials dominated the airwaves. Fortunately, as a
testament to official shamelessness, these videos are now archived and
searchable on the Internet under the title of “1976 Swine Flu
Propaganda.”
Now, like then, the US
government’s pandemic policy alternates between the ridiculous and the
repugnant. The government’s flu website is revealing. First, the
historical section on the 1918 virus is intellectually dishonest, making
absolutely no link between the unique conditions of World War I and the
flu pandemic; instead, the site propagates the erroneous notion that
this virus came out of the blue. (5)
Second, the site announces
an absurd American Idol-style video contest: “Create a Video
About Preventing or Dealing With the Flu & Be Eligible to Win $2500
Cash!” (Congress has earmarked 8 billion dollars for swine flu
prevention and can only offer $ 2,500 to the proles – or, rather, to the
one prole who, rising above mediocrity, best parrots the Party Line.)
And third, the site
encourages the use of Twitter to “stay informed…” There is something
mildly disturbing about the US federal government promoting Twitter as a
form of resistance to foreign authoritarianism, while, simultaneously,
using social networking to further federalize and protect the abuse of
power at home.
1976 + 1984 =
2009
In sum, it appears that
the 2009 swine flu pandemic will not be 1918. It
might be a 1976-style hoax, however, serving profit and power - with a
bit of Orwell’s 1984 thrown in for good measure.
Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D.
Author of “Biotech Empire”
(Amazon)
Notes
1. JS Oxford, A Sefton, R
Jackson, W Innes, RS Daniels, and NPAS Johnson, “World War I may have
allowed the emergence of ‘Spanish’ influenza,” The Lancet/ Infectious
Diseases Vol. 2 February 2002.
2. Byerly CR. 2005. Fever
of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I. New
York, NY: New York University Press.
3. Ann H. Reid, Thomas G.
Fanning, Johan V. Hultin, and Jeffery K. Taubenberger, “Origin and
Evolution of the 1918 Spanish Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin Gene, PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America. Division of Molecular Pathology, Department of Cellular
Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC.
Communicated by Edwin D. Kilbourne, New York
4. Paul Joseph Watson,
“Medical Director: Swine Flu Was ‘Cultured In A Laboratory,” This strain
of swine influenza that’s been cultured in a laboratory is something
that’s not been seen anywhere actually in the United States and the
world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza that’s been
identifiedApril 26, 2009.
5.
http://www.flu.gov/
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