EVERYONE LOOK AT THE PIGS! (or.. “Rummy”)
I'm sick and tired of all this swine flu nonsense.
The following is the result of my research into the origin of this "pandemic" and why the media is licking their chops.
So, if the swine flu "pandemic" is indeed being inflated by the media, what is our attention being drawn away from? Well... who says it has to be drawing attention away from something? Fear-mongering means attention, and the newsmongers love attention. And ad revenue. Don't forget the ad revenue. When people are afraid, they are glued to their TVs. We know this thanks to 9/11 and Katrina.
There is most certainly fear-mongering taking place in the media right now. I just saw a local news "special report" titled: "SWINE FLU DEATH". People love to hear about scary bad news... and these high ratings lead to more revenue for media outlets that focus on these sorts of things.
I think the issue here is not about "is swine flu dangerous", but about a misuse of language. Remember those nutty creationists who used a different word definition when they said "evolution is just a theory?" Same thing here.
Medically, a pandemic means above normal transmission and/or mortality rate. The 1918 flu pandemic had a 2.5% mortality rate, for instance... but "2.5%" doesn't sell newspapers. "Pandemic" does. What would you do if you were a failing newspaper?
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I'm also surprised no one has mentioned this: Swine flu, like avian flu, just happens to be cured (or at least hindered) by a single medication; Tamiflu. Tamiflu has sold millions of units that would otherwise have rotted on shelves or never been produced, and almost all of them just end up expiring. Whichever pharmaceutical company owns that thing is blatantly taking advantage of media and the idiots who believe it.
Well it turns out that the name of the pharmaceutical company that produces Tamiflu is called Gilead Sciences, Inc.
OK, well, now we know the company that would financially benefit from a pandemic, real or fake, but who individually would stand to benefit? Well, for one...
Donald Rumsfeld.
Donald "I was so retarded that I got fired by George W. Bush" Rumsfeld.
Don't believe it? Here's the SNOPES.COM ARTICLE that completely explains his ties to this company. Here's my favorite part:
"It is true that Donald Rumsfeld does indeed have stock holdings in Gilead Sciences, Inc. Rumsfeld was a member of Gilead's board of directors between 1988 and 2001... until he joined President George W. Bush's cabinet as Secretary of Defense. According to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld, he has Gilead stock holdings valued at between $5 million and $25 million."
You asshole.