From the CDC:
Each flu season is unique, but it is estimated that, on average, approximately 5% to 20% of U.S. residents get the flu, and more than 200,000 persons are hospitalized for flu-related complications each year. About 36,000 Americans die on average per year from the complications of flu.
Why are the CDC, the media, and White House going hysterical over the “swine” flu this year, which has so far killed just one American (an infant, not a healthy adult)? Many of the reports of deaths have been wrong or exaggerated, but the CDC continues to escalate their own warnings of mass casualties and illness despite this strain of flu being “mild“. For what? Why is it that the flu is suddenly so deadly that schools are being closed, workers ordered to stay home, and citizens told to avoid planes and subways? A little history:
If the outbreak indeed turns into a global pandemic, as WHO seems to think, we can expect not only quarantines, but the imposition of martial law in the United States. In fact, the government has planned for just such a scenario for some time now.
In late 2007, the Bush administration issued a “directive” establishing a “National Strategy for Public Health and Medical Preparedness” based on Biodefense for the 21st Century (see PDF). HSPD 21, short for Homeland Security Presidential Directive (signing statement bypassing Congress), defines “catastrophic health event” as “any natural or manmade incident, including terrorism, that results in a number of ill or injured persons sufficient to overwhelm the capabilities of immediate local and regional emergency response and health care systems.”
I suppose if an illness isn’t catastrophic enough to overwhelm the hospitals, the CDC can put the population into a panic, which in itself can overwhelm hospitals with placebos. The media loves a crisis, so of course they’re running with the idea too. Is this shaping up to be a dry run of martial law and forced quarantines? Why is the CDC creating such hysteria?
Posted by Steve 
