TOM MACK BLOWS THE JOINT APART DECEMBER 17. The public does not realize that medical conferences are held almost every day of the year, somewhere in this world, and that at these conferences there are mainstream professionals who, now and then, spill a few important beans which are overlooked by the press. Such a conference---on the smallpox situation--- was held in Atlanta on June 19 and 20 of 2002. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices heard a number of speakers, one of which was Dr. Tom Mack of USC, who said about himself: "My credentials include probably spending more time working up [analyses of] population-based outbreaks of smallpox than virtually anybody ever has." Mack had a few VERY interesting things to say. "Most important determinant to the eventual number of [smallpox] cases is whether or not somebody gets put in the hospital. And everything should be done to prevent that." What? Well, Mack is simply making clear what everyone wants to deny: the best place to spread an infection is the hospital. And since that is so, why is there such a push to vaccinate hospital workers? The push should be to keep smallpox cases out of the place altogether. Doesn't quite line up with the government picture of emergency measures for smallpox containment. "Unexposed [to the smallpox disease] community members have negligible risk. There is a substantial risk from a vaccine.It is the single most dangerous live vaccine." "That protection [from the vaccine] will not be maintained. It will gradually wane and we'll have to do it [vaccination] again and again." This from a mainstream doc who has some level of faith in the protective value of the vaccine. He is painting a very grim picture--- people vaccinated again and again, thereby increasing many times over the health danger of the vaccine. "The informed consent that you would have to prepare to vaccinate somebody in the public, if it's honest, would have to say that dangers would exceed the benefits." BOOM. "If people are worried about endemic smallpox [long lingering or permanent presence of the disease in the population], it disappeared from this country not because of our mass herd immunity [derived from the vaccine]. It disappeared because of our economic development. And that's why it disappeared from Europe and many other countries.[its disappearance is] not from universal vaccination." That's a wow and a half. Mack is echoing several medical historians who have pointed out that better and less crowded housing, better nutrition, better sanitation are the real reasons for the disappearance of smallpox---and a host of other diseases. But Mack is not an historian. He's a prominent USC doc who has worked inside smallpox in several areas of the world. Mack favors, by and large, containment of smallpox by isolating people who have the disease. But the US press has no stomach for protracted debates. I mean, why not do a show on NBC where Mack and some government "expert" sit down and square off and talk this out? Why not REALLY give both sides, instead of only pretending to? Would the public be interested? You bet. Would the government be interested? Would the vaccine manufacturers be interested? Ah, there is the rub. No guts, no glory. The TV networks have turned into complete mush, despite their "hard- hitting pieces." They fold up and walk away with their tails between their legs. They rationalize their position by saying they don't want to panic people, they want preserve and serve national security, homeland security. When HBO made its recent movie, Live From Baghdad, about CNN coverage of the Gulf War, it failed to mention that CNN's only real triumph was transmitting live feed of lights showering the night-time sky. The movie was about the valiant reporters who risked their lives to get that feed of white lights in a green sky to the world. It's called a soap opera. Whereas journalism is supposed to be about facts, and about where those facts lead. Dr. Tom Mack had some real facts when he spoke in Atlanta last June. Anybody out there have enough money to start a news channel? Want to rip the lid off the networks? It's a hell of a lot better bet than the NASDAQ. -------------------------------------------------------------------- December 16, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said yesterday he does not plan to be inoculated with the smallpox vaccine and recommends that other Cabinet members not request the inoculation either. "I do not believe it is necessary or should be taking place," he said. President Bush said Friday he will take the vaccine along with U.S. military forces but was not recommending the risky inoculation for most Americans. The inoculation will be free for those who want it, Thompson said over the weekend. "The president is doing it because he is the commander in chief, and he believes that if he is ordering his troops . . . to get this vaccination, he should do it as well," Thompson told CNN's "Late Edition." "He also is recommending that elected officials be considered just like the general public, and I have also made the same kind of recommendation to the governors and to health offices who are not going to be in the first line." Vaccinations for a few dozen military personnel began Friday. By late January, states are expected to begin inoculating health-care response teams and others who would respond to a smallpox attack. AP ------------------------------------------------------------ � Health_and_Healing - PULSE ON WORLD HEALTH CONSPIRACIES! �
