Well, if you really are interested in tracking down all of those mythical H1N1 deaths, here's a good starting point:
http://portaldev.rti.org/midas-h1n1/reports/ Honestly, the naiveté on this list still sometimes surprises me. H1N1 is real, It is a pandemic: a brand new flu virus that has never before circulated in the human population. It has not (yet) mutated into a more deadly form, like the 1918 strain, but it still kills people. So does seasonal influenza. The current circulating H1N1 could mutate into a more lethal strain, just as the 1918 variant did. It has not done so yet. Sure, the big, evil drug industry corporate entities are going to make a huge amount of money off of H1N1. Yawn. The Bechtel Corporation is making a huge amount of money off of LANL. Yawn. The insurance companies in the United States make a huge amount of money off of the health care industry. Yawn. --Doug On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > What happend with all the victims of the H1N1 swine flu virus? Is it > possible that a bit of the hype was generated and exaggerated by the > pharmaceutical industry itself to sell a bit more swine flu vaccine? The > swine flu vaccine has recently been approved and bought by governments > around the world, certainly a multi-million dollar business. Somehow, the > hype was largest when the vaccine was under development and nearly > finished. > > This makes me wonder if it is possible > that the pharmaceutical industry generates > the threat of a possible pandemic to make money, just as the > industrial-military complex is able to generate the threat of WMDs to create > revenue. A ministry of defense which triggers a war and a ministry of health > which causes a pandemic - this sounds like George Orwell. Is our fate in the > hand of evil global corporations? > > -J. > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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