I came home to find CNN putting up soothing articles, like “When a Pandemic Isn’t a Pandemic” and “Swine Flu No Worse Than Regular Flu.”
Apparently, you can have a pandemic without a large number of deaths. Or at least, that’s what the WHO is saying now. Before, the WHO’s definition of a pandemic, which appeared on their website, said
“that a pandemic flu causes “enormous numbers of deaths and illness. After a CNN reporter pointed this out, WHO spokeswoman Natalie Boudou called back to say the definition was in error and had been pulled from the WHO Web site.”
“It was a mistake, and we apologize for the confusion,” she said. “(That definition) was put up a while ago and paints a rather bleak picture and could be very scary.”
The correct definition is that “pandemic” indicates outbreaks in at least two of the regions into which WHO divides the world, but has nothing to do with the severity of the illnesses or the number of deaths.”
Now, to me, this sounds like the WHO still isn’t really sure what they want the definition of a pandemic to be. It seems very important to the WHO and other health agencies to constantly remind people that this new virus certainly isn’t shaping up to be like the 1918 killer virus. I have to wonder when, and not if, there will be another pandemic like the one in 1918.
Ron Paul left some very interesting comments about the swine flu apparently this is not the first time swine flu came about. He states in the past the vaccination killed more people than the swine flu did. And what I find really interesting is that I received emails months in advance talking about an outbreak of some sort.
Oh yeah? What kind of emails?