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| − | The '''Swine flu''' ('''H1N1''') virus caused a [[2009 swine flu panic|panic]] that lasted for about 20 months, from January 2009 to August 2010, and was notable for the premature official declaration of a [[pandemic]] by the [[Big Pharma]]-dominated [[World Health Organization]]. The [[2009 swine flu panic]] pressured national governments to make large purchases of drugs and [[vaccines]], later found to have been unnecessary, since the [[Swine flu]] turned out to be milder than most other yearly influenza waves.
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| − | In [[2020]] a strain of swine flu which researchers call G4 EA H1N1 was identified by scientists. It has been described as a blend of influenza found in European and Asian birds and the H1N1 virus, which is believed to have killed up to half a million people worldwide in 2009. Professor Kin-Chow Chang, who has studied the virus and is based at [[Nottingham University]], told the [[BBC]] that G4 was not a problem yet but added: “We must not lose sight of potentially dangerous new viruses.”<ref>''[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/new-virus-flu-pandemic-china-human-bird-pig-swine-coronavirus-a9592526.html "Flu virus with ‘human pandemic potential’ discovered in pigs in China"]''</ref>
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| − | It was the second of the two [[pandemic]]s involving influenza A virus subtype [[H1N1]] (the first being the 1918–1920 [[Spanish flu]] pandemic).
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| − | First described in April [[2009]], the virus appeared to be a new strain of [[H1N1]], which resulted from a previous triple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassortment reassortment] of bird, swine, and human flu viruses further combined with a Eurasian pig flu virus,<ref>''[https://semanticscholar.org/paper/4a034e350d1037fc93654f5ecb48bf4b6b81c046 "Geographic dependence, surveillance, and origins of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus"]''</ref> leading to the term "[[Swine flu]]".<ref>''[http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/11/swine.flu.who/ "Swine flu 'not stoppable,' World Health Organization says"]''</ref>
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| − | Some studies estimated that the actual number of cases including asymptomatic and mild cases could be 700 million to 1.4 billion people—or 11 to 21 percent of the global population of 6.8 billion at the time.<ref>''[http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2011/08/study-puts-global-2009-h1n1-infection-rate-11-21 "Study puts global 2009 H1N1 infection rate at 11% to 21%"]''</ref> The lower value of 700 million is more than the 500 million people estimated to have been infected by the Spanish flu pandemic.
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| − | The number of lab-confirmed deaths reported to the [[World Health Organization|WHO]] was 18,449, though this [[2009 swine flu panic|2009 H1N1 flu pandemic]] is estimated to have actually caused about 284,000 (range from 150,000 to 575,000) deaths.<ref>''[https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/pandemic-global-estimates.htm "First Global Estimates of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Mortality Released by CDC-Led Collaboration"]''</ref> A follow-up study done in September 2010 showed that the risk of serious illness resulting from the 2009 H1N1 flu was no higher than that of the yearly seasonal flu.<ref>''[https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20100907/h1n1-swine-flu-no-worse-than-seasonal-flu "H1N1 Swine Flu No Worse Than Seasonal Flu"]''</ref> For comparison, the [[WHO]] estimates that 250,000 to 500,000 people die of seasonal flu annually.
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| − | {{FA|National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE09)}}
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| − | [[FEMA]]'s National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE09) was scheduled for 27-31 July 2009.
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| − | NLE09 was a White House-directed, Congressionally-mandated large scale "terrorism" prevention and preparedness exercise which involved federal, regional and local public and private sector elements, and included participation by [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[Mexico]] and the [[UK]].<ref>''[http://911blogger.com/news/2009-06-26/national-level-exercise-2009-nle-09-july-27-july-31-2009 "National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09) - July 27 - July 31, 2009"]''</ref>
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| − | In "Sly Foxes, Wolves, and Men: Is Marxism Growing in America?", published in April [[2010]], [https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/307455.Dianne_Marshall Dianne Marshall] wrote:
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| − | If this readiness exercise took place, it went unnoticed to the public. The question is, was it originally going to concern the [[Swine flu]] pandemic? If so, was it altered due to the bold actions taken from an Irish Austrian across the Atlantic, named [[Jane Bürgermeister]]? Was the [[Swine flu]] originally going to be the international crisis that according to [[Joe Biden]] was going to "test the metal of this guy"?
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| − | We may never know the answer. Was it a coincidence that when Bürgermeister brought forth her charges to the [[FBI]] in June of 2009 that the true number of reported cases and deaths from the [[Swine flu]] were actually minimal, and the exaggerated climbing numbers were never mentioned again on {{msm}}? [[Swine flu]] was all hushed up?
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| − | The summer passed, and all was well, and then, slowly the [[vaccine]]s were reintroduced, this time more calmly. The media carefully explained the importance of the vaccines in the fall, and softly warned of a pandemic that was scheduled for the upcoming flu season that could kill millions of people without it.
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| − | At the time of writing this book, I do not know what fall and winter will bring but I have one serious question. Was a tragedy averted by the actions of Bürgermeister whose criminal charges are still in the legal court systems? We may never know if the two were connected. But even though all are innocent until proven guilty, the charges have brought the [[Swine flu]] scandal into the light, slowing down what appeared to many to be the ominous plans of an alleged non-transparent syndicate and their plans for a "North American Union".<ref>''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QehH8hhbNe4C&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=jane%20burgermeister&source=bl&ots=keHcqzIZEV&sig=ACfU3U1nMHi2yuuRcBeW4xmOQG2ougiDMg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT79PU_bjpA#v=onepage&q=jane%20burgermeister&f=false "Sly Foxes, Wolves, and Men: Is Marxism Growing in America?"]''</ref>
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| − | The TV-company ARTE commissioned a documentary film, <i>The Swine Flu Profiteers</i>, documenting how the [[Big Pharma]]-dominated [[WHO]] pushed trough expensive unnecessary measures, including purchases of the useless Tamiflu and large stocks of [[vaccine]].
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| − | {{QB|At the beginning of the millennium, the pharma industry faced slim pickings. There were no new, innovative products, and one asked oneself how to keep up profits. So the specialists in the pharma industry pushed the development of the [[vaccine]] sector, where they invented epidemic warnings and pandemics, to boost the sale of [[vaccines]].
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| − | The first thing that was attempted, was the much quoted [[Bird flu]]. It is worth noting that all the experts crying out against [[Swine flu]], were the same as the ones that cried out against [[Bird flu]]. With the pandemic declaration, a principle of pharma marketing was adopted. The pharma industry can sell their products better when people are frightened, so one has to create a fear psychosis, so that people get weak and demand the vaccine and flu medicine like Tamiflu.
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| − | The pharmaceutical company [[Roche]] had made giant profits from Tamiflu once before. The [[Bird flu]] gave the company record revenues, There was no evidence that this drug reduced the risk of severe complications or made hospital stays unnecessary, but governments bought the medicine for billions of dollars for the anticipated [[Swine flu]].<ref>''[https://vimeo.com/403175258 "The Swine Flu Profiteers"]''</ref>}}
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| − | In 2013, four years after the swine flu scandal, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health published an analysis of the coverage in twelve British newspapers. Academics with links to the [[big pharma|pharmaceutical industry]] were more six times<ref>https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/de-grote-mond-en-het-gelijk-van-ab-osterhaus~bda6b843/?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2F</ref> more likely to talk up the risks of the 2009-10 swine flu pandemic in the media and promote the use of drugs than those without these ties.<ref>https://jech.bmj.com/content/68/3/197</ref> <ref>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131111185510.htm</ref>
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| − | Since the media has been shown to influence public risk perception and demand for new drugs, and these experts also sit on scientific advisory committees, this amounted to a massive hidden big pharma influence.
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| − | *Academics with competing interests were more likely to predict a higher risk to the public from the pandemic than official agencies compared with those without any competing interests.
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| − | *Academics promoting the use of antiviral medication were more likely to have a competing interest than those not commenting on its use.
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| − | The US government had bought 229 million doses of H1N1 vaccines of which 91 million doses were used; of the surplus, five million doses were stored in bulk, 15 million doses were sent to developing countries and 71 million doses were destroyed.<ref name=drummond>https://web.archive.org/web/20100402224921/http://www.aolnews.com/health/article/once-hard-to-get-h1n1-vaccines-now-getting-dumped/19422863</ref> In [[Germany]] of 34 million doses only five million were used, the rest of 29 to 30 million had to be destroyed, causing a loss of 245 million Euro at the time.<ref>https://www.aerztezeitung.de/Politik/Schweinegrippe-Impfstoff-wird-zum-Trauma-der-Laender-282510.html</ref>
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