The Fujian virus - promoting flu vaccines
The flu epidemic seems in full swing, if we look at media reports. I say 'seems', because the actual numbers are not worse than what happened in other years - so far at least.
Jon Rappaport traces the media promotion of this year's bugbear, the Fujian strain, and asks some pertinent questions which everyone exposed to the media hype should make their own. For instance, you may want to ask your doctor what "Fujian Flu Antibody Titer" means and why it is used to test. Doesn't the presence of antibodies indicate that the body has successfully killed off the actual virus, even in conventional medical terms?
So who is kidding whom? Rappaport of NO MORE FAKE NEWS says he smells a HOAX.
Rappaport also asks "where is the evidence" - for the effectiveness of flu vaccination. Has anyone seen it? Has a proper study ever been published?
HOW THEY WORK THE FLU SCAM
DECEMBER 14. If two dogs are fighting over a bone, and if they keep tugging and growling and biting and barking, all the other dogs are going to think that bone is a damn valuable thing.
After all, it must be if the two dogs are spending all that time getting it away from each other.
We are being treated to that kind of show with the flu vaccine.
OH WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?
THERE ARE LONG LINES AT CLINICS.
PEOPLE CAN'T GET THEIR SHOTS.
OLD PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR THE VACCINE TO ARRIVE.
WHO SHOULD GET IT FIRST? LET'S DEBATE THAT.
WE'LL USE THE NASAL SPRAY FORM, BUT IT WON'T LAST FOREVER.
SUPPLIES ARE LIMITED.
GET YOURS NOW.
THIS IS DEFINITELY THE FINAL OFFER.
CALL THE 800 NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN.
Sorry, I got two things confused there.
Get it?
Make this toxic flu shot seem like gold or diamonds.
People flock to get it.
Then cover them standing in the cold waiting. Photos. Roll tape on the evening news.
"Wow, they're all waiting. I better get my shot too."
Pretty soon there is no difference in the public mind between panic about not being able to get a shot and panic about getting the Fujian flu. It's all the same hyped-up panic.
"Hey, if they're standing in long lines, this Fujian thing must be some serious disease."
OH WAIT, WE FOUND SOME VACCINE IN FRANCE. THEY'RE FLYING IT IN. HOLD ON. THE CAVALRY IS COMING.
All that remains is to find the PR agency hired by the vaccine manufacturers to promote this Fujian demon with horns and scales.
The suppressed internal drug-company memo might look something like this: "Fred, this winter is very slow. We could be heading for one of the calmest flu seasons on record. I have been giving serious thought to this. A two-pronged approach is best. Focus public attention on the 'new Fujian flu,' for which there will never be accurate case numbers. And then declare a shortage of the vaccine…"
THOSE WEIRD AND CRAZY VIROLOGISTSDECEMBER 13. Try and bear with me on this one. I'm going to boil it down as well as I can.
To have a prayer of saying that a germ causes a disease, you certainly have to be able to find a lot of that germ in people you diagnose with the disease. Okay? You have to.
The amount of that germ per unit of blood or other body fluid or whatever is called TITER.
Titer traditionally is measured as you would imagine...by answering the question directly, HOW MANY VIRUSES OF SUCH AND SO TYPE ARE THERE PER VOLUME MEASURE OF BLOOD IN THE TYPICAL PATIENT.
BUT.
I've noticed something very weird in hunting down information on the so-called Fujian virus, which virus is being held responsible for the current flu "outbreak" in the US.
They don't talk about titer in the usual way. They talk about ANTIBODY TITER.
I suspect strongly that this is the case with much other viral research these days.
So what the hell is antibody titer?
Well, an antibody is sort of an agent or a foot soldier that the immune system sends out to locate and ID specific intruders like germs. And researchers say that there are antibodies that are specific to specific germs. So, for example, you would have certain of these foot soldiers that would be generated to hunt down and ID only Fujian viruses.
And it is thought that if you want to measure the amount of Fujian virus in a patient named Joe, you would take blood from Joe and see how many "Fujian antibodies" you can find---the thinking being: the higher the number of antibodies, the higher the titer of actual Fujian viruses.
EXCEPT THAT'S COMPLETELY WRONG AND STUPID AND IMPRECISE AND WAY OFF BASE AND USELESS.
Why?
Because the number of Fujian antibodies does not necessarily give you a good count on the number of Fujian viruses in Joe's system. Who knows? Perhaps some of those antibodies you're calling Fujian are really being generated by the body to go after other germs. Maybe Joe tends to produce huge numbers of antibodies whenever there is a threat of any kind, even a minor one...AND TRADITIONALLY THE PRESENCE OF ANTIBODIES MEANS JOE HAS KILLED AND DESTROYED AND ERADICATED AND WIPED OUT THE VIRUS. LOTS OF FUJIAN ANTIBODIES? LOTS OF DEAD AND BURIED FUJIAN VIRUSES.
Conclusion?
The current estimates of Fujian virus titer in patients are based on nothing.
The estimates of whether there are large or tiny numbers of Fujian viruses in patients are worthless.
And it makes you ask, why try to measure the number of viruses from the number of antibodies? Is it because you can't find the real viruses? Is it because there are so few viruses to find, in which case the whole idea that you have a disease-causing virus is nothing but blue sky and baloney?
At any rate, I'm making a call here. Nomorefakenews is saying that, until I see something very different, the virology behind Fujian flu is meaningless and absurd, no matter how many cute diagrams and micro-photos and trained seals in white coats they trot out.
There is no evidence that this flu or whatever they want to call it is Fujian in origin.
There is no evidence that we're dealing with anything more than regular flu.
And as you'll see in earlier stories of mine, the real statistics, such as they are, of sick and dead people in New York and Tennessee, are not convincing anyone that we have a "special flu season" this year...
HOAX. HOAX. HOAX.
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
See also:
WHY YOU SHOULD AVOID TAKING VACCINES - Dr. James Howenstine, MD.Dr. Mercola - Flu Vaccine Not Working--CDC Admits. What Are Your Options?
Looking back at the flu season, all that talk about how severe it was fades into a bland picture of hype and propaganda (March 2004):
What Ever Happened to the Flu Scare?Labs Urged to Destroy Pandemic Flu Strain
LONDON (AP) - Thousands of scientists were scrambling Tuesday at the urging of global health authorities to destroy vials of a pandemic flu strain sent to labs in 18 countries as part of routine testing.
QUESTION: What are the College of American Pathologists and other virus test kit manufacturers doing sending samples of a deadly 1957 Flu virus to thousands of virus laboratories?
Update 17 December 2003Jon Rappaport has some more pertinent comments - here you go.
WARNING ON FLU TREATMENT
DECEMBER 16, 2003. Watch out for the drug amantadine. Even the government-run British National Institute for Clinical Excellence, in its September estimate, stated, "Amantadine is not recommended for either post-exposure or seasonal prophylaxis of influenza."
Could be because the drug causes central nervous system (CNS) problems.
Keep on the lookout for any such mentions of CNS-type symptoms among those who receive medication for the flu.
Also note that the nasal-spray vaccine FluMist was approved for public use in June 2003. Charming that in the next "flu season" the regular flu vaccine has "run out," and they were "forced to go to the Mist." Yeah.
The Mist is not recommended for people with immune system problems. Let's see, that would be about, what, 70 million Americans?
Have you heard any such cautions issued?
WHERE IS THE PROOF?DECEMBER 16. Year after year after year, millions of people get flu shots. Where is the proof they work? I'm not talking about whether the vaccinations result in the production of antibodies. I'm talking about the announced and heralded benefit: prevention of the flu.
Where is THAT evidence?
Show it to me. The studies, using two very large groups. One group gets the vaccine, one group gets a placebo. Both groups are tracked to see how many get the flu.
I mean, of course these studies have been done, right?
SHOW THEM TO ME.
Apparently, at least one concerned medical doctor is asking for the same thing. Dr. Robert S Daum, of the University of Chicago Children's Hospital. Daum says, "This [flu vaccination] is a health care intervention that society is committed to---to the tune of 70 million doses a year---and we're wondering each year if it works."
Tsk, tsk.
SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE.
I SAY THERE ISN'T ANY.
IT'S RELIGIOUS FAITH.
WHERE'S THE VIRUS? THE FUJIAN FAIRY TALEDECEMBER 16, 2003. The bigger and more insane the lie, the more people will believe it---even after it's obvious it IS a lie.
In the last two days, AP has posted an article on the flu vaccine, explaining how difficult it is to make the right prediction, each season, on which strain of flu to build a vaccine against. Which strain will be the dominant infection in the population, etc. Blah, blah.
Buried in the story is this VERY interesting remark:
"Ten percent to 20 percent of H3N2 viruses around the world were Fujian [this year]. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] was having trouble isolating a sample that could be the basis of a vaccine."
COULD NOT ISOLATE THE FLU VIRUS.
OBVIOUSLY HAD ALREADY ISOLATED IT ONCE IN ORDER TO DETECT ITS EXISTENCE BUT NOW COULD NOT ISOLATE IT AGAIN.
OR HAD IT EVER BEEN ISOLATED IN THE FIRST PLACE?
OR HAD IT JUST BEEN INFERRED FROM SO-CALLED EVIDENCE?
WHEN THE CHIPS WERE DOWN---TIME TO MAKE A VACCINE---THEY COULD NOT FIND IT.
This goes to the heart of what I have been writing for years about the virus hunters. They are winging it. They have established certain patterns or rituals for discovering new viruses...and they stick to them even though they are not scientific.
The more arcane these rituals are, the more other scientists are cowed and refuse to issue challenges.
This is the Boy Who Cried Wolf, over and over. When the townspeople show up, the wolf isn't there.
"Oh the wolf was here, but he isn't now."
"The Fujian virus was here, I know I put it somewhere, but I can't find it."
This is sheer blue sky baloney.
"I can describe the entire genetic sequence and headlights and the grill and the fins and the color and door handles of this new virus...I just can't get my hands on an actual virus."
Sure. Just go back to your padded cell. We'll call you if we need you.
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Monday December 15 2003
updated on Monday October 6 2008URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/12/15/the_fujian_virus_promoting_flu_vaccines.htm
