Swine 'Flu and other Fairy Stories

We haven't heard much about Swine 'Flu recently, have we? This, you will recall, was going to be the worldwide pandemic last year that was going to wipe us all out, or at least, most of us. In fact the media hype and government hysteria that went with it was remarkably similar to the same sort of furore that surrounded Bird (Avian)'Flu a couple of years back. That one also fizzled out. As a doctor, I felt that there was something about Swine 'Flu from the word Go that didn't quite ring true. I speak as one who survived the Asian 'Flu pandemic in the late '50s when people were literally dropping with it right, left and centre, and I can say from personal experience that it was a very nasty illness indeed. From that point of view, it was quite understandable for governments and the WHO to be concerned that they might have a problem on their hands, but their reaction to it this time was ludicrously inappropriate. The biggest mistake was to take diagnosis and treatment out of the hands of GPs, and set up telephonic helplines manned by young, inexperienced non-doctors or nurses who had only the vaguest idea about what they were supposed to be doing. If you phoned them up and told them that you weren't feeling well and had a headache or a sore throat, you would be told that you probably had swine 'flu, and were given a course of Tamiflu to take, while they ticked the clipboard and notched up another case of swine 'flu for the official statistics. In the meantime, doctors' surgeries were half empty for much of the time as the public had been told that they shouldn't go there.
However, what really grabbed my attention was a video on You Tube (actually 6 of them) called "Bell Tolling for Swine 'Flu". It's still there. Have a look at it. It is presented by a Catalonian Benedictine Nun called Teresa Forcades who also happens to be a Specialist Physician as well as having a PhD in Public Health. Benedictine Nuns are not given to overstatement, so it's a reasonable assumption that she knows what she is talking about. She also had grave reservations about the story behind the Swine 'Flu scare, and came to the scary conclusion that far from being designed to immunise against swine 'flu, the vaccines were actually designed to spread it. Now, this is almost unbelievable, but if there is any truth in it, we move out of the arena of official incompetence into that of criminal conspiracy.
At present, the Chief Medical Officer of the Council of Europe has also expressed his doubts about the whole handling of the Swine 'Flu scare by the WHO and others, and has launched an official investigation into it. I shall be very interested in the outcome. If it ever sees the light of day that is...