Michael Fumento: The swine flu pandemic is purely political

I heard Michael Fumento on the Dennis Prager show today talking about the "dreaded" swine flu. It was no surprise to me that he said it was a contrived political mechanism to panic people into demanding Big Govt do something...ANYthing to save us. When will the ignorant masses see the light? But I digress...

Here are a couple of the money paragraphs from Fumento's latest piece on the swine flu which we've been dutifully instructed to call the H1N1:

As evidence continues to mount that swine flu is more of a piglet than a raging razorback, why isn’t curiosity mounting as to why the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic? And definitions aside, why does the agency continue to insist we’re going to get hammered? The answers have far less to do with world health than with redistribution of world wealth.

Medically, the pandemic moniker is unjustifiable. When the sacrosanct World Health Organization (WHO) made its official declaration in June, we were 11 weeks into the outbreak, and swine flu had only killed 144 people worldwide — the same number who die of seasonal flu worldwide every few hours. The mildest pandemics of the 20th century killed at least a million people worldwide. And even after six months, swine flu has killed about as many people as the seasonal flu does every six days.

So how could WHO make such an outrageous claim?

Simple. It rewrote the definition of "pandemic."

A previous official definition (and widely used unofficial one) required “simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness.” Severity — that is, the number — is crucial, because seasonal flu always causes worldwide simultaneous epidemics. But one promulgated in April just days before the announcement of the swine flu outbreak, simply eliminated severity as a factor.

That’s also how we can have a "pandemic" when six months of epidemiological data show swine flu to be far milder than the seasonal variety. New York City statistics show it to be perhaps a 10th as lethal.

Okay, now go to his website and read the rest of his piece and don't be taken in by all the crappola Big Govt spews forth. You just can't believe any of it because they have ulterior motives...sinister ulterior motives!