This is a small amount of information on the swine flu fiasco, from a book I've written. Bear in mind that I know Dr Morris (Tony Morris), and have all the documentation to back all this up, both actual documents, the meidcal articles, newspaper articles and senate hearing documents. It's only a small part of the chapter.... but think about it. The power of fear.
This time, though the "danger" is more real, ~ but even so, you have to be aware that sometimes the propaganda is sometimes more dangerous than the actual threat. the actual threat is something you can prepare for, and panic isn't the best commodity to function from. You need a clear head, and a good understanding, not just of flu viruses and how they work and alternative medicine, but the fact that the media is primed to create fear and mayhem.
This chapter was all referenced, but in the book its notated using footnotes, which don't come out on a copy and paste. But believe me. If you know your own medical literature and get hold of the relevant senate records, its all there for the geeking. It followed on another chapter on the flu vaccines, and the things you weren't told about them either...
By the way, I was recently looking through the Appendices to Parliamentary Journals in the early 1900's here, and came across some fascinating reports from the health Department.
Did you know that there was a vaccine put out against the 1918 flu? It was called the Mixed Cattharal vaccine (sp) and because it was supposedly used with such "great success" in the forces in Europe, the year beforehand, the report detailed that they had made enough of it to protect the country from it. They even named the man who made it all, and clapped him to the heavens.
I gagged when I read it, and how it was all wonderful, and everyone would be just fine, jake....
Ah... and now? I guess the New Zealand Government just hopes you don't delve into their nasty little secrets, and find out that not only was that vaccine so "successful" (NOT) that also other vaccines were very successful. The the Acne vaccine that had been sold since 1911.. the gonorrhea vaccine, the common cold vaccine, the Pneumococcus vaccine, the scarlet fever vaccine... I was staggered to read this long list of vaccines that was sold which were supposed to pre-date sliced bread.
It really got me thinking. And by the way. At the same time, the government was proposing legislation called the anti-quack legislation. What for? To prevent fake doctors selling fake medicines.
A bit droll, don't you think?
Read on, if you have the energy....
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The Power of Fear.
In February 1976, in Ft. Dix in New Jersey, a swine flu strain had been found in one soldier who died on a march. It couldn’t be identified in the public health laboratory in New Jersey so they sent it to Atlanta, who designated it as a swine flu virus. It was believed that the 1918 epidemic had been due to a swine flu virus, but Paul Brown and Dr Morris, as part of the work in the islands had been able to prove that the 1918 epidemic wasn’t caused by the swine flu virus. It was PR8, another strain of influenza, that was discovered in Puerto Rico many years before. So the assumption that this swine flu would cause another world wide pandemic was wrong from the start.
Unfortunately, Paul Simpson, who then headed the CDC in Atlanta didn’t check that out. No other swine influenza virus was recovered except the one at Fort Dix, which was sent to Fort Detrix (the biological warfare unit) who found it was an ordinary pig virus, and that there was no reason to be alarmed.
The virus was given to Tony Morris’s lab to look at, and he found nothing to distinguish it from any other swine flu strain.
It seems that the CDC decided that this would be a good opportunity to revive the ailing flag-ship of flu vaccination campaigns which had taken a bit of a public denting. (This was all detailed in the previous chapter...)
The next thing that was discovered was that you couldn’t make a vaccine on that swine flu strain, because it grew too slowly. To do it, would take years. So Killborn hybridised the virus with PB8, the agent that caused the 1918 epidemic, which meant that the swine virus took on the fast growing properties of PB8. So the agent that was used in the vaccine wasn’t the pig strain from the solder, but a fast growing hybrid.
Simpson didn’t have the courage to go to the President and say he had made a mistake.
They sold the vaccine by dramatic hard sell, insisting that a flu epidemic like the 1918 pandemic that killed millions worldwide was imminent unless everyone lined up for the swine flu vaccine. The estimated deaths throughout USA were put at one million. In terms of the chances of it being like 1918, estimates were “1 out of 2”
The only problem was Dr Morris. Because of what he, and the other laboratories had found, he went public saying that there was no cause for alarm. When he told his then boss he was speaking out he was told “I would advise you not to talk about this”.
He continued to study the virus,, and also went public stating though there was no precise way to measure the vaccine’s potency its efficacy appeared comparatively low. Further, he could find no evidence that this strain would spread, or that it was serious, but that on the other hand, the vaccine was dangerous and might induce, not only hypersensitivity but also neurological side effects.
He held seminars on the National Institutes of Health campus. He sent letters to newspapers, talked to reporters, to anyone who would listen in the media.
Possibly as a result of this, Insurance companies came out and said they would not insure the vaccine, so laws had to be passed transferring liability to the Government.
When the Guillain Barre started, Tony Morris’s laboratory looked more closely at the vaccine, which confirmed their feelings about the issues surrounding both effectiveness, and safety.
After a sustained seven week public attack on the Swine Flu programme, on July 12, 1976, Alexander M Schmidt, Commissioner of the FDA fired Dr Morris for “insubordination” and “inefficiency”. In his letter he states
“Your direct disobedience of your immediate supervisor signifies to me, you unwillingness to exist within a necessary chain of administrative command.”
In other word, we told you to shut up, and you didn’t. As Tony Morris put it to the Washington Star on July 27, 1976:
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There is no doubt in my mind that Schmidt moved because I opposed the Swine Flu program.”
Tony worked out of James Turner’s small office and his own home, continuing to carry arguments to the press, assessing case histories of side effects and continuing to attend NIH flu meetings to argue the case.
Some people out there listened. Notably one Carmine Galante, know as “the cigar”, a Mafia gangster who, the Times said, would shoot you in church during Mass. Galante had been in prison from the early 60’s to 1974, when he got out on parole. He believed you should not talk, but kill. Trouble was that the then Mafia leader, 71 year old Carlo Gambino, who might have been ailing with a heart condition, was shrewd and had the measure of Galante.
But Galante had been listening, and managed to convince Gambino’s agents that Gambino should have the Swine Flu vaccine. He did. And dropped dead shortly after. With Gambino dead, Calante went after at least eight Genovese gangster members, and established his own Mafia supremacy until July 12, 1979, when he was cut down in a spur of the moment decision to go to a family restaurant.
By October 1976, there were already 33 people dead, and by mid-December there were about 500 cases of Guillain-Barre. But even up to December all authorities were publicly stating that there was no relationship between the deaths, or side effects with the vaccine. In December of that year, at an urgent meeting, Langmuir, who was one of the chief immunologists at the CDC at the time said “We cannot look at these data and not conclude that it was this influenza virus vaccine that precipitated Guillain Barre in those who developed it, so we must consider stopping the programme.” The round the table vote was 13 – 1 to stop the programme.
On December 16th, after 46 million shots, at a point where finally, three deaths had finally been “recognised” as being caused by the vaccine, the programme was stopped. But the main message continued to be denial, and more denial.
Tony Morris said to the Washington post 13th March 1977 about Flu Vaccines:
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It’s a medical rip-off… We should recognize that we don’t know enough about the dangers associated with flu vaccine. I believe the public should have truthful information on the basis of which they can determine whether or not to take the vaccine.” And he adds, “I believe that, given full information, they won’t take the vaccine.”
In 1978, two Harvard professors wrote in a government sponsored study that the failure of the swine-flu programme illustrated fundamental weaknesses in the nation’s scientific decision-making process.
Specifically, they said the director of the Center for Disease Control, who conceived the mass immunization effort, had “put a gun” to the head of President Ford by overselling the programme.
In 1979, the Civil Service review panel ordered the FDA to reconsider their sacking of Dr Morris, firstly because he had been motivated by public welfare, and also because the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 was designed in part to afford additional protection to whistle blowers, or employees, who exposed practices which they believed to be a violation of law, rule, or regulation, or to constitute among other things, a danger to the public health or safety.
Testimony given by Dr Morris, to the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, on 5 March 1987 showed that by August 1982, there were 1,571 lawsuits filed by individuals who had suffered serious adverse reactions from the swine Flu vaccination.
Of these by 5 March 1987, 290 had been settled at a cost of $57,000,000, and another 693 were still pending, with the amount requested by plaintiffs of $1,027,000.000. He said:
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These figures give some idea of the consequences resulting from a program in which the federal government assumes liability of a product known to produce in a indeterminate number of recipients, serious damage to health …when I left the Food And Drug Administration in 1976, there was no available technique to measure reliably and consistently neurotoxicity or potency of most of the vaccine then in use, including DPT vaccines. Today, 11 years later, the situation remains essentially the same.
Harvey Fineberg, in his book called “The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease” likes to convince himself that the message that the epidemic would never happen wasn’t really made, according to those there at the time. It would be more accurate to say that the vaccine machine ensured that the message wasn’t “heard” by drowning it out with rampant rhetoric for reasons of its own.
But the really telling thing about the whole Swine Flu issue, is that the people that really matter, still have not, and will not, learn anything from the issue.
For instance at a meeting on Thursday, February 29, 1996, at the Advisory commission on childhood vaccine, Dr Peter Patriarca discussed the Influenza Pandemic Plan. On page 2 of this plan is this:
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The successes and failures of the Swine Influenza Program of 1976 have been reviewed in detail elsewhere. Perhaps the most important failure of the program was the lack of a preemptive and proactive plan, which could have addressed many of the technical, political and administrative issues that ultimately hindered program implementation. This experience, more than any other, has underscored the need for the development of a comprehensive, contemporary and action-oriented plan.”
Only someone totally blinkered to the actual facts and problems that lay behind the vaccine – that the Swine Flu vaccine was unnecessary and useless, could write such utter rubbish as this. BUT… it is important to know these things, because these are the foundation stones to medical myths ultimately enshrined in text books. And if you do an internet search, you will find that there are people out there who truly think that the 46 million doses given, prevented a swine flu epidemic of the proportions of 1918.
As I've watched every year from 1990, 'this year might be the big one' influenza risk rhetoric being ramped up in the media, I can’t help but wonder whether, if the reporters who fall so easily, every year, to the scare mongering of today, really understood the issues behind it, whether things might be different.
I doubt it. Because I don’t think this isn’t about commonsense and never has been. It’s about money.
Even now, the fact that there are literally thousands of people in this country who have never had ordinary influenza in their lives, and are never likely to, is quite irrelevant. The fact that there are other ways to deal with influenza is quite irrelevant.
All the health department and the media want you to do, is believe that you are going to get flu, to get frightened, and go and have the vaccine. If not that, then Tamiflu is what they want you to have next on your shopping list.
Not something called common sense, self reliance and alternative medicine.
