World Health Organization Cries Wolf Over Swine Flu
Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:17AM 
Everyone has heard the story of the boy who cried wolf. He was constantly crying wolf and when help arrived, there was no wolf.
Eventually when the real wolf appeared, and he cried for help, his cries only found deaf ears and the boy paid the price.
This is what is happening today with the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and the Swine Flu Pandemic. Like the SARs virus in 2003, and the Avian Flu, the Swine Flu has turned out to be a pandemic fraud.
The number of Swine Flu deaths worldwide numbers only a few thousand. The number of deaths in the United States is less than 1000 and many of the deaths had other contributing factors.
This is not the first time Swine Flu has been the subject of international hype and hysteria. In 1976, the number of deaths from Swine Flu in the United States was projected to be one million people from the head of the Department of Health. That turned out to be wrong by 999,999 people.
Some will say that the international communities rapid response to the problem with money and vaccine was the reason that there was no pandemic. This is simply not proven to be the case.
The Swine Flu pandemic peaked in mid-October, 2009. Nobody had vaccine immunity in the United States then. Australia and New Zealand had incredibly mild flu seasons and there was no vaccine even available until the flu seasons ended.
The head of the Health Council of Europe, Wolfgang Wodart, recently called it "one of the greatest medical scandals of the century and is calling for an investigation of the World Health Organization's declaration that Swine Flu was a pandemic.
Wodarg claims that making H1N1 an official "pandemic" was a gold mine for drug companies. "The great campaign of panic we have seen provided a golden opportunity for representatives from labs who knew they would hit the jackpot in the case of a pandemic being declared.
Even within the agency, the Director of the WHO Collaborating Center For Epidemiology in Munster, Germany, Dr. Ulrich Kiel, has labeled the pandemic a hoax. "We are witnessing a gigantic misallocation of resources [$18 billion so far] in terms of public health," he said.
Indeed, it is a misallocation of resources on a global scale that has far reaching consequences. For example, in 2003, it was SARS hysteria, and not the relatively tiny number of cases, that cost the economies of East and Southeast Asia 0.6 percentage points of 2003 GDP according to the Asian Development Bank.
Also, consider that a World Bank report last year estimated that just the costs of avoiding infection during a flu pandemic, not the illness itself would shave off 1.9% off world GDP. Some poorer parts of the world including that containing Mexico, would lose 2.9% of GDP. The cruel fact is that wealth translates into health, so poorer nations could well lose far more lives from misallocated money due to the hype and hysteria than the actual virus itself.
Like SARS and the Avian flu, the World Health Organization has again cried wolf over the Swine Flu. Like that unfortunate boy in the fable the next time a pandemic is declared the cries of the World Health Organization may fall on deaf ears.
Then, it would be catastrophic for the international community if the real pandemic wolf were to appear.
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