Vacinas e...vacinas

Time Magazine’s coverage of the swine flu scare has a noticeable subplot - preparing Americans for draconian measures to combat a future pandemic as well as forcing them to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations.
In an article entitled How to Deal with Swine Flu: Heeding the Mistakes of 1976, the piece discusses how dozens died and hundreds were injured from vaccines as a result of the 1976 swine flu fiasco, when the Ford administration attempted to use the infection of soldiers at Fort Dix as a pretext for a mass vaccination of the entire country.
Despite acknowledging that the 1976 farce was an example of “how not to handle a flu outbreak,” the article still introduces the notion that officials “may soon have to consider whether to institute draconian measures to combat the disease.”
Later we discover exactly what this will entail, namely “when to institute mass vaccination programs,” according to Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan and a historical consultant to the CDC on flu pandemics.
Markel notes that the less politically combustible situation in America today compared to the post-Watergate era of Ford would make such draconian measures more achievable.
“Even so, he says, citizens still need to trust that the government is working for the greater good,” adds the article. “The American public has to be forgiving and patient and do [their] part too,” according to Markel.
Americans would indeed have to be very trustworthy and ultimately forgiving in taking a vaccine by government decree manufactured by a company that was been caught red-handed contaminating their vaccines with far deadlier viruses than swine flu.
As we reported yesterday, Baxter International confirmed over the weekend that it is working with the World Health Organization on a potential vaccine to curb the deadly swine flu virus that is blamed for scores of deaths in Mexico and has emerged as a threat in the U.S., reports the Chicago Tribune.
As reported by multiple sources last month, including the Times of India, vaccines contaminated with deadly live H5N1 avian flu virus were distributed to 18 countries last December by a lab at an Austrian branch of Baxter.
Since the probability of mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible, this leaves no other explanation than that the contamination was a deliberate attempt to weaponize the H5N1 virus to its most potent extreme and distribute it via conventional flu vaccines to the population who would then infect others to a devastating degree as the disease went airborne.
These are the people we are supposed to “trust” and “forgive” according to Time Magazine and Markel when the federal government breaks down our door, guns drawn and dripping needle in hand.

As vacinas da gripe devem seguir a metodologia até agora seguida, para a gripe sazonal, conforme as sequências habituais, porque fazem sentido e são eficzes e não provocam confusão no meio de um surto.

Não faz sentido confundir coisas diferentes.

Estamos a lidar com uma gripe?

Este vírus é um vírus da gripe?

Os habituais, mesmo os que sofrem mutações radicais, sofrem de forma que o hospedeiro não esteja preparado para reconhecer e assim se defender.

Esta situação é diferente.

Afinal que casos sabemos de facto que provocaram mortes.

Apenas os confirmados, os outros não sabemos.

Ao que parece os casos iniciais eram diferentes dos que passaram depois de transmitidos aoutras pessoas, dando a sensação que houve atenuação, como se o vírus passasse num processo de atenuação, como se faz num vírus para o aplicar depois vivo como vacina.

Mais uma vez é desconcertante as indicações e afirmações da OMS e da CDC.

Esperamos que não exista no meio desta grande confusão alguém ou algum grupo armado em Deus, ou no Grande Arquitecto.