Altho the h1n1 panic is at a fever pitch at this time, it’s a safe bet that by summer 2010 the swine flu issue will have faded off into the boneyard of vaccine memorabilia. Policymakers have well separate that this queer type of illusion has a finite shelf life, due in no little portion to the ever-shortening attention span of the collective american mentality.
We ought to recall that the commotion in recent years over smallpox, anthrax, sars, and avian flu lasted only as long as essential for the drug and vaccine funds to be allocated. Once that happens, there’s no longer any motive to carry on to fan the flames of pandemic hysteria – a media campaign like that requires so much campaign, and costs so much cash to maintain, especially for a disease that never existed originally.
Any individual paying even moderate attention to the parade of emergencies that have been making their appearance recently with nearly routine regularity, might start out to be desensitized to the urgency of these situations, vaguely remembering that since they survived the last one, well they’ll in all likelihood survive this one in addition.
We see exactly the same sequence of events that led to the last swine flu fiasco in 1976 – 50 million were vaccinated with that untested vaccine. 21 deaths, 565 paralyzed, withdrawn in 10 weeks. And never substituted. Never substituted – that’s the point. Why not? If the threat was so urgent that we had to start out vaccinating before the vaccine was even tested, then where did that threat go? Why didn’t we just withdraw the venomous vaccine and then carry on with researching and testing to develop one that worked?
Licensed and untested. This is where the clear and present risk lies in the current swine flu vaccine program and immunization schedule. The swine flu vaccine is being presented for dissemination between the public and beginning with children. Five of the producers started doing their clinical trials in august of 2009. Before next spring none of these vaccines are expected to be completed. This is a shocking lesson on the politics of vaccines.
It’s getting very clear that natural selection favors the lines of parents that take precautions to guard and protect the immunity of their children. Will the fda come forward before testing a vaccine prior to making a determination or does the obligation lie solely on the research that’s been submitted by the companies who will make millions if the vaccine is approved?
The vaccine producers, who have been granted 100% immunity from liability for any deaths or injuries? The other regulatory agencies – nih, cdc, hhs – whose political connections to the vaccine companies are an issue of public record?
But that’s precisely what all the hurry, all the hyperbole, all the outright misdirection is regarding. They recognise that they don’t have time to come up with a to a complete degree tested vaccine – that would take a year. But by that time the imaginative disease are going to be gone, with no hope of raising it from the dead. The market is here and now. And every one – the clinics, the producers, the regulators, and the media – all want their portion of the rewards.
