[quote=CONCHO]Sorry, but I just couldn’t resist resurrecting this thread. 2009 was supposed to be the year that we were all going to die from Swine Flu. Looks like it didn’t happen…[/quote]
Absolutely possible and completely in line with profit driven entities. If a corp can capitalize further off an event by pumping up the fear factor it won’t let its shareholders down.
But the issue of a potential future deadly pandemic is not resolved by that. It has a life of it’s own now, so there isn’t a person on the planet that can say definitively that this flu is a non event. So far, there is no evidence that wishing has any effect on halting mutations. It is and will evolve as nature sees fit, which is beyond predictability.
With that said, I’ll still take my chances with the virus over the vaccine, because if it does mutate out of it’s mild form, the vaccine may be useless anyway.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) — Adrian Gibbs, the virologist who said in May that swine flu may have escaped from a laboratory, published his findings today, renewing discussion about the origins of the pandemic virus.
The new H1N1 strain, which was discovered in Mexico and the U.S. in April, may be the product of three strains from three continents that swapped genes in a lab or a vaccine-making plant, Gibbs, and fellow Australian scientists wrote in Virology Journal. The authors analyzed the genetic makeup of the virus and found its origin could be more simply explained by human involvement than a coincidence of nature.
Sadly, modern medicine easily has the ability to make billions via creating viruses if one chose to do so. Mix in a little no bid vaccine contracts with the government and you have a recipe for a windfall.
