I Won't Be Flued Again

It is interesting how approximately 36,000 people a year die from flu-related illnesses every year according to the centers for disease control and prevention, than out of nowhere a flu that has allegedly killed a handful of people in the United States and 25 in Mexico, according to the World Health Organization, is somehow regarded as a pandemic by the mainstream media.

After E. Coli, Mad Cow disease, Sars, and the Bird Flu, is it time to question the motivations for spreading mass hysteria over something that is less deadly than things that are accepted as a daily part of life - like getting out of bed? Perhaps we need a fear vaccine, as that seems to be the greatest threat of all, and can spread like a virus causing normally sane people to act panicky.

According to talk show Alex Jones of Prison Planet TV, 600 million vaccinations were made at $20 a piece for this flu. Someone is certainly making a tidy profit off this fear, not to mention whoever makes those germ masks.

According to an article in NewsWithViews.com, there are already new vaccines on the way:

"The swine flu outbreak is going to benefit one of the most prolific and successful venture capital firms in the United States: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Share prices have already risen for two of eight public traded companies in the firm's portfolio of Pandemic and Bio Defense investments. BioCryst, up more than 26 percent, to $2.21 per share, and Novavax, maker of viral vaccines, escalated 75 percent to $1.42 per share on the first announcement of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico.

Novavax uses genetic information and "recombinant, virus-like particle technology" to rapidly engineer a vaccine. Its technology has only been through Phase II clinical trials but might be released prematurely. Novavax's CEO, Rahul Singhvi announced Friday, "There is an emergency authorization avenue that is available that would allow us to use the vaccine in an emergency without further testing." The Division-E provisions would protect the company from all liability."

I personally came down with a mild case of the flu myself right around the same time that the so called "pandemic" broke out. In the doctor's office I was required as a matter of course to wear the mask, making me feel like Typhoid Mary, and having to take a swine flu test that involved having probes stuck up my nostrils. At the same time, my cool headed doctor told me that the risk of me having it was so low that there was no reason to even think of treatment at this time.

Using what I learned from Dale Carnegie in his book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, who wrote in his famous book that the Red Cross should knock on everyone's door and warn people of the harmful effects of worrying, I weighed the odds and believed I had a mild case of the flu and now I am over it. Without the knowledge I had obtained from Carnegie's fabulous book, I probably would have bought into the sensationalism and worried myself into mental and physical illness and perhaps caused myself to have a hypertensive crisis.

Much like it has with terrorism, it seems our government, as well as our controlled media, seems to love to safeguard us by taking something that has killed people at a local level, and creating a false perception of something apoplectic based on the fear of what might happen. Well, simple research shows that what you worry about happening in the future rarely does happen. As a former sufferer of chronic worry myself, I know how devastating it can be to you physically and mentally to constantly be looking for the end of the world - it can actually end up becoming a self fulfilling prophecy.

Yes, some people have actually died from the swine flu, and thousands from terrorism, and people have died in plane crashes. We do not live in a perfectly safe world, and if all we cared about was safety, we would all have to live in federal emergency camps, than what would be the point of living in the first place.

We're all going to die eventually, and we don't know how and why. What we do know is that we're alive today, and worrying about what might happen will probably lead us to miss out on what little time we have on this earth. Seems that our government, mainstream media, and the international "Health" organizations are not concerned with that.

Educate yourself: you statistically have a better chance of getting struck in the head by lightning two times than getting killed by a terrorist, and the odds of you getting the swine flu are probably less. Of course, issues such as terrorism and swine flu classes should be prevented and treated, but without the sensationalism and fear mongering that blows it out of proportion, without regards to things that really are a worldwide threat - fear and ignorance.

Just because a box with images creates what amounts to a horror movie based on isolated cases and speculation does not mean you need to carry the fear with you, just like you wouldn't carry fear with you after you watched a horror film at the local matinee. Horror film characters like Jason and Michael Meyers are fictional, but it is true that people have been killed by serial killers who were far worse - minus any supernatural powers. Be fearless, and chances are the positive thoughts will lead to a more positive, fruitful life. Otherwise, why bother getting up in the first place.