In June 2010 Labour MP for Newport West Paul Flynn accused the World Health Organisation [WHO] of scaremongering and causing unnecessary panic over a swine flu “pandemic that never was.”
And it looks like exactly the same thing is about to happen again. Proving once and for all we will never learn.
Mr Flynn, who has since compiled a report on the H1N1 virus for the Council of Europe, told BBC Wales’ Dragon’s Eye the World Health Organisation (WHO) made a “terrible mistake” in causing panic.
He added: “The result of that was that the world spent billions and billions of pounds on vaccines and anti-virals that will never be used. It was huge waste of money.”
He claimed that the decision by WHO, a body of the United Nations, to declare a pandemic had been influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
He said: “The firewall that should exist between the commercial interests, the pharmaceutical bodies, and the scientists has been breached.
Suggesting in laymans terms that the whole ‘pandemic’ thing appears to be no more than a carefully orchestrated PR & marketing campaign staged by the pharmaceutical industry, and which we all fell for hook line and sinker.
And they’re at it again this year too.
According to businessweek.com “Tamiflu sales have tumbled after the pandemic swine flu that swept the globe in 2009/10 waned and government orders for stockpiles of the drug were filled.”
So something will have to be done.
And sure enough in the run up to Christmas 2010 we were informed yet again of an impending flu pandemic, aided by the bad weather, which gained so much air time and commanded so many newspaper column inch’s we have again all but run out of anti-flu drugs. At least that is, drugs which are ‘in date’.
Leaving doctors forced with no alternative but to treat patients with drugs which are a year out of date, or not at all.
No matter which way you look at it, something just doesn’t seem right.
The Cardiff Citizen
