Quote from drjekyllus:
It was a hoax fruitcake. It has nothing to do with the definition of pandemic. It has to do with these hoaxsters telling everyone that this thing could kill hundreds of millions of people. Look at the panic these statists caused. This swine flu is even less powerful than seasonal flu. It certainly didn't stop the WHO and other UN agencies from capitalizing on it. We know that Obama himself is an exploiter of crisis.
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This is page 4. If you read, you can see no one know the future of the new virus.
"Now let me go to the third issue: did WHO overplay the pandemic? The answer here is no, it did
not. I would like to refer you back to the speech given by the director-general, Dr. Margaret Chan,
when she first announced the pandemic. In that talk to the world, what she said was that we had
reason to believe that the pandemic would be of "moderate severity".
Now from the very beginning WHO has gone out of its way to let everybody know that the future
course of the pandemic was uncertain, that we did not have a crystal ball and could not tell you
at the beginning, which way it was going to go. This remains as true today as it was back then. It
is true, however though, when we're at the start of a new health threat, and particularly when
there are so any unknowns, that often times the public and the media can react very strongly to
the emergency of such a health treat, that at the time and all through the pandemic, WHO has
been very consistent in the information that it has given.
Now given this reality there is no health authority, including WHO, which can afford to sit back
before making decisions, and actions have to be taken, because we have to provide support to
countries and other institutions, working to reduce the impact of the situation. In providing this
information, WHO has always been very balanced and I think sober in providing its assessments.
We've worked very hard to neither overplay, nor underplay the situation and we have worked very
hard to try to reduce confusion, rather than to create it. Now, since we have always known, and
have repeatedly said, that pandemics can range from mild to severe, we have also pointed out
that the severity can change midstream. And given this situation, WHO and other responsible
health authorities have adopted a precautionary approach â that
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/vpc_transcript_14_january_10_fukuda.pdf