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5 Responses to “The H1N1 Debate (2)”

1. Ian Alterman said:

   Rationalists use Occam’s Razor (“The explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible”) to eliminate conspiracy theories. So let’s do that. Even if we accept the CDC numbers as true (though, as CBS reports, they may well be overstated):

   -H1N1 has caused ~1,000 deaths in the U.S. since it appeared in August 2008.
   -H1N1 has caused ~20,000 in the U.S. to seek medical care
   -H1N1 has infected “a few million” in the U.S. (though even the CDC is not sure, since it has asked the government to stop testing for it!)

   -Seasonal flu caused ~30,000 deaths last year
   -Seasonal flu caused ~3,000,000 people to seek medical care last year
   -Seasonal flu infected over 30,000,000 people last year

   Yet at no time – ever – has the government declared a “national emergency” based on the seasonal flu, which is far more infectious and far more deadly.

   So what does Occam’s Razor tell us here? It tells us that there is something incredibly fishy about the government declaring a “national emergency” regarding a disease that is 1/10 (or less) as dangerous as seasonal flu – and even going so far as to mandate the vaccination of certain populations (i.e., health care workers), where no such mandate has ever existed re seasonal flu.

   Finally, here is what we know about the vaccine itself: it has not been adequately tested (How could it have been? They started using it only weeks after manufacturing it!); it contains both mercury and formaldehyde; it has been proven to cause Guillain-Barre Syndrome (particularly in young children), optic neuritis, encephalomyelitis, Bell’s palsy, anaphylaxis, and thrombocytopenia; and it has already caused numerous confirmed deaths.

   A “national emergency” may very well be the next step toward forced vaccinations of most or all of the populace – despite the single suspension of such a mandate for health workers in NYS. Indeed, at the risk of being accused of an inapt comparison, “national emergencies” were exactly the exact way the National Socialists began enforcing their will on the German people (see, among others, Naomi Klein’s “Fascist America in Ten Easy Steps”).

   True, there is not enough vaccine right now to enforce such a mandate. But the vaccine is now being produced at a furious rate, in order for their to be enough for everyone. It will be critical to watch what happens at that point.

   Posted on 25-Oct-09 at 7:26 am | Permalink
2. James Lamberti said:

   Now let’s really apply Occam’s Razor: There is a known virus – there is a vaccine for the virus – get the vaccine.

   Posted on 03-Nov-09 at 12:36 pm | Permalink
3. Ian Alterman said:

   Mr. Lamberti:

   I am hoping you have your tongue firmly in your cheek. If not, I am surprised at you, since your comment has nothing to do with Occam’s Razor, but is rather an exercise in (il)logic. You are essentially stating that if A=B and A=C therefore A=D – which is, of course, faulty.

   Better luck next time…LOL

   Peace.

   Posted on 03-Nov-09 at 9:18 pm | Permalink
4. James Lamberti said:

   Touché. I appreciate your acknowledgment of logic and the example of algebraic proof, but those are tools of “rationalists”, a group from which you seem to distance yourself in your original post.

   Let us talk about the truth, the real truth, about your faulty algebraic proof “if A=B and A=C therefore A=D”. I think with this you’ve finally swayed me to “your side”. Although I have not been able to verify the specific DETAILS, I received a ham radio communication while sitting in my bunker from a man, who while on a mission to uncover the secrets of free masonry, read an article posted by an expert on an underground blog that can only be accessed from remote areas of the former Soviet Union where those in control have not been able to censor the interweb, and it turns out that A cannot equal D because D is not even a real letter.

   The letter D was created by the Illuminati in 1836 in an effort to control government. Until that point no such letter ever existed, nor did certain words (i.e. “D”emocracy). Prior to that there was a form of government referred to as “emocracy”. This is a form of government which has literally been erased from history. If you don’t believe me, just try to find some emocratic history. There is none! The Illuminati have successfully erased it. What else have they done? We’ll probably never know. And look at how often we see the letter “D”.

   I recently saw Elmo blatantly supporting it on a episode of Sesame Street. They went so far as to say that the show was actually being brought to the audience (children mind you) by the letter D (it obviously has funding if it can sponsor a television show). I would like to say for the record that I’ve never trusted that red (communist) Muppet, I’m pretty sure he too is Illuminati.

   It’s amazing the far reaching power of the “powers that be”. The letter “D” itself has been thrust upon us as a measure of control and countless years have been spent inserting it into words where it never previously existed, all to cover up emocracy.

   Did that sound crazy?! Now you know how I feel!

   Posted on 04-Nov-09 at 9:31 am | Permalink
5. Ian Alterman said:

   You’re finally getting it! Bravo! LOLOLOLOL.

   Seriously, though, your post is hysterical and brilliant. Bravo! If you are not a comedy writer, you should be. (And that is an honest compliment, not a facetious one.) Superb.

   As an aside, I am not quite as “out there” as you seem to think: I do not subscribe to the “illuminati” concept, nor to the “planet nibiru” or 2012 end-of-the-world theory. And although I am a minister, I am also a rationalist (they are not mutually exclusive, no matter what you may think), and believe in a 14+-billion-year-old universe, a 5+-billion-year-old earth, evolution (with “first cause”) and the scientific method.

   Peace.

   Posted on 04-Nov-09 at 10:42 pm | Permalink