HOW MANY AMERICANS REALLY DIE OF THE FLU EACH YEAR? JON RAPPOPORT

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" HOW MANY AMERICANS REALLY DIE OF THE FLU

EACH YEAR?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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HOW MANY AMERICANS REALLY DIE

OF THE FLU EACH YEAR?

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

 

 

 

OCTOBER 22, 2004.

 

Ask the American Lung Association. Better yet, read their own report

from August of 2004, titled, "Trends in Pneumonia and

Influenza/Morbidity and Mortality."

 

 

This report comes from "Research and Scientific Affairs/Epidemiology

and Statistics Unit." At the bottom of the document, the source is

listed as: National Center for Health Statistics, Report of Final

Mortality Statistics, 1979-2001.

 

 

Get ready for some surprises, especially since the CDC keeps trumpeting

flu-death annual numbers as 36,000. Like clockwork. Year in and year

out. 36,000 people in the US die from the flu every year. Killer

disease. Watch out. Get your flu shot. Every autumn. Don't wait. You

might fall over dead in the street.

 

 

Here are the total flu deaths from the report. From 1979 to 1995, the

stats were released every two years.

 

 

1979: 604

1981: 3,006

1983: 1,431

1985: 2,054

1987: 632

1989: 1,593

1991: 1,137

1993: 1,044

1995: 606

1996: 745

1997: 720

1998: 1,724

1999: 1,665

2000: 1765

2001: 257

 

Don't believe me?

 

Here is the page:

www.lungusa.org/atf/cf/%7B7A8D42C2-FCCA-4604-8ADE-7F5D5E762256%7D/PI1.PDF

 

 

 

Get there and go to page 9 of the document. Then start scrolling down

until you come to the chart for flu deaths as a separate category.

 

 

Recently, Tommy Thompson, head of US Health and Human services, stated

that 91 percent of the people who die from the flu in the US every year

are 65 and older. So you might engage in a little arithmetic and figure

out how many people under 65 are really dying from the flu each year.

 

 

But no matter. The raw all-ages stats are low enough. Quite low enough.

Quite, quite.

 

 

Do you see what is going on here?

 

 

You can go into my archive and read recent pieces on this subject and

find my argument for those who blithely claim, "Well, harumph, you see,

uh ah, flu often leads to pneumonia and THAT'S why we have to be so

careful about the flu. Deaths from pneumonia are large numbers,

harumph, blah blah blah..."

 

 

It's a straight con, folks. The CDC is on a streetcorner with a little

table, and there are shills walking around repeating the 36,000 death

figure while the PR flacks at the table are working the vaccine angle.

 

 

The crowd is getting restless. A man shouts, "Where is my flu shot?

We're all going to die!"

 

 

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Congress is planning a measure that will

guarantee vaccine manufacturers annual billion-dollar payoffs no matter

how many doses are left over, unused.

 

 

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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