TAMIFLU GILEAD CHAIR WAS ... RUMMY

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Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:45:38 -0700

Tamiflu gilead chair was...Rummy

 

 

 

 

Interesting, the only thing that will stop the Bird Flu is Rummy's old

business contact, who is accused of rigging the tests.

 

Must read.

 

 

 

TAMIFLU GILEAD CHAIR WAS ... RUMMY

 

 

 

Friday, October 21, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.com

 

NEWS AND ANALYSIS

 

Readers can be helpful, and one just wrote in to inform us of a link

that we had never imagined - Donald Rumsfeld, until he resigned and

joined the Bush Administration, was the chairman of something called

Gilead which just happened to make something called Tamiflu.

 

Now anyone who hasn't been on Mars for the last month or two, knows

that there were only two things that were going to stop the human

version of bird flu. One was a bird flu vaccine (which probably would

work better if you were a bird) and the other was something called

Tamiflu. Yes, that Tamiflu. In such short supply that the hundreds of

millions of orders that have been pouring into Gilead probably won't

be filled for another 12 months or so. But everyone has got to have it

because somehow or other it became established that Tamiflu really worked.

 

This was the party line, anyway, for about a week, until word began

trickling back in that maybe Tamiflu didn't work. In fact, the word on

Tamiflu has always been positive at first and then eventually

negative. It's a kind of pattern. We even find corroboration of it

here on the Democrats.com, in what appears to be either a chat room or

news roundup as follows, " Rummy was CEO of Gilead Sciences until named

to the Bush cabinet and, like Cheney, still has ties that bind to the

'old company.' Now isn't it an 'amazing coincidence' that the drug

Tamiflu patented by Gilead Sciences is being pushed by the National

Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases as the NUMBER ONE

choice for flu, which, wonder of wonders, is sweeping through in one

epidemic after another. "

 

The post from January '04 adds, " Tamiflu is now also being recommended

to fight avian flu ... Scroll through this NIAID page and you will

find Tamiflu listed as ahead of all other recommended drugs for both

prevention and treatment of flu. Trouble is, Gilead has been accused

of rigging the trials of Tamiflu as a preventive treatment. Meanwhile

Gilead is making a killing. "

 

The post then gives the following link:

http://12.31.13.115/HealthNews/reuters/NewsStory0106200324.htm)

 

We bet Gilead is still making a killing as is Big Pharma. Please

notice now that the orders are in, the hysteria has died down a bit.

Perhaps everybody is too busy counting the money. Or perhaps it was

never about anything BUT the money. We weren't entirely sure, but we

knew that none of it passed the old " smell test. " In fact, in serial

articles we claimed that bird flu probably wasn't going to turn into

human flu anytime soon, that even if it did, it didn't mean that the

world was in for a dose of 1918 influenza all over again. We just

couldn't believe that the people bringing us Spanish Influenza Redux -

with all the hype and horror - were remotely qualified to bring us

even the opening of an envelope.

 

We questioned everything, even whether 1918 was all just the fault of

a flu virus. Didn't seem likely to us then and doesn't now -

especially since we've come to understand what hygiene was like for

the soldiers coming back from the war, how vaccine providers

apparently unloaded their stock after the war, lowering immunities,

etc. and, finally how the new miracle drug, aspirin, was all the rage,

prescribed by medical parishioners everywhere. Aspirin lowers fevers

and allows flu to build until it bursts out all over the body with

renewed and potentially mortal violence.

 

And that brings us to today. Bird flu still rages and, yes, it may

mutate into human flu at some point and cause death, many deaths, or

fewer deaths, no one knows. It may indeed sweep around the world. But

of more worry immediately were moves of civil authorities to float

trial balloons about mandatory vaccination and to start sending vials

of superflu bugs around the world in the name of science. We demanded

that our viewers call the Capitol Hill and get out the word that the

government was to cease testing new vaccines, cease ordering TamiFlu

and bird flu vaccine, neither of which work or will work against

whatever it is that bird flu will turn into. Which at least some in

government would love because then they could turn the President's

apparent yen for martial law into reality. And Bush could use some

martial law about now. Hell, he could use anything, maybe even a good

book.

 

We hoped that this latest epidemic of hysteria would finally force the

government to come clean about other remedies - super doses of Vitamin

C and even the use of silver as an antidote. We're still waiting. Sigh.

 

staff reports - Free-Market News Network

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