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WHO Are You… Kidding?

The Toronto Sun reports that the World Health Organization (WHO) is taking a lot of heat for its Swine Flu (H1N1) fear mongering.
In a thoroughly disgusting bit of doublethink, an unnamed WHO ‘expert’ said in testimony before the Council of Europe that accusations of incompetence “trivialize the deaths of over 14,000 people.”
The federal and provincial [...]

H1N1: The Great Swine Flu Media Scare of 2009

After helping to create yet another unnecessary panic around the Great Swine Flu Megalodemic of 2009™, CBS News is throwing in the towel already, even though we still have about three months to go, before we assess the results of our testable hypothesis.
Bird Flu.
Swine Flu.
Suburban heterosexual AIDS.
Ebola.
Next time the political class and the mainstream media [...]

The Great Megalodemic of 2009

30 August 2009, Bloomberg provided us with a testable hypothesis, regarding H1N1, aka Swine Flu.
“Swine flu [H1N1] may hospitalize 1.8 million patients in the U.S. this year… may infect as much as half of the population[,] and kill 30,000 to 90,000 people, double the deaths caused by the typical seasonal flu, according to the planning [...]

H1N1 Good News / Bad News

More news on the Great Swine Flu Megalodemic of 2009™.
The good news is, it looks like H1N1 (aka Swine Flu) has peaked in the USA.
The bad news is, the virus has mutated into resistant strains, as was more or less inevitable.
Invest accordingly.
CWE

H1N1 Survey

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reports that half of 1,003 Americans who responded to its 9-12 October 2009 News Interest Index survey, who are younger than 40, believe that the mainstream media is exaggerating the danger of H1N1, aka Swine Flu.
“…a view shared with 43% of those ages 40 to [...]

Profit from H1N1

USA Today reports, “[S]ome investors are trying to expose their portfolios to the swine flu.”
The article has a list of firms whose shares should benefit from mass death and hysteria caused by the outbreak of a virulent strain of H1N1.
Not exactly a happy thought, but more or less in keeping with what we are all [...]

Testable Hypothesis

Bloomberg provides us with an intriguing test of LMF Theory: “Swine flu [H1N1] may hospitalize 1.8 million patients in the U.S. this year… may infect as much as half of the population[,] and kill 30,000 to 90,000 people, double the deaths caused by the typical seasonal flu, according to the planning scenario issued yesterday by [...]

Is not! …
Is so! …

According to the Florida Today, “[T]here are no confirmed cases of the swine flu [H1N1] in Brevard County [Florida]’s 94 public schools, district officials said Thursday.”
According to the Florida Today, “Swine flu [H1N1] is likely in most Brevard County [Florida] schools, officials said Friday.”
Invest accordingly.
CWE

2009 is not 1918

AP reports that GlaxoSmithKline spokesmen announced on Thursday, 11 June 2009, that it would be ready within weeks to begin large-scale H1N1 — aka, swine flu — vaccine production.
Fear not, conspiracy theorists, there is a money quote for you in the story, “The likely scramble for vaccines will leave many people in poorer countries empty-handed.”

“WHO [...]