H1N1 Threat Exaggerated

Well, my prediction that Obama's estimates of H1N1 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths didn't quite come to pass (according to the CDC, who I don't trust). I said that his estimates would be 100 times too high and they were only about 10 times too high. But still, the scare tactic of the exaggeration is evident. Now that everyone can see that this was all a hoax, many are coming to their senses and finally seeing the establishment for what they are rejecting this horrible, insurance company payback that we call the Obama healthcare package. If government starts bailing out insurance companies maybe we'll have Mutual of Obamaha.

Scare Tactics, part 2

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/health/26flu.html?_r=2&ref=health

Even the CDC is saying that Barack Obama’s estimate of the effects of H1N1 (swine flu) virus are overblown. Half of the U.S. population (that’s about 150 million people), Obama claims, could be infected by this winter. He says that 1.8 million will be hospitalized, and that there will over 90,000 deaths from the disease! How low will he go to get this hell-care bill passed with the necessary pay backs to all of his corporate campaign contributors? I guarantee that Obama’s numbers are 100 times too high. More people will die from the regular flu than H1N1. The CDC doesn’t mind the exaggeration, though. They think that it’s OK to lie if it will “break the complacency”. Such is the mindset of those in power.

Scare Tactics, part 1

According to U.S. News and World Report, Tom Ridge, the former head of the Department of Homeland Security under President Bush admitted that he “was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush's re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.” He blamed both false intelligence reports and overreaction to them for the unnecessary raised alerts, and said that it was not his choice to do so.

Thank goodness he has decided to drop out of his bid for the U.S. Senate in 2010. That will make it easier for Pat Toomey to beat Arlen Specter.