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The Great Flu Hoax of 2009: How to Survive It
By Pamela Gerry, Sherokee Ilse, and Dan Kenner NHF Board Members
December 14, 2009

(Sung to the tune of "Love Story")
Where do we begin
To tell the story of
how great a flu can be?
This Great Flu story
Might sequester you and me…..

Where Did it Begin?

WHO, the World Health Organization, through its mouthpiece Dr. Margaret Chan, sounded the alarm in April, but there were “rumbles” about an impending flu many months before that. In order to understand whether an alarm was justified or not, we might examine the WHO. A god-child of the United Nations, the WHO declared itself official in 1948, in keeping with the family tradition. Having no legal authority over sovereign nations, the UN and WHO can only operate as long as they are granted authority by those who acknowledge them. A quick review of the history of their actions will preclude any serious student of liberty and justice from doing just that.

The Fear Factor

The WHO established the “fact,” to the World, that something big and something bad was coming. In September, NHF member and Maine State Representative Andrea Boland and NHF Board member Pamela Gerry attended a workshop presented by the Maine Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Reading the handouts provided to the public, Gerry later reported that she “was embarrassed to be a citizen whose national disease management agencies would produce such shallow, repetitive material. They took over 30 pages of paper and ink to say what might have been reported in 5 pages. Such important topics as “Text Messages to Send to Your Employees,” “Flu Season Templates for E-mails,” and “Poster to Remind Sick Employees to go Home” revealed just what the CDC, Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Health and Human Services agencies thought was important in their printed collaborative effort. Full-color diagrams of in-depth hand-washing instructions, illustrations of proper sneezing format, and full-color frontispieces (ink-jetted), separating each section from the rest, reflect on the part of the authors a completely shallow understanding and almost total lack of insight regarding exactly what the important topics are in this flu debate.

At one point during the briefing at the Maine CDC meeting, it was reported that Dr. Dora Mills, head of the CDC in Maine, was making phone calls at 3:30 in the morning to update team members of the “latest” national flu-fatality statistics. Such vitally-urgent messages as, “We’re up to 436 now,” “We need to advise businesses that they need to make contingency plans to work with half-staffs,” and “People need to know that 25% of businesses don’t re-open after a major disaster” rattled through the phone networks at these wee hours. At one point, after listening to all of the dire predictions, one workshop attendee, Glenn Schwaery, PhD., of the University of New Hampshire, asked “Why all the hyperbole?” He pointed out that as pandemics go, this flu is mild, and seemingly, not taking the track it was predicted to take. There seems to be a lot of effect going on without much cause. When Rep. Andrea Boland asked the panel why the CDC was emphasizing the use of vaccines as its main recommendation for self-protection, and failing to mention anything else, liaison Sharon Leahy-Lind said she wasn’t sure, but would check into that and let her know. It seemed that the presenters were not prepared to expound beyond their scripted material.

The Ignorance Factor

Not to be outdone, on September 10th, a number of health-freedom advocates and organizational leaders met with the Minnesota Health Department’s Division Director of Infectious Disease a team of “vaccine staffers.” NHF Board member Sherokee Ilse and others asked quite a few questions and listened carefully to their answers. They assured us there would be no adjuvants in the vaccines (if there are, then the FDA cannot “license” the vaccines since that would require additional testing), yet the staff members could not explain why adjuvants had been ordered by some of the large vaccine makers in massive quantities. MHD tried to also assure us that there would be no School Vaccine Centers, no requirement to take the vaccine (“It will not be required; it is voluntary”), and that it would not be given to children without parent consent. However, there was some equivocation about whether or not the Governor could use his powers to call for a mandatory vaccine requirement. They also explained that Minnesota doctors are not testing for H1N1, only the Health Department has the facilities/laboratory. They are extrapolating flu case numbers based upon percentages from previous testing and they are only keeping track of those cases that are found in the hospitals.

When our team brought up concerns about possible side effects since there is no testing for pregnant women, children, and other immune compromised individuals that have been identified as the priority groups, MHD staff could not explain what could happen to these individuals. They kept relying on other flu statistics stating that this flu vaccine is really not much different and does not need to be tested. We asked them if they would release information to the Minnesota citizens about this lack of testing with the goal being that then at least people would be making decisions not based on “trust the government” but rather on the fact that there is a lack of testing, which might cause them to do their own homework. This did not appear to be even considered by the Director or the staff. They do what the CDC tells them to. It was clear that they were repeating the CDC guidelines and would not stray beyond them.

It is interesting to note that in Minnesota there are two vaccine exemptions. One is the reporting laws, which require schools to collect vaccine information from their students and in reporting whether a student has been vaccinated for the recommended vaccines, the parents can also report they have had none for either medical, religious, or philosophical reasons. The other law is one passed last year regarding health-care emergencies and bio-terrorism. It says that even in the face of martial law, citizens retain the right to refuse treatments, exams, and vaccines, but they could be quarantined, but the quarantine requires that the government follows due process of law and is the least-restrictive quarantine with a “stay-home” option.

The website www.pandemicfluonline.com has a "Model Legislation for States" that lays this out even more clearly in the case of emergency.

Why Vaccines?

The idea of vaccination began in 1796 in England when Dr. Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids seemed to never succumb to the smallpox epidemic that had been raging for eight years in his area. He noticed that most of them had cowpox on their hands and wondered if that was relevant. He took some of the pus from a lesion from one of the maids and scratched it into the arm of an eight year old named James Phipps, who then seemed to be protected from getting smallpox. Hence, the idea of vaccination was born, and Jenner is known as the Father of Immunology.

Current Distortion

The current vaccination protocol is a “lie based on truth,” said Dr Frederic Shotz, N.D., of Portland, Maine, at one of the many public flu forums taking place all around the country. “They took Jenner’s discovery and adulterated it.” The nature of disease is to enter a geographic area, fully express itself, and then begin to wane, as individuals in that area receive gradual, incremental exposure to the pathogens. This gradual introduction stimulates the production of antibodies that protect the entity from invasion. On the other hand, the process of artificial “immunization” (vaccination), tries to mimic the format of introduction and stimulation; but it mistakenly does so using a gargantuan, sudden onslaught of ingredients that are hundreds of times more concentrated and noxious that those in natural settings. Additionally, injecting a substance directly into a muscle is the most unnatural method of delivery for the body to receive. The universal mindset seems to chant the mantra, “Vaccines protect us from disease. They eradicated polio.” Until the populace de-programs itself from that fallacy, the population will continue to line up and roll up their sleeves. These graphs demonstrate the fact that 20th-Century diseases were already on the wane when vaccines showed up:

Legal Objections

As we go to press, there are at least three lawsuits that have been filed over this flu/vaccine debacle. The first is that of Dr. Leonard Horowitz and investigative journalist Sherri Kane, who have filed charges with the FBI in New York City alleging that individuals in an international biotechnology ‘trust’ are manipulating the pandemic flu, including its etiology and purported “prevention” through vaccination. The second is attorney Jim Turner’s lawsuit, filed on behalf of Dr. Gary Null and others in New York State, seeking an injunction against the FDA for approving the vaccine, alleging that the FDA broke its own safety rules in hastily approving four swine flu vaccines. At press time, we understand that a Temporary Restraining Order has been granted by the judge in the case. The third lawsuit has been brought by Jane Burgermeister, an Austrian journalist who has written for such periodicals as British Medical Journal, Nature, and others, and who is claiming in her lawsuit that there have been deliberate acts engaged in by the named Defendants to cause a pandemic and to profit from the same. Additionally, nurses around the United States are complaining that their civil rights are being violated by mandates that require them to be vaccinated or to lose their jobs.

Safety Questions

The CDC reported that clinical trials of the H1N1 vaccine began July 22, 2009. Ordinarily, clinical trials take well over a year; but in this instance, authorities are willing to use untested agents on all citizens. Additionally, on July 17th, Kathleen Sebelius signed a document releasing vaccine and government officials from liability when negative effects begin. Health officials, physicians, and consumers from around the Globe are questioning the safety of the vaccines and urging citizens to study the issue for themselves before they volunteer to be vaccinated.

Dr. Kent Holtorf, an infectious disease specialist, was interviewed on FOX news recently and stated that the flu is “losing its virulence. I am more concerned about the vaccine than I am this flu. It has been rushed to market, and is something I will definitely not give to my kids, nor take myself.” Dr. Russell Blaylock is a board-certified neurosurgeon, who currently devotes his time to nutritional research. He advises that “this swine flu scare is a lot of nonsense. Eat a healthy diet and take a few immune-boosting supplements and you will be fine.” Dr. Sherri Tenpenny has over 7,000 hours of research into the vaccine issue in general. She is qualified to report that, “Vaccines are not responsible for the eradication of diseases, such as polio and smallpox. Vaccines have not been proven to be safe. When a vaccine is called ‘effective,’ that is not the same thing as ‘protective.’ There are no double-blind, placebo-controlled studies in vaccine research. Vaccines are not ‘relatively harmless’; tens of thousands have been injured and have died as a result of vaccination.” She also states that to be current with the vaccine issue, it is necessary to spend 2-3 hours of study per day. How many doctors do you know who have that time or level of commitment to devote to such a topic? Those physicians and others who do have banded together to produce a website on the H1N1 saga. For timely updates, visit www.medicalvoices.org.

The Best Protection

During this flu season, or at any time, our best course of action to assure our highest level of wellness is simply to take good care of ourselves. In addition to the hand-washing and mouth covering that seems to be the best advice the CDC can offer, the following measures are routinely promoted as being health-producing:

• Don't panic. Pandemic is a scary word, but new research shows that even the deaths that occurred during the 1918 influenza pandemic were mostly from strep infections and not from the virus. Strep infections could have easily been controlled with antibiotics had they been available.
• Get extra sleep and rest. If you are used to getting up an hour early to go to the gym most days, change your schedule and use that hour for extra sleep during flu season. The body only heals itself during sleep, and all systems restore their cellular energies then also. If you have a ten-minute break in the afternoon, spend it horizontal for cellular energy conservation.
• Avoid sugar and refined products. Sugar makes white blood cell activity sluggish. See Nancy Appleton, PhD. site- www.nancyappleton.com for "146 Reasons why Sugar Ruins your Health."
• Stay hydrated with adequate water intake. Other beverages don't count for fluid intake, as many are actually dehydrating.
• Get out in the sunshine. Research shows that Vitamin D may be a critical factor in our susceptibility to colds and flu. The Public Health Agency of Canada is investigating the role of Vitamin D in seasonal influenza based on research involving over 19,000 Americans.2 The research showed that people with the lowest levels of the vitamin had the most frequent occurrence of cold and influenza3.
• Get regular exercise. We can't always control stress in our lives, but aerobic fitness can prevent its damaging effects on our body and immunity. Exercise will also pump the lymphatics.
• Eat out less. Pathogens are airborne and are much more likely to be prevalent in public dining areas. Blow your nose after being out in crowds, or traveling on jets. If you are tempted to get an ice cream cone out and about, don't. It is a perfect medium for germs to travel on.
• Avoid vaccines.
• Stay emotionally poised. Poor response to stress can negate all other beneficial aspects of your program.
• Maintain adequate Vitamin D levels.
• Use Cod Liver Oil.
• Take viable probiotics everyday and begin to use fermented foods to maintain proper microbial balance.
• Eat organic as able.
• Incorporate seaweed into your food plan.
• Chew each mouthful 25 times; don’t drink with your meals (because it dilutes stomach acids, causing incomplete digestion/fermentation.)
• Laugh and smile.
• Keep your colon moving.
• Breathe deeply, intentionally. Blow up a balloon daily to insure complete gas exchange from lungs.
• Add a few drops of hydrogen peroxide to your water daily.
• If you begin to feel compromised, start taking AHCC, olive leaf extract, ionic silver, oregano, elderberry, essential oils, or any herbs or remedies you have identified as being helpful in your life.

Next Stop

It is anyone’s guess where this Flu Story will go from here, or where it will end. Now that the live H1N1 virus has been introduced all over the World via the FluMist (the nasal aerosol version of the vaccines), we may very well see an increase of cases and a strengthening of the virus. At the very least, a minor explosion may well happen in the United States right around November 2nd, time enough for incubation of pathogens after the sugar bingeing that historically takes place on October 31st, Halloween.

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Pamela Gerry is a member of the NHF Board of Governors and a short biography can be found at: http://www.thenhf.com/GERRY_Introspective.htm

Sherokee Ilse is a member of the NHF Board of Governors and a short biography can be found at: http://www.thenhf.com/Sherokee_Introspective.htm

Dan Kenner is a member of the NHF Board of Governors and a short biography can be found at: http://www.thenhf.com/about_us/KENNER_Introspective.htm

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References
1 Klugman K.P., C. M. Astley, M. Lipsitch, “Time from illness onset to death, 1918 influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia,” Emerging Infectious Diseases 14(8): 1193-9, 2008.

2 Cannell JJ, Vieth R, Umhau JC, Holick MF, Grant WB, Madronich S, Garland CF, Giovannucci E., “Epidemic influenza and vitamin D,” Epidemiology and Infection 134(6):1129-40, 2006. Epub 2006 Sep 7.

3 Cannell JJ, Zasloff M, Garland CF, Scragg R, Giovannucci E, “On the Epidemiology of Influenza,” Virology Journal 5:29 2008. doi:10.1186/1743-422X-5-29