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Thursday, January 14, 2010


Just when you thought pig flu was here, getting worse, getting better, or even gone, boy, were you wrong.
A top World Health Organization official Thursday dismissed charges that the agency exaggerated the threat posed by the H1N1 virus and that it had been unduly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry to issue dire warnings about the swine flu pandemic.
So they didn't overreact. Did they under react?
"WHO has always been very balanced and sober in providing its assessment. We have tried very hard to neither overplay or underplay the situation."
Hmmm, that might be believable, if you hadn't see any pig flu news in the past year. So I guess they got it just right, eh?
He also said part of the reason for the relative mildness of the pandemic has been the unprecedented response by countries around the world that were prompted by the WHO's warnings.
See, they said it was going to kill everyone, and it didn't. It didn't because the WHO acted like a bunch of virgins on prom night. Typical governmental self-congratulatory bullshit. You're doin' a heckuva job, WHO.

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