Via Western Confucian, here's an hourlong presentation about swine flu from a Sister Teresa Forcades, a Spanish nun who is also a physician (and, alas, a pro-abortion feminist, which has nothing to do with her competence on medical matters)
An English-language summary of her remarks is here. The gist is that she believes the H1N1 panic may have been falsely ginned up for the sake of increasing the power of the state on a false pretext. A key piece of evidence for her case: the undisputed fact that Baxter, a vaccine manufacturer, sent a batch of contaminated vaccine to the Czech Republic, where it just happened to have been discovered by a researcher. Had people been vaccinated with this stuff, it would have killed untold numbers, and likely set off a new and very deadly global flu pandemic (according to a Bloomberg report on the Baxter error, up to 70 million could have died worldwide if the deadly avian flu virus in the Baxter vaccine had gotten into the human population). The conspiracy-theory take on this is that the Baxter foul-up, which the company admitted, was no accident, but a deliberate attempt to manufacture a global health crisis.
Basically, Scary Flu Nun warns people to be scared of H1N1 vaccines, saying that they could be dangerous to your autoimmune system, and could be used for nefarious political purposes. She says take the flu vaccine if you want, but nobody should feel panicked into doing so by a false and manufactured sense of crisis. She strongly hints that she believes a transnational conspiracy might be behind trying to frighten people about the flu for political purposes. She's either a smart lady who sees through some nasty things, or a dangerous conspiracy nut whose advice might make a lot of people sick or dead. Your comments invited.
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She's right, and she backs her facts up.
Don't take vaccines. Let your immune system do what it was designed to do. It is far more intelligent that the "scientists" who are trying to trick it.....
Completely agree with Berkeleyman.
This is an absolute 'must see'!
Berkelyman,
36,000 People who could have had a flu shot die every year in the US from that disease, because their immune systems couldn't do the job naturally. That's because the virus replicates like wildfire and kills before the body can make antibodies to it.
Learn some microbiology and immunology before you kill someone with your advice.
Clare Krishan:
Fellow Catholics note, that the supposedly comforting thought about European shots containing different stuff than what we're exposed to is incomplete - Baxter is using mammalian cell lines (derived from aborted foetal tissue) and recombinant technologies to manufacture sufficient quantity of Celvapan serum rapidly (instead of "old-fashioned" ethical and SAFE eggs).
Ummm.... I looked into this info.
Baxter is growing the virus in a Vero cell line. That line was isolated from the kidney epithelial cells of an adult African Green Monkey, circa 1962. The vaccine production process is considered ethical for Catholics, but probably not for Vegans who will in any case also have problems with flu vaccines made in eggs.
I'm not sure why production in the Vero cell line is considered dangerous. It's a well-characterized line that has been tested and used by biologists for over four decades. What makes this cell line particularly useful for flu vaccine production is that it can be infected with influenza viruses (seasonal, avian and swine) to produce virus particles without the need to rely on fertilized hen eggs. The technology has the potential to produce a vaccine more rapidly and could shorten the response time to new flu strains.
Vero cells are currently used in production of other licensed vaccines such as inactivated poliovirus (IPV) and inactivated rabies vaccine. The IPV vaccine was licensed in the US in 1990 and was(is?) one of the primary vaccines for inoculation of infants and children in the US.
Clare Krishan:
Fellow Catholics note, that the supposedly comforting thought about European shots containing different stuff than what we're exposed to is incomplete - Baxter is using mammalian cell lines (derived from aborted foetal tissue) and recombinant technologies to manufacture sufficient quantity of Celvapan serum rapidly (instead of "old-fashioned" ethical and SAFE eggs).
Ummm.... I looked into this info.
Baxter is growing the virus in a Vero cell line. That line was isolated from the kidney epithelial cells of an adult African Green Monkey, circa 1962. The vaccine production process is considered ethical for Catholics, but probably not for Vegans who will in any case also have problems with flu vaccines made in eggs.
I'm not sure why production in the Vero cell line is considered dangerous. It's a well-characterized line that has been tested and used by biologists for over four decades. What makes this cell line particularly useful for flu vaccine production is that it can be infected with influenza viruses (seasonal, avian and swine) to produce virus particles without the need to rely on fertilized hen eggs. The technology has the potential to produce a vaccine more rapidly and could shorten the response time to new flu strains.
Vero cells are currently used in production of other licensed vaccines such as inactivated poliovirus (IPV) and inactivated rabies vaccine. The IPV vaccine was licensed in the US in 1990 and was(is?) one of the primary vaccines for inoculation of infants and children in the US.
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