{"id":1200,"date":"2009-06-11T21:15:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T21:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2009-06-11T21:15:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T21:15:41","slug":"swine-flu-pandemic-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"Swine Flu Pandemic 2009 (Official)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> THIS IS FROM 2009, SO IF YOU&#8217;RE LOOKING FOR THE LATE 2010 MEDIA FRENZY YOU&#8217;LL NEED TO LOOK AGAIN.<\/p>\n<p>So the WHO is still talking this up to create unnecessary panic!<\/p>\n<p>Just watching the news now and one statistic jumped out:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out of 13,217 cases in the USA, there have been 27 deaths&#8230; this is far fewer than die as a result of seasonal flu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Worldwide there have been around 30,000 cases, but only 141 deaths. So just what the hell are they going on about it for? You can <a title=\"BBC Swinr FLu Story\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/8094655.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> read the BBC story (and see the WHO talking itself up) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The most telling quote has to be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is the first flu pandemic in 40 years &#8211; the last in 1968 killed about one million people.<\/p>\n<p>However, the current pandemic seems to be moderate and causing mild illness in most people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It makes you want to scream, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDIT: THIS IS FROM 2009, SO IF YOU&#8217;RE LOOKING FOR THE LATE 2010 MEDIA FRENZY YOU&#8217;LL NEED TO LOOK AGAIN. So the WHO is still talking this up to create unnecessary panic! Just watching the news now and one statistic jumped out: Out of 13,217 cases in the USA, there have been 27 deaths&#8230; this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}