Aspirin kills 400% more people than H1N1 swine flu
Nov. 20, 2009
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(NaturalNews) The CDC now reports that nearly 4,000 Americans have been killed by
H1N1 swine flu. This number is supposed to sound big and scary, motivating millions of
people to go out and pay good money to be injected with untested, unproven H1N1
vaccines. But let's put the number in perspective: Did you know that more than four times
as many people are killed each year by common NSAID painkillers like aspirin?
The July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains it as follows:
"Conservative calculations estimate that approximately 107,000 patients are hospitalized
annually for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related gastrointestinal (GI)
complications and at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each year among arthritis
patients alone." (Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Recent Considerations in Nonsteroidal Anti-
Inflammatory Drug Gastropathy”, The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998, p. 31S)
So for every person the CDC claims was killed by H1N1 swine flu this year, common
painkillers like aspirin have killed four! Yet you don't see the CDC, FDA, WHO or
mainstream media running around screaming about the extreme dangers of aspirin, do
you? All those deaths apparently don't matter. Only swine flu deaths lead to hysteria.
Understanding risk
According to death statistics tables available on the 'net, you are ten times more likely to
die in a car accident this year than be killed by swine flu.
Nearly 100,000 Americans die every year from adverse reactions to FDA-approved
prescription drugs. That's twenty-five times the number of people killed by H1N1 swine flu
(even if you believe the CDC's numbers). So where's the big warning about the dangers of
prescription drugs? Why isn't the CDC warning Americans about an "epidemic of
dangerous drugs" that poses a far greater threat to your health?
The answer, of course, is that health authorities want to push people to buy vaccines that
are about to become worthless (they're only good before swine flu fizzles out). And the
only way to sell more vaccines to people who don't need them is to hype up a bunch of
scare stories by citing bold statistics that make H1N1 swine flu seem really, really
dangerous.
But the flu is no more dangerous than aspirin. In fact, H1N1 swine flu may be safer than
aspirin.
Here's another quote from the New England Journal of Medicine:
"It has been estimated conservatively that 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur among
patients with rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis every year in the United States. This
figure is similar to the number of deaths from the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
and considerably greater than the number of deaths from multiple myeloma, asthma,
cervical cancer, or Hodgkin’s disease. If deaths from gastrointestinal toxic effects from
NSAIDs were tabulated separately in the National Vital Statistics reports, these effects
would constitute the 15th most common cause of death in the United States. Yet these
toxic effects remain mainly a “silent epidemic,” with many physicians and most patients
unaware of the magnitude of the problem. Furthermore the mortality statistics do not
include deaths ascribed to the use of over-the-counter NSAIDS." (Wolfe M. MD,
Lichtenstein D. MD, and Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Gastrointestinal Toxicity of Nonsteroidal
Anti-inflammatory Drugs”, The New England Journal of Medicine, June 17, 1999, Vol. 340,
No. 24, pp. 1888-1889.)
Did you catch that? The 16,500 figure for deaths each year doesn't even include over-the-
counter painkiller drugs! If you add in those numbers, you're probably looking at
something closer to 40,000 Americans kills each year by these drugs. And that makes
these drugs 1000% more deadly than swine flu (because 40,000 is ten times greater than
4,000).
Swine flu vs. seasonal flu
Also according to CDC statistics, swine flu is only approximately one-tenth as dangerous
as regular seasonal flu. That's because the CDC maintains that seasonal flu kills 36,000
Americans each year (a figure that I've already pointed out is highly suspect, but that's
what they claim).
But even seasonal flu is nothing to get all worked up over. Unless you're in a state of
terrible health with a compromised immune system, obesity and asthma, beating seasonal
flu is a no-brainer: Just nourish your body with vitamin D, zinc, superfoods and natural
health supplements and let your built-in immune technology do its job. Your immune
system has already saved your life countless times. It knows how to do it if you give it the
right nutrition.
There are lots of things that are far more dangerous than swine flu and yet are openly
sold to consumers. Over 400,000 Americans die each year from smoking and yet you can
buy cigarettes at Walgreens, Wal-Mart and CVS pharmacies. That means statistically,
these pharmacies knowingly sell a product that kills 400 times as many people as swine flu
has this year. Where's the alarm about the epidemic of tobacco-related deaths? Nowhere.
Not a word from the CDC or WHO.
Also, if pharmacies really cared about your health, why do they openly sell a product that
causes cancer and heart disease? Think about it...
They're just trying to sell you something that will harm you
The fact is, pharmacies will sell anything that makes money: Tobacco, processed junk
food, and of course H1N1 vaccines. If they could make money selling influenza, they'd sell
that, too. To the pharmaceutical retailers, it doesn't matter how many people die from the
products they sell. They're just in business to sell anything that turns a profit, regardless
of the consequences to public health.
And the vaccine industry is similarly motivated to sell you false ideas that make money. By
selling you on the concept that swine flu is extremely dangerous, they can manipulate you
into buying yet more harmful stuff they're hawking at pharmacies... like H1N1 vaccines.
And they're counting on the fact that the American people won't do the math (or can't).
Most people have a very poor understanding of risk, and the vaccine industry is counting
on precisely that risk assessment ineptitude to push its dangerous vaccines. If people
knew that they are 40 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to have their life
saved by a swine flu vaccine, very few would line up to be injected with one. But they don't
grasp the difference between numbers that are very far apart such as 10^2 versus 10^5.
To many people, those factors are "about the same" and it's worth getting injected with a
vaccine "just in case."
That's why I've always stated a simple truth that still holds true today: People who seek out
vaccine shots are the same kind of people who regularly play the lotto. Both decisions
demonstrate a complete lack of understanding risk vs. reward. In fact, if you get a swine
flu vaccine injection on the same day you buy a lotto ticket, you have a greater chance of
buying a winning lotto ticket than being saved by the swine flu vaccine.
Playing the lotto is actually smarter than getting a swine flu vaccine shot. Plus, the lotto
ticket won't potentially cause neurological damage that puts you in a coma or causes the
spontaneous abortion of your baby -- both of which have been happening to people after
receiving H1N1 vaccine shots.
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