Swine flu may infect half the U.S. population this year, hospitalize 1.8 million patients and lead to as many as 90,000 deaths, more than twice the number killed in a typical seasonal flu, White House advisers said. In a report by the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, President Barack Obama today was urged to speed vaccine production and name a senior member of the White House staff, preferably the homeland security adviser, to take responsibility for decision-making on the pandemic. Initial doses should be accelerated to mid-September to vaccinate as many as 40 million people, the advisory group said. - Bloomberg
Dominant Social Theme: Thank goodness for vaccines.
Free-Market Analysis: Swine flu is a good example of a dominant social theme at work. Swine flu isn't especially deadly in our opinion (or not yet), may even kill fewer people than a regular flu and it's questionable where it is spreading or how fast. But nonetheless, governments are moving ahead in a panic. The reality - whatever it is - is ignored as Western governments purchase mountains of vaccines - all made by a very few drug makers that are intertwined with the larger business and banking culture of the monetary elite. Yes ... another promotion in our humble opinion. Or it sure seems like one.
Anyway ... the monetary elite, having ginned up a panic, is now setting about to provide a solution that will immensely enrich the coffers of Big Pharma. Thus it is that this dominant social theme generates enormous wealth. In the fall, little boys and girls (and their determined parents) will line up to receive their jabs. Thus it is that society will be further regimented and militarized (control). Indeed, (remember?) dominant social themes are meant to generate wealth and control.
A sign of such themes, as we have pointed out, is the questionable nature of their assumptions and the governmental nature of their solutions. It won't do to have a dominant social theme that can be solved by individual human action. Oh, no! The dominant social themes spun by the monetary elite need the biggest of big solutions. They need radical GOVERNMENT solutions. Command and control is the hallmark.
Conclusion: We hear that if the world's public health apparatus tries to make swine jabs mandatory - at least in America - that there will be a backlash that will make the current town halls look tame. We hear that the same groups that helped point patriotic Americans at town halls are already starting to plot a strategy that will create a good deal of protest if activist government is overly forceful on this point. Truthers? Deathers? Call them anti-vaccine-ers. Another populist meme awaiting a birth of its own.
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