If Mainstream Media
Told The Truth
Swine flu 2009
Infectious scares (think of Coronavirus)
If a mainstream
reporter told the truth the pillars of reality would crumble
Some things never
change
by Jon Rappoport
September 24, 2015
“Imagine this. The
public is told a new disease is sweeping the world, threatening the
global population with suffering and death. Millions and millions of
words are spewed, detailing and reinforcing the threat. Every day,
official reports are issued, blaring the new numbers of cases.
Researchers are rushing to develop an effective vaccine. And then,
suddenly, someone discovers there is no epidemic. It doesn’t exist.
What would happen?” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
Telling the truth, of
course, must lead to publishing the truth.
And then follow-up
investigations would be done to flesh out the story further; to
prompt people with inside knowledge to emerge from their closets and
confess their complicity.
I’m talking about a
certain kind of truth, whereby a sacred cow is destroyed; the kind of
cow everyone immediately believes is self-evident, universal, and
vital, representing the best motives and impulses of people in power.
That kind of sacred
cow.
A cow holding up the
world, so to speak.
Destroyed.
There are many
important lies that don’t quite rate that status. If they were
exposed to the light of day, people would say, “Yes, it’s
shocking, but we always had doubts.”
And life would go on.
A monumental sacred cow
has the quality of being believed in the same way people believe the
sun will come up in the morning.
Therefore, when it
falls, the shock is volcanic.
However, I need to add
this disclaimer. Most minds and eyeballs simply don’t notice the
sacred cow falling and shattering like porcelain. It happens, but it
doesn’t draw attention because people will do anything they can to
maintain their grip on illusion.
It would take something
on the order of Kansas disappearing off the map overnight to arouse
the population—and even then, large numbers of people would claim
it didn’t happen, because it couldn’t happen.
So now I’ll describe
an example.
In the summer of 2009,
the world was agog as a sweeping pandemic called Swine Flu invaded
their lives. The virus said to be responsible for this catastrophe
was H1N1.
The Centers for Disease
Control (CDC), whose job was to report numbers of cases, claimed
there were roughly ten thousand Swine Flu victims in America.
Understand: getting the
numbers right was the CDC’s prime task. In the absence of doing
that, they had no reason to exist as an agency tracking an epidemic.
In the fall of 2009, a
CBS investigative reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, discovered something
quite strange. She hit the motherlode of a scandal:
Back in July, the CDC
had stopped counting Swine Flu cases.
The agency didn’t
make this public. It didn’t put out the story to reporters. But
Attkisson found out the truth.
She went further. She
uncovered the reason the CDC stopped counting.
Here is what Attkisson
wrote, on October 21, 2009, in an article posted on the CBS News
website, titled, “Swine Flu Cases Overestimated?”:
“If you’ve been
diagnosed ‘probable’ or ‘presumed’ 2009 H1N1 or ‘swine flu’
in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you
didn’t have H1N1 [Swine] flu. In fact, you probably didn’t have
flu at all.”
“That’s according
to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS
News investigation.”
“In late July, the
CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 [Swine] flu, and
stopped counting individual cases. The rationale given for the CDC
guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases was: why
waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already
confirmed there’s an epidemic?”
“…we [CBS News]
asked all 50 states for their statistics on state lab-confirmed H1N1
[Swine Flu cases] prior to the halt of individual testing and
counting in July. The results reveal a pattern that surprised a
number of health care professionals we consulted. The vast majority
of cases were negative for H1N1 as well as seasonal flu, despite the
fact that many states were specifically testing patients deemed to be
most likely to have H1N1 flu, based on symptoms and risk factors,
such as travel to Mexico.”
And the staggering
capper on this tale? Roughly three weeks after Attkisson’s Swine
Flu revelations appeared in print, the CDC, obviously in great
distress over the exposure, decided to double down. The best lie to
tell would be a huge lie.
Here, from a November
12, 2009, WebMD article is the CDC’s response: “Shockingly, 14
million to 34 million U.S. residents — the CDC’s best guess is 22
million — came down with H1N1 swine flu by Oct. 17 [2009].” (“22
million cases of Swine Flu in US,” by Daniel J. DeNoon)
I interviewed Sharyl
Attkisson. She told me the following:
“…we discovered
through our FOI efforts that before the CDC mysteriously stopped
counting Swine Flu cases, they had learned that almost none of the
cases they had counted as Swine Flu was, in fact, Swine Flu or any
sort of flu at all! The interest in the story from one [CBS]
executive was very enthusiastic. He said it was ‘the most original
story’ he’d seen on the whole Swine Flu epidemic. But others [at
CBS] pushed to stop it and, in the end, no [CBS television news]
broadcast wanted to touch it. We aired numerous stories pumping up
the idea of an epidemic, but not the one that would shed original,
new light on all the hype. It [Attkisson’s investigation] was fair,
accurate, legally approved and a heck of a story. With the CDC
keeping the true Swine Flu stats secret, it meant that many in the
public took and gave their children an experimental vaccine that may
not have been necessary.”
In other words, the
whole Swine Flu episode was a dud. A hoax.
It was exposed on the
CBS News website. Beyond that, it never became a big story at CBS or
any other major mainstream outlet in the world. It was squashed.
To receive the full
force of this hoax, you need to understand that so-called epidemics
are very big business. Vaccine business. Pharma business. Government
business.
When those governments
announce an epidemic, the public believes. The belief is on the order
of religious faith. It is also scientific faith. Once announced,
there is no going back. These “epidemics” are, like major banks,
too big to fail.
But Swine Flu did fail.
Right out in the open. On the CBS News website. It was exposed as a
grand hoax.
Realizing what they had
just let happen, CBS dropped the curtain. There would be no
follow-up. The story wouldn’t make it on to the national evening
television broadcast.
And most of the people
who read the story on the CBS website would blink and move on. Their
minds wouldn’t register the implications. Kansas had just
disappeared, but for them it was still there.
That’s how consensus
reality operates. It’s there even when it isn’t. It’s there
even after it’s been axed, sawed, dissolved.
It’s the proverbial
bad penny that keeps coming back. It keeps showing up.
The public is married
to the whole idea of viruses. Viruses are embraced as basic seeds of
medical reality. From those seeds bloom all sorts of unshakable facts
about illness. Virus does this, virus causes that, prevent virus from
taking hold with a shot—news about viruses is as commonplace and
familiar as pots and pans are in kitchens. “Everybody knows about
viruses.”
Of course, everybody
doesn’t know about viruses, but they think they do.
And here is a case,
Swine Flu, where what everybody knew as a fundamental fact of reality
was wrong.
The virus wasn’t
there.
As a researcher once
wrote me, “Pepsi, Coke, McDonald’s, ice cream, viruses. They’re
the pillars, the foundation stones. But you’d be surprised how
often we’re guessing about viruses. We say they’re there, causing
a disease. We give a name to the disease, and the public salutes.
We’re taking a stab in the dark. If we admitted it, our whole
operation would crash…”
You can doubt what the
President is saying. You can doubt the Congress, the FBI, the CIA,
and the IRS. You can doubt all the mega-corporations. You can doubt
Mickey Mouse and the Pope. But when you doubt viruses, you’re
committing heresy, because medical science is a super-religion. Its
basic tenets are “self-evident.” They must be. They have to be.
Especially when they
aren’t.
Jon Rappoport
The author of three
explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and
POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional
seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting
practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion
of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has
worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on
politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin
Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and
Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics,
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