Swine flu virus an engineered pandemic?

Stupid conspiracy shit, get off my HN.

Snippets from the article:

"My guess is that you can expect to see a lot of panic over this issue in the near future. But the key is to remain calm -- this isn't the first time the public has been warned about swine flu. The last time was in 1976, right before I entered medical school and I remember it very clearly. It resulted in the massive swine flu vaccine campaign.

"Within a few months, claims totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from the vaccine. The vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths.

"However, several hundred people developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome after they were injected with the swine flu vaccine. Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics.

"And the swine flu pandemic itself? It never materialized."

"More People Died From the [1976] Swine Flu Vaccine than Swine Flu!"

"Personally, I am highly skeptical. It simply doesn't add up to a real pandemic.

"But it does raise serious questions about where this brand new, never before seen [swine flu] virus came from, especially since it cannot be contracted from eating pork products, and has never before been seen in pigs, and contains traits from the bird flu -- and which, so far, only seems to respond to Tamiflu. Are we just that lucky, or... what?"

"Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?

"Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don't have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt."