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Aspirin kills 400% more people than H1N1 swine flu

Friday, November 20, 2009

by Mike , the Health Ranger

Editor of NaturalNews.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/027548_swine_flu_vaccines_death_risk.html

(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.

About the author: Mike is a natural health researcher and author with

a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He is a

prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports

and consumer guides, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the

world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his

articles. is an honest, independent

journalist and accepts no money or

commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he

promotes. In 2007, launched EcoLEDs, a

manufacturer of mercury-free,

energy-efficient LED lighting products that save electricity and help

prevent global warming. He's also a successful software entrepreneur, having

founded a well known email marketing software company whose technology

currently powers the NaturalNews email newsletters. volunteers his

time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness

Center, a

501©3 non-profit organization, and pursues hobbies such as Pilates,

Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. Known on the 'net

as 'the Health Ranger,' shares his

ethics, mission statements and

personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org

[Guest guest]

,

It is a good exercise to put death statistics in terms that people can

understand. One of the most shocking statistics is the number of deaths

attributable to smoking.

The CDC estimates that smoking kills over 440,000 Americans per year.[1] That

is the equivalent of two jumbo jet crashes EVERY DAY with no survivors.

I have a bar chart about this in my " stop smoking " web page:

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/health/stop-smoking.html

Tony

[1] Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and

Productivity Losses --- United States, 2000--2004

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5745a3.htm

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> More interesting information on preventable causes of death.

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> Aspirin kills 400% more people than H1N1 swine flu

> Friday, November 20, 2009

> by Mike , the Health Ranger

> Editor of NaturalNews.com

> <http://www.naturalnews.com/027548_swine_flu_vaccines_death_risk.html>

> http://www.naturalnews.com/027548_swine_flu_vaccines_death_risk.html

>

> (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.

>

> About the author: Mike is a natural health researcher and author with

> a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He is a

> prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports

>

> and consumer guides, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the

> world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his

> articles. is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or

>

> commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he

> promotes. In 2007, launched EcoLEDs, a manufacturer of mercury-free,

> energy-efficient LED lighting products that save electricity and help

> prevent global warming. He's also a successful software entrepreneur, having

>

> founded a well known email marketing software company whose technology

> currently powers the NaturalNews email newsletters. volunteers his

> time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a

> 501©3 non-profit organization, and pursues hobbies such as Pilates,

> Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. Known on the 'net

> as 'the Health Ranger,' shares his ethics, mission statements and

> personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org

>

[Guest guest]

Tony,

I certainly identify with your smoking death comparison and

jumbo jet crashes because I fly one for a living. Pilots have had a

smoke-free cockpit now for about fifteen years. I remember the battle it

took to get it because most WWII pilots were heavy smokers.