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SARS AND THE
NUMBERS GAME

by Jon Rappoport
May 29th 2003

I hope my friends in Canada take this one to heart.

First, we have a piece posted at CBC online, in which nurses in the Toronto area are making angry remarks about the way SARS stats are being tallied---as if the case numbers are being undercounted.

But then a nurse named Brenda Hallihan blows the real whistle. The whole situation is very confused, she says. No one really knows what he’s doing. The definition of SARS has been changed.

Changed how?

Apparently in the following way, according to Hallihan: “What we’re being told is people that come in [to hospitals] with respiratory symptoms with temperature…are being treated as a probable [SARS] case.”

Boom.

Just as I said from the beginning of this whole mess, the list of vague symptoms being called SARS opened the door to all sorts of fraud. “Oh, he’s coughing and he has a temperature. SARS.”

Probable SARS. Suspected SARS. Maybe SARS.

Which leads to overcounting, not undercounting.

Now, we have a missive from the PR Newswire, a release from a group called TARS (Truth About Reporting of SARS). TARS is directly accusing WHO of compiling misleading stats on case numbers---“resulting in unwarranted panic and significant economic loss.”

Can you say court action? Lawsuit? Recovery of lost income stemming from WHO fraud? Corporations lowering the boom on WHO?

TARS contends that WHO keeps spewing out figures for three categories: new cases, cumulative cases (since the beginning), and deaths. Naturally, these categories will increase or give the appearance of an increase right up until the moment when WHO says SARS is all over.

As in, “Well, the death toll is rising. Two weeks ago we had X number of total deaths, and now we have X plus 35.”

As in, “Well, the total number of SARS cases is on the rise. Last week there were X number of cases, and this week there are X plus 40.”

Get it? How could this method of reporting stats do anything but engender panic? The misleading appearance is that two very important stats are on the rise. Well, BY DEFINITION, they would be. How could they not be?

As for the stats of new cases, if you want to cause fear, you just keep announcing new cases every time they are diagnosed anywhere in the world. Monday: “14 new cases in Taiwan.” Tuesday: “6 new cases in Toronto.”

TARS suggests a more sane approach to the numbers, as of May 28:

“Worldwide: 8,240 cumulative cases [since the beginning]; 2,604 active cases, a drop of 30% from the 5/12 peak of 3,700 active cases.”

An active case would be one which is current, not cured. So the trend there is down. Not up.

TARS does the same kind of breakdown for China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In each instance, one can see that the active cases are on a steep downward trend.

Here is a very interesting quote from the TARS Director: “…WHO’s SARS-reporting methodology could be viewed as highly suspect by some, especially considering that ]WHO is] requiring $200 million from businesses and governments. It’s ironic that those from whom they are seeking funds are the very ones that have been most damaged by the SARS panic.”

Huh?

Businesses are being extorted by WHO?

Businesses are at the end of WHO’s gun?

Businesses are being fed the not-so-subliminal message that, unless they fork over $$ to WHO, they could feel the wrath of more travel advisories and quarantines?

Is this not like a patient being told by a doctor that he has to pay an upfront fee just to get into the office---after which he will pay for diagnosis and treatment? And if he refuses to pay the entrance $$, there is no telling what diagnosis he will be slapped with?

Now, understand that the basic truth remains unchanged: SARS is a fake disease from top to bottom. The vaunted coronavirus has never been established as the cause of anything. Older disease---regular pneumonias, flu, even TB, all sorts of ordinary lung infections---is being arbitrarily and randomly imported over into a new category. SARS.

But on top of that fraud, we also have the panic-engendering fraud involved in the way case numbers are being reported.

I hope this helps Toronto and all the other hot spots where businesses are being shelled by WHO. Get busy. Tune up your legal staffs. Make your moves. Don’t be shy. This is the moment.

I warn you. WHO will play this very cleverly. They will claim they have been reporting all the panic-relieving downward trends. They will point to various articles in the press, and they will cite their own quotes. But WHO deals from two decks at once. They report optimistically and pessimistically. They do both. That’s their style. Nail them.

And make sure you understand that one or two maybe-probable-suspected cases do not constitute grounds for thousands of people being quarantined. That is sheer rubbish.

You’ll be able to dig up instances, in past years, where there were all sorts of people with traditional pneumonias and heavy flu in hospitals---and nothing was done. No space suits, no quarantines, no travel advisories, no panic. No nothing.

Bust WHO.

And find those instances in which WHO has been paid $$ by companies. When you do, send me the numbers and I’ll print them.

Copyright © Jon Rapport, 2003
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