What do you think of the Swine Flu pandemic?

[Celtaur]

The Swine flu is getting a lot of international attention. How does the coverage make you feel? What do you think about it? How are people in your region reacting?

Here is a recent article

[Briony Haldane]

Whenever something like this is featured in the media, I want to get up on a soapbox and ask people to stop and take a breath. The relentless media coverage makes people react in fear, even though it's not reasonable to do so. The more fear we put out there and the stronger our belief in pandemic, the more likely it is to materialize. Let's not give life to this with our thoughts. While we should certainly take sensible precautions, like handwashing and avoiding people who are ill and produce/products made in Mexico, we shouldn't blow this out of proportion. The other thing we can do is to keep ourselves hydrated to keep our personal vibration high. This is helpful at any time and an effective way of avoiding illness.

Please don't use anti-bacterial products to protect yourself against possible swine flu. They are no more effective than regular soap or detergent . However, t hey DO contain triclosan, which kills the algae in the ocean, a far more dire outcome even than pandemic.

[EyeCanBlackStars]

It is distressing because it's obvious to me that someone made this. I know there are times when things naturally happen. But this was a chimeric virus a combination of 3 different animal flu viruses, which is not so common. And it's easy to make these in labs, well it's not easy, but it's easy if you have the resources. I'm sure whoever has invested in pharma or certain related industries(non-mexico tourism too) is going to make a fortune.

I'm just waiting for the day when the anti-fertility virus is released forcing people to pay for costly treatment to have babies, being a very effective birth control. I just have very little faith in these power industries. It's the people's fault, too, because their mentality causes these things to manifest, but it's a shame things have come to this.

[Briony Haldane]

I do share your concern that someone would deliberately engineer the virus or arrange for it to be transmitted only to create and maintain a profit. All I can say, is I wouldn't want their karma. Perhaps we should be praying for them as well as their victims.

[Blank Rune]

The economic situation, this flu, and now the 6.0 earthquake is taking its toll on the citizens of Mexico (especially Mexico city). They are not used to being fearful and are very much so now. Some of the people interviewed see it as signs of the "end times".

May our prayers be with them.


If anyone is engineering these viruses...they will surely need our prayers as well!!!





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[Briony Haldane]

Blank Rune, I agree that many people think it's end times. Now is a wonderful time to be on a spiritual path, because we don't suffer from fear in the same way as those that aren't, or those that are and figure we are about to face the "tribulation". How wonderful to be able to believe that everything is perfect as it is- that things happen FOR us, not TO us

[Blank Rune]

Blank Rune, I agree that many people think it's end times. Now is a wonderful time to be on a spiritual path, because we don't suffer from fear in the same way as those that aren't, or those that are and figure we are about to face the "tribulation". How wonderful to be able to believe that everything is perfect as it is- that things happen FOR us, not TO us

Well said Brio!

I could not of said it any better. I thank God for the peace that rests on us and I pray that others are guided and heed that guidance to the path that leads to it.

I also pray in their most troubled times when God sends His loving, comforting, and healing spirit that they may not only be helped through by it, but realize where it is coming from.

I find myself praying for the callous as well. Those who feel or show no sympathy for those who suffer, who even mock them in their distress. May their callous hearts be circumcised...that they may feel...




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[Briony Haldane]

Blank Rune, I agree that it's essential that we pray for one another and send
energy to those who are afraid and even those who are callous, in these times. Frightened people don't make good decisions and neither do callous ones. While we might feel that there isn't a whole lot that we can do to change things right now [ other than in our own live] we can certainly pray in order to help shift the feelings of fear and helplessness and help de-escalate the whole Apocalypse scenario that many are holding onto.

[Mohandas]

It is distressing because it's obvious to me that someone made this. I know there are times when things naturally happen. But this was a chimeric virus a combination of 3 different animal flu viruses, which is not so common. And it's easy to make these in labs, well it's not easy, but it's easy if you have the resources. I'm sure whoever has invested in pharma or certain related industries(non-mexico tourism too) is going to make a fortune.

I'm just waiting for the day when the anti-fertility virus is released forcing people to pay for costly treatment to have babies, being a very effective birth control. I just have very little faith in these power industries. It's the people's fault, too, because their mentality causes these things to manifest, but it's a shame things have come to this.

I was once on a flight from Geneva to London and was seated beside a rather distinguished looking older gentleman in a suit. We didn't speak at first but finally when the in-flight meal came we both requested a glass of red wine. As we were each about to take a sip from our respective glasses, it simultaniuosly occurred to us to turn to one another and say cheers.

This broke the ice and a very interesting converstion followed. He worked for a big pharmaceutical research company in Switzerland and our conversation turned to various diseases and their possible cures.

I asked him about AIDS and if it was possible that it was a man made virus, part of some conspiracy of population control or something evil like that. He said that he could not say for sure but, lowering his voice to a whisper he begun to speak about another virus which he and his collegues had done research into. The ebola virus.

What he said was truly shocking and he believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt that ebola was in fact an engineered virus, being tested in Africa as a bio-weapon.

The first time there was an outbreak of ebola, they took a sample of the virus and kept it in a sealed laboratory envirnment so that it could not mutate. Now, one of the things they noted about the ebola virus is that it mutates at a near impossible rate, faster than any other virus, faster in fact than any living thing known to man.

So, they kept this original sample in an environment in which it ceased to mutate. The outbreak itself was not necessarily contained but just seemed to dissappear, much to the bewilderment of the scientists who were studying it.

Years later there was a another, more famous outbreak in Zaire and they once again took a sample of the virus. This man told me with a very grim expression that there was no possible way that this could have been a natural virus. In comparing the two samples of this fast mutating virus, the second sample matched the original so closely, with a relatively small number of mutations. He concluded that it could only have been kept in a similar laboratory environment to cease mutation and subsequently reintroduced into the population.

That's pretty scary.

With Love
Mohandas

[Briony Haldane]

Yes, it is really scary..however, apart from acknowledging that, what are our options? What can we do about it? What reign should we allow our fear?