President Obama is asking congress for $1.5 billion to combat swine flu.

Excuse me, but what’s the damn panic all about? Swine flu is not a “pandemic” with 150 dead world wide. Tuberculosis kills 1.6 million a year and we don’t see a bloody panic over it.

Not only is this an artificially created panic, but it’s not the first time we’ve gone through these scare tactics.

This video shows a couple of commercials run by the government in 1976.

Note that the “outbreak” which prompted the Ford administration scare, infected 200 and killed one in Fort Dix, New Jersey.

The CDC is simply cranking up the fear factor on this one.

Addendum, 2009-05-02: according to this article from the Associated Press, “Worldwide, the total confirmed cases numbered more than 650, although officials believe there are many more.”

650 cases of swine flu, out of 6.5 billion people is a pandemic? 1/10,000,000 of the world population is a pandemic? You have got to be kidding me!

Do any of these swine  fools in the press, the WHO or the CDC even know what the word “pandemic” means? They’re simply repeating a buzz word because it sounds scary and the more fear they can crank up, the more control the government can impose.

Bear in mind the following when you’re dealing with a member of the Terrified of Their Own Shadow crowd:

“… most U.S. cases have been relatively mild and have not required a doctor’s visit…”

Some “killer disease” this is…