‘2009 has been a year of endless wars and man made pestilence. And 2010, looks like more of the same. Pandemic
emergencies have been invoked in failing or failed states such as
Mexico last spring, and more recently in Ukraine
(“Ukraine’s Fantom flu”, Foreign Policy, November 25,
2009).
Both states are in
current internal turmoil and are basically being kept afloat thanks to
an IMF loan lifeline, or billions in cash infusions. But these economic
shots in the arms from the IMF medics also seem to be accompanied by
mass scare campaigns fomented from the top and fear mongering
techniques. There is an odd coincidental timing between flu outbreaks
and chronic political- economic pandemonium. Are the authorities
attempting to cow the population into a state of submission?
Or perhaps distract their
citizenry from their dismal daily lives, punctuated by falling
standards of living, corruption, rising crime and increasing
administrative incompetence to deal with these blights? Perhaps this is
just pure conjecture on my part but allow me to surmise this: the H1N1
flu outbreaks seem to be tool to tighten the government’s grip
over its increasingly dissenting populace. This tool seems to be an
effective one.’
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