SARS Quiz: Test Your Level of Intelligence

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> SARS Quiz: Test Your Level of Intelligence

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> By

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> Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.

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> Author of the national bestselling book

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> Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola—Nature, Accident or Intentional?

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> Level 1:

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> It is April, have we not been fools?

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> Last year, didn’t more than 36,000 people die of the flu in the U.S.?

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> Weren’t they, almost all, elderly or very young?

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> Weren’t these victims, almost all, immune compromised?

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> Had not the major source of their weakened immunity been drug side

> effects and vaccine-induced toxicity and autoimmunity?

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> Why was there nearly no mention about this widespread mortality from flu

> in previous years, compared to SARS this year, which to date (April 16,

> 2003) has killed no one in America?

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> Alternatively, with zero deaths in the U.S. from SARS thus far, why has

> so much media attention focused on this newest microscopic menace?

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> Why hasn’t the mainstream media asked these simple questions?

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> Level 2:

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> Why are SARS “cases” and SARS mortality rates grossly overstated and

> mixed-up in the press?

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> For instance, why are “confirmed” and “suspected” SARS cases grouped

> together in most news reports, when the majority of “suspected” “cases”

> turn out to be something other than SARS?

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> Why would public health officials, who know better, go along with the

> false and misleading 4% death rate from SARS errantly established on

> this inappropriate summing of “confirmed” and “suspected” SARS “cases?”

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> Why would epidemiologically trained public health officials completely

> disregard the thousands, if not millions, of other people who got

> SARS—people who never reported their illness and naturally healed

> without quarantine, hospitalization, or expensive drugs?

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> Wouldn’t an honest projection of the SARS mortality rate seem miniscule

> and irrelevant?

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> Wouldn’t that make the economic incentive from SARS seem miniscule and

> irrelevant?

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> Would SARS’s irrelevance help or harm newspaper sales?

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> Would miniscule mortality rates help or harm health officials attempting

> to justify their existence and increase their budgets?

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> Speaking of money, if contraindications and side effects of ribaviron

> abound, and it has never been tested against the SARS-strain of

> coronavirus to begin with, then why has it been recommended and

> prescribed by those claiming “authority” since the beginning of the SARS

> scare?

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> Level 3:

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> Is it true that conservatively 10 percent of Americans are

> psychologically and/or pharmacologically predisposed to developing

> debilitating phobias with potentially deadly social dysfunctions

> resulting from their frights?

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> Is this mentally challenged population placed at highest risk from

> mass-mediated fear campaigns?

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> Is it likely that more of these 27 million people in the U.S. alone have

> suffered horribly from the SARS fright than those who have gotten SARS?

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> Is it likely far more of these people have died from phobia-induced

> avoidance behaviors, like avoiding outside (i.e, social) contacts,

> including life-saving services, in the wake of SARS coverage by the

> media?

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> Don’t public health officials realize this as they “surf the SARS wave

> to international fame?”

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> Likewise, does this SARS fright reflect irresponsible journalism?

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> Level 4:

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> Is there a specialty field of science in public health and journalism

> known as “risk communication?”

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> Does a Google search on the Internet reveal about 2,780,000 “risk

> communication” references with recommendations as to how to communicate

> risks most efficiently without: a) harming the public; b) creating

> phobias, and c) reinforcing irrational fears?

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> Doesn’t every public health official learn about this field of science

> known as “risk communication” during their professional training?

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> Doesn’t risk communication in public health, such as applied in the

> field of AIDS education, seek to reduce irrational fears?

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> Hasn’t every public health professional with media spokesperson

> responsibilities been made keenly aware of the need to communicate

> health risks honestly and appropriately with this being the intended

> outcome?

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> Haven’t experts in behavioral science and public health developed “risk

> communication” protocols to assure the public is able to accurately

> assess risks to their personal health from infectious diseases among

> other threats?

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> Why has the entire field of “risk communication” in public health, along

> with full honest disclosure, been completely neglected in-so-far-as SARS

> is concerned?

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> Level 5: Genius Level

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> If far more than 99.99% of people infected with SARS get well on their

> own, how did they manage to do that without government involvement?

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> If these people’s healthy immune systems are primarily responsible for

> their speedy recoveries, with all the warnings issued regarding SARS,

> why haven’t our officials published a variety of practical immune

> boosting recommendations?

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> Is it true that both fear and stress reduces natural immunity to

> infectious diseases like SARS?

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> Is it true that herbal cures for coronavirus infections were published

> in the scientific literature in 1995?

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> Is it true that government authorities have neglected to mention this

> fact?

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> Logically, then, if government health experts know all of the above, are

> fueling fears while neglecting practical solutions, doesn’t it seem as

> though they are actively increasing public risks and death rates?

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> Given the above, doesn’t “criminal negligence” and “public health

> malpractice” best describe government officials’ actions in response to

> SARS, thus far?

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> Does less than 3% of America’s annual health budget go to prevention?

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> Does a “stitch in time save nine?”

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> “Is there a fox in the henhouse?”

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> Is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. prescribed by doctors

> and hospital staff?

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> Aren’t these the first people you think of seeing when you get sick?

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> If yes, are you mentally ill?

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> Answers: All “Yes” or “No” questions (except for the last two) are

> definitively affirmative. If you got them correct, then there’s hope for

> you. For the other questions, your guess is as good as mine . . . April

> fools.

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> Copyround © 2003, Leonard G. Horowitz

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> The author authorizes reprinting and circulation ad libitum.

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> This article was provided

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> courtesy of Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz

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> See also: http://www.c-cure.com

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> http://www.tetraassoc.com

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> http://www.SARScure.com

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> http://www.SARSscam.com

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> http://www.originofaids.com

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> http://www.deathintheair.com

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> http://www.allaboutsmallpox.com

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> http://www.healingcelebrations.com

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> http://www.americanreddoublecross.com

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> http://www.healthyworlddistributing.com

> http://www.prophecyandpreparedness.com

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