When I first came to Panama I kept reading about Yellow Fever, Malaria and the like. I was advised that unless I intended to hike through the Darien Jungle, the only shots I would need for Boquete were two shots .. of Scotch! Well of the few confirmed cases of Zika here in Panama, guess where they occurred, the indigenous areas of coastal jungle.
I got this note from my friend and fellow blogger in Costa Rica Scott Oliver at WeLoveCostaRica that summed up the hype.
Jeeez! Are You Still A Sucker For Zika in Costa Rica? Please educate yourself!
On Monday, even though President Obama said that: “The good news is this is not like Ebola — people don’t die of Zika; a lot of people get it and don’t even know that they have it,” he has requested more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to fight an ‘outbreak’ of the Zika virus…
Blah! Blah! Blah!
1. Remember how the “whole world” was going to be infected by Ebola?
2. Do you remember in late 2009 when the US Centers for Disease Control estimated there were 22 million cases of Swine Flu in the US?
3. What happened to SARS?
4. And the Bird Flu just flew away, did it?
5. And what happened to the West Nile Virus? It got home-sick, went back to the West Nile and stayed there?
Since the national debt in the United States of America just hit $19 trillion for the first time in history, it seems to me that this is not a sensible use of taxpayers’ money especially when this virus is sooo scary that “a lot of people get it and don’t even know that they have it”.
Forget mainstream news! Go to expert sources for this kind of information and Jon Rappoport (NoMoreFakeNews.com) has investigated government psy-ops and propaganda for 30 years. Jon has written over a dozen brilliantly crafted and well researched articles on the Zika virus.
Factually speaking the odds of a pregnant woman giving birth to a child with microcephaly are actually a zillion times higher in the USA where: “Annually, approximately 25,000 infants in the United States will be diagnosed with microcephaly…” than they are in Costa Rica.
Your chances of drowning or dying in a traffic accident in Costa Rica are probably a zillion times higher than your chances of ever having any serious Zika problems!
I will let Jon Rappoport sum it up sarcastically for you:
“So, all you women who are thinking about having a baby: don’t. Don’t get pregnant. Don’t travel to 22 countries. Believe the authorities. They know what’s best for you. They always do. Surely, there’s a global epidemic underway. Out of nine billion people, 270 in Brazil have microcephaly, and six of those have the virus that could impair your baby. This makes perfect sense. Of course it does. If you have the thinking power of a rock. If you’re committed to a life of abject fear, based on nothing.”