Bubonic Plague absolutley ravaged Europe, killed over half the population. I don't know a huge amount about it but it seems likely some ethnic groups would have been eradicated by that.

I have written my paper about that subject and you're well... wrong. First of all, it isn't even clear if it was the bubonic plague and second of all it's not entirely known how many people died of it, estimates range all over the place(it was however a pretty big number). No ethnic groups that we know of disappeared. 

I'm sorry, did you just say

A. Extremely high damages means the whole of the human race? 

B. It wouldn't be a disaster if 100 million people died because we could replace them?

Extremely high damages with is a case where a disease would kill millions; the whole human race would be another level altogether (catastrophic). Not one person in this thread has claimed that Swine flu will wipe out the human race, but many have acknowledged that it poses a risk of death to millions.

http://www.youtube.com/user/NikeGolf  First one to pop up.  It is pretty controversial.

30,000 cases? Where on Earth did you get that BS figure? The WHO seem to think the figure is 600,000+ (source), and these are the people who know. And as established, diseases that we have no natural immunity increases exponentially. This means that one month it can be 600,000, the next month it could be a billion under the right conditions.

30,000 cases is when the WHO claimed it to be a pandemic.  Check your own freakin source for the info on that one.

Also, are you not listening to what we are saying about deaths? We are not saying that the flu will kill you, but we are saying it spreads like wildfire, much much faster than a regular flu because we have no natural immunity. If it mutated (which viruses like to do, a lot) to a virus that could kill, then the new deadly virus will claim millions upon millions of lives. (So you can't use current death figures, they are unimportant; what is important is the infection rate)

I still don't see why you would want so many people to take vaccines of a non-lethal virus then.  If it mutated, the current vaccine you already took wouldn't be any more affective than no vaccine in most cases.  So once again, the government and media were simply trying to get us to believe it already was some super violent strand that killed lots of people and the vaccine was our only hope.  If it mutates, we are all screwed anyways.

Even if the chances of this happening are low, the damage would be extremely high should it happen.

Also, vaccines work. You had to go all the way back to the Guillain-barre sydrome from 1976 vaccines to find a case where they didn't work in a significant way. The latest vaccines worked, the problems in 1976 are not really an issue in the latest pandemic vaccines. I quote...

Actually, even today the vaccines cause permanent handicaps and stuff.  Even the normal season flu vaccines cause irreparable damage in some people.  Vaccines are not guaranteed safe.  They never are.  Not to mention seasonal vaccines are mere guesses to which strand will be dominant this season.  I don't know about you but I don't feel like injecting myself with a "guess".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URHhyP4lmQ4

"There has been in particular a lot of concern about Guillain-Barre syndrome because of the incidences during the swine flu vaccination campaigns in 1976 in the US. To date, less than a dozen suspected cases of Guillain-Barre have been reported following vaccination. Only a few of these Guillain-Barre cases may be linked to the pandemic vaccine. Illness has been transient and patients have recovered."

Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, Director, Initiative for Vaccine Research Source

I guess when I hear the word pandemic, as well as the general public, we assume it is something serious, not something that has some slight chance of being serious.  And what is the point of taking a vaccine for a non-lethal strain if there was to be a mutated strain far more severe?  Only a vaccine for the mutated strain would be any help.

Oh and still 600,000 cases as of today worldwide would still only be .01% and I still don't see how that meets a large portion of the population in order to be named a pandemic in the first place.  Just face it, the government and the pharmaceutical companies just wanted some easy money, and they also knew creating a panic would lead to an economic boost as people would rush stores and things to buy supplies.

I guess when I hear the word pandemic, as well as the general public, we assume it is something serious, not something that has some slight chance of being serious.  And what is the point of taking a vaccine for a non-lethal strain if there was to be a mutated strain far more severe?  Only a vaccine for the mutated strain would be any help.

I've already explained why the vaccine for the current strain was needed in the last section. I refer you back to that.

Oh and still 600,000 cases as of today worldwide would still only be .01% and I still don't see how that meets a large portion of the population in order to be named a pandemic in the first place.  Just face it, the government and the pharmaceutical companies just wanted some easy money, and they also knew creating a panic would lead to an economic boost as people would rush stores and things to buy supplies.

Only 600,000? You still don't understand what the situation was do you? 600,000 today, but with no natural immunity in humans worldwide, 600,000 today would become 600 million in a matter of weeks. I'll say it again, it spreads like wildfire. Honestly, anyone who has read around the subject outside of newspapers and blogs for five minutes would understand the severity of the situation.

It wasn't just some government conspiracy either, they did not want you to rush to stores to buy supplies. My country gave vaccines for swine flu out for free, my country gave advice over the phone to hundreds of thousands of people for free, my country saw thousands upon thousands of people in clinics for free. Most governments did the same. Most governments lost millions trying to prevent swine flu.

There was no room to make profit from swine flu. Such a conspiracy is ludicrous.