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Swine Flu Shots: Learning From History

I was in high school in 1976, during the last swine flu panic. The vaccination program was a fiasco. (President Ford at least practiced what he preached, taking a shot himself at a public ceremony.) The (London) Daily Mail reports that the British (whose health care system we’re supposed to admire) believe that the vaccine is linked to a rare neurological disorder. They also report that the vaccine accounted for more deaths than did the swine flu, last time around. That is not to say that this is a repeat of what happened in 1976, only that extreme caution should be used before encouraging the public to accept the vaccine, and its’ use should not be mandatory. (I won’t take a shot even if it means losing my job. No one tells me what goes into my body, or the bodies of my children.)

Governments are prone to their own contagious disease – Public Policy Panic Disorder. It is up to us to administer the corrective, by doing all we can to ensure that due deliberation occurs, and that the risks are fully understood and explained, before embarking on a vaccination program. Finally, ‘research’ from paid sources or from drug makers should be considered suspect unless independently verified. There is a Pharma-Industrial-Complex every bit as much as there is President Eisenhower’s more famous Military-Industrial- Complex. Beware them.