Kissy, kissy!
While searching online for useful “specialist” photographs for use on this blog, I came across this image, which I remembered from the great swine flu hysteria. And it made me wonder, what happened to the great apocalyptic catastrophe that we were promised would befall us?
Did everybody have their “jabs”? I know I didn’t. I decided I wasn’t going to, even before we discovered that the jabs were useless against this particular strain of flu. And certainly long before we discovered that actually, the stockpiles of flu jabs were about to go off and leave one or other of Labour’s big pharma sponsors with a large inventory write-off headache.
And once these rumours started to circulate, isn’t it strange the whole crisis suddenly evaporated into thin air?
I wonder if this slightly more sensible approach to being caught out was because it was one private company caught at it. And that would explain why “catastrophic climate change” hasn’t folded its tent and stolen into the night … governments are involved.
TJW is an itinerant blogger who lives in East Angular. He grew up as a fascist, mellowed into a Tory and was converted to anarchism in his middle age by the Devil's Kitchen.
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Not a huge fan of hypodermic deposits in my body, (body is a temple and all that) but especially ones that are being advertised and sold by a government I do not trust. At the time of the swine flu hysteria, you must remember it when someone even so much as cleared their throat on the tube everyone went diving for cover in the opposite end of the carriage, I was very much of the opinion that if the government is involved and telling us that it
There was a press release on the news distribution services about this yesterday.
In short – no break clause in the contract with GSK means we’ve been stung for tens of millions of doses we didn’t need to buy.
Our fine government is “saving” so much money we will shortly be able to pay off the National Debt.
How lucky we are to have such a sensible government.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQSz3lKBTY
It’s as well to consider all sides of the argument…
Well, at least someone did well out of it – the company who got the multi-million pound contract from the Government to produce the vaccine.
I’m still waiting to have me skin stripped off by the acid rain.
“Climate disruption” is struggling to it’s feet again after what most thought was a knock out blow. Too much money and political support involved for it not to.
I have paracetamol for severest of morning-afters, piriton for wasp allergy, and TCP for everything else.
If I know I’ve got septicemia I get antibiotics, and it has to be serious.
I am of the age where several of my friends are thalidomide victims and that is fucked-up. I trust no-one. My kids didn’t have the MMR and I suspect Prince Charles’ didn’t either.
Why would anyone in their right mind trust a government who is funded (and they all are) by drug pushers such as GSK and MSD to tell them what to ingest into their bodies, FFS?
TLA.
Talking of jabs as Uncle Marvo mentioned it, how many jabs or innoculations do babies have these days ?
Its about 30 isn’t it, correct me if I’m wrong.
Alan said:
“In short
That nice Mr H L Mencken was right when he wrote: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
And he made that observation many a long year ago which just goes to prove you can always tell when a politician is lying – his lips move!