How to make a pandemic go away
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The dog ate my H1N1 shot.
Or my homework. Or whatever else needs to disappear quickly and quietly.
For the better part of a year, we’ve been told by government and medical authorities that the H1N1 flu is reaching pandemic proportions and that vaccine manufacturers have been asked to increase their output.
Advocacy groups of every sort have been telling their members to get vaccinated in order to stop the spread!
It’s more than likely that the large companies making the H1N1 vaccine have contributed to the frenzy - their stocks are all shooting through the roof at the moment. Although we may get a free shot, our government still has to pay for the huge stockpile of vaccine they’ve ordered.
And now that we’ve all been primed to demand this latest designer drug, our public clinics run dry (although the private clinics and associations that cater to people who are more important than you and I are still in business).
Suddenly, months of pandemic news have been vigorously swept under the carpet in the space of a few days and those same government and medical authorities are saying the H1N1 is no worse than any other flu and that darn media has hyped it all out of proportion again.
What the heck, we have broad shoulders and lots of practice in getting blamed for political mistakes. We also get broadsided by entertainment media masquerading as news media and companies delivering their own biased “press releases” straight to the public disguised as news.
Our first clue should have been the fervor with which the government was trying to convince us all that this was our only protection against the next Great Plague to decimate humankind.
Looks like it’s back to washing our hands and sneezing into a hanky in order to stay healthy.
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