Time For a Rant

Excuse me, rant ahead; proceed at your own discretion. Awfully wicked non-PC comments, gross links.

Our local paper- no great shakes, it is published six days a week but it doesn't even carry AP news because of the cost- ran a story recently on the swine flu shots available. The story ran something like, "Oh, I'm so Scared of the flu, gather the women and children and run for the hills, Oh Goody, the Government is here to save us, that swine flu shot is Dandy."

Okay so far (yawn) typical local story without much thought or insight.The part that made me see red?

"We know it's safe" (referring to the vaccination), said by Health and Human Resources Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Oh please, no vaccine is "safe". Is this safety factor the reason why Baxter Labs, maker of this vaccine, asked for and received complete waiver of liability? This statement is going to come back and haunt Ms. Sebelius. Her next public quote on this topic will be something like, "Of course, 'safety' is a relative term". Our proud government said something similar in a 1970's Sixty Minutes interview after Guillam-Barr syndrome appeared in some flu shot recipients. Words are cheap. Spread some around. Um, Kathleen, my garden could sure use a load of horse manure.

I have actually thought about writing an Opinion column in that same paper, listing some of the atrocious "adjuvants" in the vaccine such as formaldeyde, thimerosol, and a squalene level which is a million times higher than the same squalene adjuvant which has damaged, maimed, and killed 160,000 veterans of the Gulf War. Yes, the latest research has unearthed some interesting news and government admissions ("Rats! Caught!") about Gulf War Syndrome...don't believe the Wikipedia entry, please do your own search at these links if you need some evidence. The form of the vaccine which does not contain adjuvants, the aerosol mist, contains live flu virus. In my opinion, never a good thing.

So, I had thought about writing that column. I decided not to. Every nation which has introduced swine flu vaccines has had a 38% refusal rate (except China; refusal of government programs there qualifies a person for organ donation). That part of the population is wary, or does the research, easily available on the Internet, about health concerns around this flu. The fact is, this flu so far has been far less of a killer than the regular flu. The people with good instincts and/or intelligence are self-selecting against this vaccine. I like that, actually.

You see, I'm a gardener. Every planting must be thinned so that the strongest survive. Infected and non-producing plants are yanked out matter-of-factly. I select the best seeds to reproduce and do not replant the weak and prone to disease. Call me wicked, I don't mind, but if the careless and fearful people are self-selecting themselves to be culled, that is a choice made of their own free will.
Now if I can only convince my garden to self-select....Kathleen, over here for more of that horse manure.