It's just a flu and it's just a vaccine.

Just to be clear, I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person and, as I spend a good deal of time with my husband the communist and my parents, the super-liberal and the skeptic, I am also especially well disposed to a great deal of distrust for anyone who stands to make money from a negative situation. All of this considered, I would love to believe that the H1N1 vaccine is some international conspiratorial plot to either a) fill tax paying citizens with mercury and poisonous neurotoxins or b) turn out the near-empty pockets of a world economy choked by recession for those last few coins and some lint. But no matter what I read or hear, I just can’t make the leap.

I read the newspaper and I watch the news, and just like most other Canadians with an eye on current events, I noticed the sudden fervour for the H1N1 vaccine and the backlash of fear of the flu and the vaccine that followed. I joined in for just a few days before I heard from a friend of a friend that their sister had H1N1. “Oh my god! Is she okay?” My eyes wide with concern, I feared the worse. “She’s fine. She doesn’t have it anymore,” she said with a careless smile and returned her attention to whatever task had occupied it before. It was amazing, she was talking about this devastating pandemic like it was just a regular flu. That’s when it hit me. Maybe this is just a regular flu. Maybe it’s just a new, regular flu. So maybe, just maybe, this vaccine is a just a new, regular vaccine.

It’s true that people are dying from the swine flu here in Canada, people are dying in our neighbour to the south, people are dying across the pond. With this article I don’t intend to minimize those losses in anyway and I don’t wish to offend. Unfortunately, the fact is deaths like this happen every year. Vaccines like this are made every year. This year, the same as every other, there is not a great number of deaths or even negative side effects associated with the vaccine.

I would like to take a moment to visit the suggestion that pharmaceutical companies, in conjunction with the governments, are purposely injecting people with dangerous neurotoxins, or some other kind of virus with the shared aim of world domination in order to facilitate the indoctrination of a new world order. As exciting as the theory is (I’m sure some day yet another science fiction writer will latch onto it) it just doesn’t make a great deal of sense when considered alongside the facts. If our government, along with others in the western world, were trying to kill or harm us for the purpose of control, what kind of strategy would it be to target the elderly, small children and pregnant women? Not only are these groups considered at the highest risk they are also the least threatening groups on the planet! If a new world order was worried about resistance I would think that perhaps they would target those who actually have the power to resist them (i.e. 20-45 year old strong, healthy and perhaps even wealthy folks – but that’s just my opinion).

I would also like to attempt to relax the anxiety of parents everywhere when it comes to the suggestion of an autism-inducing shot. I would like to attempt to do this by suggesting, as many have before, that correlation means only coincidence, not cause. This is something my chemistry teacher reminded me of constantly in high school, and it came to mind while reading reports of autism symptoms showing themselves in children who had recently been vaccinated against the H1N1 virus. It seems to me that this is a clear case of coincidence as autism symptoms have long been known to show themselves at the same time when young children are receiving standard vaccinations.

While I am a fan of a good conspiracy theory, I don’t feel very good about fear-mongering. I don’t think either the H1N1 virus or the vaccine that followed are deserving of the attention that they have garnered. Stay away from sick people, stay home if you are sick, wash your hands often, get the vaccine if you are in a high-risk category (don’t worry no one is targeting you as a threat to the new world order) and together we can weather the storm like the sensible people that I know we can be.

And for pete’s sake don’t order the ultraviolet light, the special weed, or the electronic cigarettes that promise to rid you of your symptoms.

Thanks for the inspiration J & T!

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