Swine Flu - Are You Getting the Jab?

I'm not. Not convinced it's anything more to worry about than ordinary flu. I don't read those fearmongering bullshit 'newspapers'. A very informative article in New Scientist a few months ago told me all I feel I need to know about the difference between H1N1 'Swine' Flu, HN51 'Bird' Flu and all the rest of it.

Conspiracy theories abound about how it's a biological weapon sure to spell the end of the human race... we'll see, this winter. There will be flu-related fatalities somewhere around the world, but no more than usual.

And no, I don't subscribe to the RFID verichip paranoia. I DO believe the Murdoch media are especially pushing paedophilia as a moral panic in order to usher in the idea of microchipping our kids, an agenda of which the high-profile Madeleine McCann disappearance in Portugal is a part... but rfid through this vaccine? No. That's silly.

I think the concept of inserting verichips into people *for control* is an idea that comes from The Christian Bible, and the 'mark of the beast' story. A chip designed to monitor financial transactions in a cashless society... I can see it as a Sci-Fi movie, but not as a reality. I don't think much at all about organised religion or supernatural beliefs, I think they're mostly quite silly as well.

I don't usually turn to Big Pharma for my remedies anyway. I'm not known to take aspirin for a headache or things like that. It's not natural. I'd rather drink water and eat a fry-up for a hangover on a Sunday morning. Guinea-pig for some new vaccine that's shrouded in controversy anyway, even if only from the lunatic fringe? No thanks.

There's been talk of making it compulsory. I don't see how you can enforce that... jabbing me against my will is assault. I'll resist any attempt to do so with violence, I'd imagine.

Are you getting your jab when the time comes?