America's Biggest Threat: The Chicken?

Only one out of 150 people will get some kind of immunization against the possibility of a flu pandemic this winter!.

There will not be enough vaccine available to innoculate those most in need, the old and the elderly.

Who among us will qualify to receive this precious guarantee of life? Will it be the sick? Will it be the needy? Will it be the elderly?

Actually, 2 million doses accounts for about a little more than one-half of one percent of the population or 0.66%. This contrasts with enough vaccines purchased in advance by other countries to protect between 20 and 40% of their populations. That means the richest superpower in the history of the world will not be able to protect 99% plus of its population against a disease we have known about for more than eighty five years... Okay, that's an oversimplification. Admittedly, the flu has the capacity to mutate but at the very least, we should have been on top of the problem so that we were not the last country to respond and certainly the only major power to consider protecting so few of its citizens.

Again, back to the question: If we cannot protect more than ninety nine percent of the population, who will we protect?

Okay, let's approach this from a different direction: Do you think that the high ranking Republicans in Congress, at the State level, at the machine level and in Cabinet posts and the inner circle will not each receive a dosage? If so, I have a nice bridge I would like to sell you!....

What's the next level down: key party functionaries?
friends who control the lobbies? The NRA's big guns? Leaders of the military industrial complex in Dallas to Pennsecola? State officials in red states?

Hey, hold up guys, I think we've already blown it!....Remember, we're not only innoculating the members but their wives and families and who knows where the circle ends... That's it!

Would you or anyone else be surprised if that's the way it happened? Why? What is it about how this government acts that would convince you that they would become altruistic and concerned about the plight of others?

. Forget it, bro, it just won't happen....

So, better stock up on the over the counter stuff, buy lot's of OJ and find yourself a good cave somewhere far away from sneezes and coughs...Because this year promises to be a doozy in more ways than one...

And stay away from any chicken with a runny nose...



The Armchair Curmudgeon

les Aaron

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