Expert Caution

November 26, 2001

Today's Golden Oldie was published in 2001 ...twelve years before the international team of Islamic Jihadis hit the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, killing, torturing, maiming, terrorizing, and murdering in the name of Islam.
and the West still attempts to deny that there is a world wide Islamist War to Conquer the World.

Flu Vaccine Fears

Sometimes I long for the "good old days", when I was a kid. (In the long-ago time). Back then we thought that Medical Doctors were scientists and mini-gods. We trusted them.

Slang for something that was good for you was "just what the doctor ordered".

These days, American TV ads for the latest drug carry a fast-talking list of the unfortunate but possible side-effects of the stuff that they want you to get from your doctor. So the ad sells us the benefits and also warns us about the side-effects.

If it's up to us to decide what we want, and we don't know enough to make a rational decision, then it's no wonder that there's fear in every option.

Including the taking or shunning of the Swine Flu vaccine.

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The last story I heard on the TV news in America was that the U.S. government was going to give the vaccine to the "detainees" at Guantanamo Bay. I'm sure that if I were one of those Gitmo prisoners I'd choose shunning rather than taking.