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katysails wrote:
There you go with THE GOVERNMENT crap again...why don't you find yourself a
nice socialistic or communist country to live in where the government is
everything? Got news for you, there are still people here who do not want
all that governmental intervention....the whole flu shot thing is a
construct...they've got you snowed into thinking that it's a necessity of
life...that you will die without it...this is not the 1930's when
malnutrition was rife, when antibiotics barely existed (sulfa was about it)
and where the life expectancy was somewhere around 62. The chance of an
epidemic here is not probably at all. Get over it. You've been
brainwashed.

Katy, you're not thinking clearly. You can rant all you want, but the
flu shot is essential for certain members of our population. What
gov't intervention are you talking about? Allowing an essential
industry to fail that risks the lives of thousands of people? For the
sake of a "market economy?" Seems rather cold-blooded to me. I hope
you're not going to be using your Social Security, taking public
transportation, are ever in need of an emergency room, or don't care
if you're ripped off by your bank. If you do care about any of those
things, in addition to making sure you have running water, sewers that
work, highways that aren't clogged with potholes, you're going to have
some gov't intervention. Of course, I'm betting you have no problem
with gov't intervention with respect to outlawing abortions. It's one
thing not to save the life of a productive member of the society, but
it's quite another to attempt to preserve the life of a non-viable
fetus while endangering the mother.

I hate to tell you but the flu wiped out millions of Americans, and it
will continue to kill thousands needlessly unless we have some gov't
intervention.

I think you need to get a life, get out more often, and stop allowing
yourself to be brainwashed by people who don't give a rat's ass about
anything or anyone besides themselves. If you want to call me a
socialist or a communist, feel free. I care about my fellow human
beings, and I intend to do everything I can to help others, even if
you refuse to because of some misguided notion about "free
enterprise."



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