A couple of chicken farmers contracted Bird Flu from their chickens. Neither one was actually sick, beyond a short-lived case of pink eye, but that isn’t stopping the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from leaping forward with a plan to produce 4.8 million doses of H5N1 avian influenza vaccine and Protect Americans. Hooray, another fucking vaccine for us.
There is no actual Bird Flu epidemic or crisis, but the media keeps telling us that Bird Flu Is Coming, Bird Flu Is Coming, and now that a couple of farmers have had mild symptoms of it, the rush is on to make a supply of vaccines whether we need them or not.
After all, you just can’t let a good crisis, even a fake one, go to waste.