KittenKoder
Senior Member
Now you just gave me one.... Careful now, or this will be moved to "Conspiracy Theories".... LOL
What actually happens, with the "normal" flu vaccine, is that it isn't a money-maker for the manufacturers, and they really don't want to produce it, but they aren't given a choice. Now a few years back, when Chiron fucked up the vaccines, there was a severe supply and demand problem which drove up the cost from the other manufacturers as they scrambled to try to make up for the shortage.
You can only make so much flu vaccine from the available eggs, which is what determines/fixes the price. Not saying that drug manufacturers don't screw the public, but they do it with their new products -- the "new and improved" drugs that are supposedly so much better than the older, "tried and true" ones. Hypertension meds are the perfect example.
The difference between this is that it's based on a very common trait, greed. A "conspiracy theory" has no winners, this one there is, the drug companies. They do make a profit off all flu vaccines, and why wouldn't they collaborate to help boost their market? It's easy for them to do since 99% of the population knows so little about it, and no matter how much you tell them most people don't want to learn anything about it. They would rather just do as they are told and not think about it. If people knew more about these viruses (or about the medical industry as a whole) they'd be outraged at how much we have been conned by it. The "mistakes" can be done on purpose, since there is no way for people to really look into it such cons are difficult to spot. Just because it's a major company doesn't make it less likely to con people, on the contrary, the more they can make you think you need their products the more often they will con you.
Being outraged that you have been conned is evidence that you are relying to much on others.
Thus why I am not outraged ... however informing people that there might be more to what they are being fed can be it's own reward, kind of like helping a victim of a crime.