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Conspiracy theories from http:\/\/xkcd.com\/258\/<\/p><\/div>\n

In the spirit of this xkcd<\/a><\/strong> comic, I’d like to file a bug report on that section of the British public that Had its Say<\/a> to the BBC on the swine flu epidemic.<\/p>\n

You could basically construct almost any one of these farts-in-email format by perming any 3 items from the following list:<\/p>\n

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It was deliberately created in a military lab to cull the world’s population<\/li>\n
It is a just media hype to sell papers<\/li>\n
It is just a pharmaceutical industry hype to sell tamiflu<\/li>\n
It is an imaginary disease dreamt up by the same media liberals who insist that climate change is a real danger.<\/li>\n
Treatment is a waste of their precious public money<\/li>\n
It’s just “flu” and, therefore, completely insignificant<\/li>\n
It is completely out of control. (It’s actually possible to find this idea in the same email as the idea above)<\/em><\/li>\n
I demand immediate access to the (so far purely conceptual) <\/em>vaccination<\/li>\n
The (so far purely conceptual) <\/em>vaccination is poisonous and I refuse to take it.<\/li>\n
The government has invented the epidemic to distract us from….<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This example is a representative classic, in its mixture of selfishness, poor grasp of the English language and anti-labour government ranting.<\/p>\n
I suppose we the Tax payer will be paying for the expensive drugs, the additional medical staff and rubbish propoganda material published by good old Gordo and his quango’s<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hmm, these HYS-armchair-generals-turned-medical-experts make me feel pig sick. Even if I didn’t have swine flu, which I apparently do.<\/p>\n
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