Originally posted by jgiant
Sorry for the double post. But would you guys be willing to believe that the swine flu was created in a lab just to get money into the pharmacudical industry. That could also be a possiblity. Or is that a conspiracy theory too. In all honesty I don't know, and you guys don't know.
I'm willing to accept that pharmaceutical companies are exploiting the situation by grossly overstating the virus's potential danger in order to sell more Tamiflu and also to create a demand for a vaccine that some GP's are already stating is completely unneccessary. Unfortunately that's no different from any other commercial enterprise. Creating demand where there is none. This is obviously more unethical given it's about creating a demand by inciting fear of ill health.
As for creating it in the lab? No...The H1N1 virus has been around far longer than our ability to manipulate genes or alter the genetic code of viruses.
As for the other frankly ridiculous idea that the vaccine will kill millions. What utter and complete nonsense. People argue this all the time in relation to AIDS and HIV medication in Africa. Saying that it's killing people...Yes they're right to say it's killing people. What they neglect to mention, though is that it's killing people because the people who are supposed to getting the medication are selling it on illegally because it can get people high. Killing both themselves (because they're not getting the medication they need) and killing the people who are abusing the drugs (because it causes massive complications will non comprimised immune systems.)