2025-07-06
On the basis that at some point in the future we may all "go down with a bug", we are obviously all "pre-sick" and thus potential targets for medical intervention.
And the obvious intervention is the Vaccine - something that is claimed to ward off the incoming peril and prevent its manifestation (at least until it is shown to do no such thing - oh wait - they changed the definition ... ).
This is highly convenient for the purveyors of vaccines, because
(a) the market is now immeasurably larger than previously as it includes potentially the whole healthy population, rather than merely the small minority that are actually sick
(b) nobody can challenge their claims unless they take the vaccine and then go down with the target sickness (or indeed anything else, when their misfortune will be ruled "anecdotal" and therefore worthless, and they may be sufficiently incapacitated that they are unable to sustain the arduous legal challenge required to obtain what passes for compensation from the government).
For those who would have survived without the intervention, there is no way of knowing whether the targetted sickness would be avoided due to the inherent health of the individual's immune system, or the benefit conferred by the intervention. This is called a "known unknown".
Nevertheless, just to be sure that the population benefits from these wonderful pre-emptive innovations, governments step in
(c) to indemnify vaccine purveyors from being sued for any ill-health caused (where is the logic in that if the presumption is that the intervention ensures good health? But who cares about logic anyway?)
(d) to pay for these pre-emptive interventions for everybody through taxation (thus eliminating any possibility that the target market might unaccountably decide not to buy into such pre-emptive interventions on grounds of cost).
As a business model, it's clearly unbeatable. Guaranteed customers, no risk, taxation-funded sales force, advertising thrown in. What's not to like?
As a healthcare model supported by the government's independent regulators, it is also clearly unbeatable.
Let the cash roll in!
Let the wonder of Science be for ever celebrated!
Floreat Big Pharma! Floreat Big Government!
Floreat the WHO and the new Pandemic Agreement!
Even so, as a sickness pre-emption, somehow there is now a die-hard segment of the population that remains unconvinced (but they are pitifully few, obviously mad, and should be coerced into submission for the safety of the many who did take the pre-emptive intervention, lest these latter should go down with the sickness that was pre-empted by the pre-emptive intervention that they so wisely took).
Do try to keep up.
