Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 28, 2009

Thirty-three years ago, the federal government predicted that an outbreak of swine flu would kill as many as a million Americans. The administration of President Gerald Ford decided to carry out a crash program to inoculate the public.

Huge sums were appropriated to create and distribute a vaccine.
Panic-laden public service announcements were produced demanding that Americans line up for vaccinations.

The epidemic never materialized. Although drug companies eagerly took subsidies to produce the vaccine, the public refused to cooperate with the program. This made little difference, since the 1976 flu season was the mildest on record. Nearly all of the flu-related deaths that year came from adverse reactions to the government vaccine.

This history should be kept in mind, now that the government has declared a public health emergency to deal with another variant of the swine flu.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.