No! Not Gravy!! Nooooo!!!

And so while browsing The Monkey Cage, I came across a post regarding an article over at Slate online, which addresses the recent bipartisan coalition that has been formed against the H1N1 vaccination. This consequently reminded me of a quote from Mel Gibson's Conspiracy Theory (hence the title of this post) where Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) cries out in despair to Dr. Jonas (some guy) that he doesn't want the dreaded gravy, which happens to be an injection of some type of wacked-out-mind-altering drug. Now, not that I have trust issues (cough*) with the Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the actual beneficial nature of the vaccine, but I couldn't help but wonder - why should the government even be worrying about the swine flu in the first place? I mean, to date, H1N1 has only caused a total of 76 deaths anyways. What has been bothering me though, is how our government is actually promoting - through various channels of the media - a nationwide scare about something that is, in my opinion, not even a serious threat. This then carries further implications, namely how quickly the government has provided us, the citizenry, with this "panacea," which we need to take, in order to immunize ourselves from the all-evil swine flu. Whether HHS is actually trying to help, or set some precedent that will allow future mandatory vaccinations, I for one, will pass on the gravy.