At the behest of federal regulators, Ford appeared on TV urging all Americans to get vaccinated. Ford’s obligatory references to the 1918 Spanish flu mass fatalities inspired some 50 million US citizens to hotfoot it to their local health center for injections of hastily concocted, shoddily tested, zero-liability vaccines that HHS and Merck conspired to rush to market. CDC director David Sencer set up a swine flu “war room” to bolster public fear amongst an enthused media.7 The government launched a full-scale promotional campaign, including terrifying TV commercials depicting remorseful
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