as in most countries, in germany politicians also love to make up "severe threats" to keep the public busy in order to distract from the real problems.
usually they are pretty good in that (um, well, actually the people are simply stupid enough), but this time they failed in an epic way.
in the last months a real paranoia was rised by the media about that superkiller-disease (AIDS and cancer are are picknick compared to it) named swine-flu. millions of people already died in germany...um, oh, wait, actually just 3, and all of them were really sick before (they most likely would have died already from a broken fingernail too).
but hooray! millions and millions of Euro have been spent to create a vaccine, seems this is much more urgent than cancer were thousands of people die from every year. but ok, now here comes the fun part:
there are 2 different vaccine versions ("t" and "t+"), the "t" one is much more expensive than the "t+" one but well tested, the "t+" one is cheap but not really tested and already known to cause nasty side-effects. the government called all citizens to get vaccinations at doctors or medical centers, now guess what serum version we get...yeup, the "t+" one.
and now guess what serum versions our beloved politicians, VIPs and military commanders get....yeup: the "t" one.
needless to say that I will skip that vaccination.
