Imagine lighting $260 million dollars afire -- crazy even in the best of times, let alone these days of economic hardship. But that's what will happen when the government incinerates the 40 million expired doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine. Another 30 million doses will expire soon, and they'll be destroyed as well. It's just another day in the life of the Obama administration, the one that wants to be entrusted with running our health care.
We all remember the hysteria: the threat of a pandemic, complete with projected death tolls and statistics comparing it with the Black Plague and Spanish Influenza. People grew frightened when they learned that they would have to wait for more of the vaccine to be produced. Indeed, a good portion of the vaccine wasn't even ready until the "crisis" had passed, and within a few months the demand had waned. Seems folks figured out that, not only was the swine flu not spreading as feared, but that it wasn't causing anywhere near the number of the deaths as the run-of-the-mill seasonal flu. Now, nearly a year after all the Obama theater, we've wasted hundreds of millions of dollars that we don't have, on a threat that never materialized, while other real threats go unaddressed.
Now, remember, Government knows best about health care ...