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Corgan on swine flu
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 29 October 2009
Billy Corgan has attacked what he is calling the “propaganda build up” surrounding the H1N1 virus, or swine flu. In a lengthy post on his personal blog, Everything From Here To There, he questioned Barrack Obama’s decision to declare a national emergency as a “preventative measure”, and a law apparently being passed in Massachusetts which he says will force people to be vaccinated against the virus.
He began by questioning how scary the whole swine flu thing actually is, writing: “There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic. Our American President Obama has declared a national emergency about this virus, which he in his own words said was, at this point, a preventative measure. So, why declare an emergency if there isn’t one?”
Which is all well and good, and he goes on to suggest that the virus is actually manmade, rather than something that has occurred naturally, which may or may not be true. But then he starts suggesting that it will bring about the end of the world and everything gets a bit weird: “Assume this flu is the worst thing to ever hit this planet, worse than the bubonic plague of the middle ages, or worse than any war ever conjured up. Evil itself has come to wreak havoc on the planet. Assume, for the sake of argument, it is The End”.
Okay, I’m assuming. But how will Billy face this, that’s what I want to know. Here’s how: “I for one will not be taking the vaccine. I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear. … If the virus comes to take me Home, that is between me and the Lord”.
However, keeping it all on a one-to-one basis with God might be tricky if the government decides to vaccinate you by force. Corgan continues: “The state of Massachusetts here in America is about to sign into law (if it hasn’t already) for a mandatory vaccination. The state will have the power to come into your home and incarcerate you for being unwilling to comply with a vaccination order. Didn’t you hear? Soon, you won’t even have the choice to live OR die as you wish!”
So, make of all that what you will.
