Canada Bad. No, Canada Good!
Think the president should be able to remember things he said all the way back in 2002? I've got news for you - Bush had trouble remembering what he'd said at the second debate five days previously.
On the subject of flu vaccines the president was perilously cavalier. The question was: "
We are talking about protecting ourselves from the unexpected, but the flu season is suddenly upon us. Flu kills thousands of people every year. Suddenly we find ourselves with a severe shortage of flu vaccine. How did that happen?"
As usual, Bush made excuses and blamed someone else - this time, our erstwhile allies the English. Stupid English.
"Bob, we relied upon a company out of England to provide about half of the flu vaccines for the United States citizen, and it turned out that the vaccine they were producing was contaminated. And so we took the right action and didn't allow contaminated medicine into our country."
Good for us. Except the flu vaccine was actually under the control of an American company which outsourced its medical research to a private plant in England. And it was the British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency who subsequently suspended the vaccine-maker's license and stopped further shipments. (Stupid government regulators, sticking their noses into everything. Now they've even taken away our right to shoot ourselves up with contaminated flu vaccines.)
Bush went on: "We're working with Canada to hopefully - that they'll produce a - help us realize the vaccine necessary to make sure our citizens have got flu vaccinations during this upcoming season."
Okay, hold the phone. During the second debate, Dubya told us some scary stories about Canadian drugs:
"And what my worry is is that, you know, it looks like it's from Canada, and it might be from a third world."
Eek!
It's alright though, because if you can't get contaminated flu vaccines from England or third world flu vaccines from Canada, Our Great Leader has some good advice for you:
"Don't get a flu shot."
Phew. We know what to do now.
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