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Original poster

to think that there are some odd people out there?

36 replies

kveta · 21/10/2010 10:04

I'm 'friends' with my MP on facebook.

she's just posted "X urges constituents to get flu vaccine".

One of her fellow 'friends' has written:
"I am worried the govt. puts chemicals in the vaccine to keep the population docile/suppress rebellious thought. I know that you would not know or support this X but who knows what some secret lab is up to deep in the English countryside???????????????"

I'm hopeful that this is a joke.

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NordicPrincess · 21/10/2010 10:06

probebly not. the chemicals used to clean our water also have pacifying side affects.

BuntyPenfold · 21/10/2010 10:07

Nooooo - it's true!

School meals are also to be treated with the same chemicals.

GypsyMoth · 21/10/2010 10:07

scope for alot of government control there then,if it vere appened. but the 'flu' target group arent the ones who need supressing!!!

GypsyMoth · 21/10/2010 10:07

actually,sounds a good plot for a film!

Lauriefairycake · 21/10/2010 10:08

people believe all sorts of shit. There are of course some on mumsnet.

Moon landings, lizards, world ending in 2012.

People are erm......eccentric freaks Grin

SarahStratton · 21/10/2010 10:09

PMSL

Now the school meals thing sounds good to me [hgrin]

commanderprimate · 21/10/2010 10:10

Oh, there's a much madder theory out there about flu vaccinations - that Swine Flu was made up in order to force mass vaccinations that would kill off a large part of the population, so that the remaining conspiracy leaders could have all the booty left behind. Something like that, anyway.

What the hell chemical would have a pacifying effect on one dose anyway?

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kveta · 21/10/2010 10:10

In thinking about it, I'm erring on the side of 'joke' as the comment was mainly spelt correctly. But it's sadly believable that someone could think like that...

laurie - totally agree [hgrin]

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IMoveTheStars · 21/10/2010 10:11

"the chemicals used to clean our water also have pacifying side affects."

??

GiganGORE · 21/10/2010 10:11

The world is indeed full of freaks

NordicPrincess · 21/10/2010 10:15

yes they do actually! we used to have a lodger who worked for a certain water company, its not done deliberatly of course ahem, but some of the chemicals used to clean the water also have pacifying affects.

GoreRenewed · 21/10/2010 10:15

Ah bless! Leave 'em to it. It's a hobby.

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kveta · 21/10/2010 10:17

another comment was "hmmm why bother hey are vaccinating you against LAST years flu virus plus hey are illegally topping it up with the over bought stash of swine flu vaccines..whats a waste...people tell me to get it as i have asthma..id rather have flu thank satleast its upto date..its this seasons."

clearly a fruit loop.

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mamatomany · 21/10/2010 10:19

And yet they refuse to put fluorine in the water to save teeth Confused

MarineIguana · 21/10/2010 10:20

We could do with a few pacifying effects round my house.

But it's a shame this slew of suppressive chemicals seem to have little effect on people's determination to dream up conspiracy theories.

SolidButShamblingUndeadBrass · 21/10/2010 10:20

Er, that would be because fluorine isn't actually all that good for you, mamatomany.

AbsofCroissant · 21/10/2010 10:20

Yip, the world's full of freaks.

But, in SA in the 1980s there were plans to sterlise the black population using altered vaccines, so not beyond the realms of possibility

Psychommead · 21/10/2010 10:22

Really gotta watch that 60+ group ya know. Bunch of rebel rousers.

The government don't need to pacify anyone. The population is, en masse, selfish and lazy about things like bloody revolution. Just conintue the status quo, more or less, and people just get on with it.

Now, just wait until I have put on mu sunglasses, and all look at this pen....

Move along now, nothing to see here.

MarineIguana · 21/10/2010 10:23

Yes and the USA has done some unfortunate experiments on people in the past without their consent - that's partly where these ideas come from.

SheWillBeLoved · 21/10/2010 10:23

Having read the New World Order, I'm actually inclined to agree with the nutty poster Grin she may be being a bit dramatic in this case, but I believe a lot of stuff like this does go on. We only know what we're told after all! Clearly I need a hobby Wink

DomesticG0ddess · 21/10/2010 10:25

Yes mamatomany, why should we have extra chemicals in our water just because some people can't clean their teeth properly?

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kveta · 21/10/2010 10:25

I just don't think the government is a) organised enough and b) secretive enough to have plans like this. They can barely manage to govern FFS, let alone conspire to pacify the populace!

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mamatomany · 21/10/2010 10:28

For the greater good, which is nothing to do with people not cleaning their teeth properly, fluoridation of the water supply is an excellent idea that some benefit from and some don't, shame.

NordicPrincess · 21/10/2010 10:32

well i would argue the gov can be organised enough to do anything that will benefit themselves

Psychommead · 21/10/2010 10:34

Ahhhm kveta but that's what they want you to believe! In reality of course, MPs are all turned into lizard men by aliens just after they are sworn in.

Civil servants are, of course, cybermen, and parliment is on a hellmouth. A combination of Buffy, Xena and Dr. Who could save us all, but they are being held captive the the Media in room 101.

All of which is irrelevant of course when you realise that we're all in the matrix anyway and there is no flu.

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