This is going to be a quick note on a cuff as I make my way through Amazon’s glorious-because-it’s-what-would-happen series, “The Boys”. Based on the premise of how superheroes, with all-too-human flaws, would operate in the real world, the show fully explores the inevitable power-drunkenness, vaunting egotism, and corruption that powered humans would exhibit if they really existed. And the worship by the public that blinds them to their flaws. So, maybe I should warn: spoilers?
Okay.
So early in the first episode, a lightning fast “supe” runs straight through a major character’s girlfriend, instantly killing her in gruesome fashion. The grieving man is later approached by an FBI agent, who informs him that “Supes lose hundreds of people each year to collateral damage”, to which the character responds, “No. Come on, that’d be all over the news. People would be screaming bloody murder.”
Sound familiar?
Isn’t there one particular pharmaceutical product that inspires that same blind worship on the part of the public, and encouraged by a snake’s den of corporate, regulatory, and government interests? All of whom share the same desire to suppress the true casualty rate and long-term health effects of this product? A casualty and injury rate that is never reported on by the corporate press, because people would be screaming bloody murder?
Isn’t there one particular pharma product that seems to be wearing an invisible cape, wreathed in holy light? And isn’t there one pharma product exempt from safety testing, from legal liability, beyond reproach? And isn’t that just the environment for the cancerous growth of unchecked corruption? We know it, and we know it hasn’t earned that esteem. Modern vaccines are riding the coattails of the earlier, and questionable, successes of the polio and smallpox vaccines. Undeservedly so.
