is this a joke?

[sleevespeak]

a colleague of mine suggested to me that it is good to avoid getting the flu shot, as it is rigged to cause us to do excessive christmas shopping

Comments

[janey_emm]

I think your colleague just watches too many reruns of The Simpsons on CBC. Total shout-out to that episode where they were on the weird island!

[igatha]

Maybe your colleague misunderstood. Maybe the idea is that if we are all sick, we won't be doing much Christmas shopping. Someone else suggested to me that the reason the government is pushing the vaccine is that, if everyone is off work, the economy will be damaged. Personally, though, I don't buy into conspiracy theories. The world is not that organized.