O Sweet Litigious Society

Listening to the radio this morning on the way into work, and a person came on from CDC (Center for Disease Control.) He was talking about the avian flu. He sounded, understandably enough I suppose, depressed. According to him, its basically just a matter of time before we get hit with the flu. And then he said

"Fortunately we have developed a vaccine that is very effective."

While saying this, his voice remained in a Ben Stein monotone, and I was thinking to myself, shouldn't he be happy about this? This is good news, right? Then he says,

"Unfortunately we don't have even close to the capacity needed to create enough of the vaccine."

Ugh

It appears that many companies have gotten out of the creating vaccinations business because there were too many lawsuits.

I don't know about anyone else, but that sure makes me proud to be an American.