It’s like some macabre Monty Python sketch; in the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, a victim must be considered at least 60% disabled, which it describes as equal to the loss of one hand.

What is your kid’s immune system worth to you? The government spent a ridiculous £1.2 billion peddling Big Pharma’s rubbish swine flu vaccine but fought tooth and nail over a meagre £120,000 for a child with uncontested vaccine-induced narcolepsy? You get the idea Mr. Burns is running the vaccine injury pay outs. (“He’s still conscious— sometimes? He has two hands? Excellent — Release the vaccines.”)

It’s the same in the US. Both countries have granted legal indemnity to the $25 billion a year vaccine industry so drug companies get off scot-free for vaccine damage. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation board in the US is a miserly excuse for justice that has even contested the number of diapers a vaccine-injured child would need for the rest of his life.

Greedy as Goldman Sachs. Or, is there something else these people are worried about losing, since they don’t usually mind spending taxpayers’ money? Maybe deep down they fear there are a lot more cases of vaccine injury out there and serious events are not as rare as they want to believe? Maybe if they admit to one, then they might have to look at other cases they’ve been cramming in their cluttered unconscious — terrible cases of dead babies paralyzed girls and lives destroyed. They might start questioning their long-held technocratic dogmas and the authenticity of medicine’s greatest miracle; they might just wonder if they’ve just traded natural infectious disease for an epidemic of man-made autoimmune disease. It’s hard losing your religion.