Awaiting Orders

The doctor suggested that, having turned 50, I should now get vaccinated for pneumonia. The vaccine is good against the most common, bacterial forms of the disease. It sounded like a good idea: after all, pneumonia is a killer that regularly puts all ages of once-healthy people into pine boxes every year. So, I rolled up my sleeve and got the shot.

Keith at Subway thought it was a bad move. "Government technology is at least a decade ahead of where people usually think it is, and it wouldn't be surprising if they injected nanomachines into your bloodstream, in order to subject you to government control."

So, healthy but enslaved, I await orders from the National Institutes of Health....