🇨🇦 Canadians signing up to be deliberately infected with flu virus to aid vaccine research

So after years of public-health sermonizing about safety, consent, and trust, the expert class is now openly spraying influenza into people’s noses in isolation pods and calling it progress. That is the model, as reported. Healthy adults 18 to 45, negative-pressure rooms, 24/7 monitoring, antivirals on standby, and even the lead investigator admits he is nervous because every now and then a healthy person ends up in intensive care. Comforting stuff.

This is how permanent pandemic governance works in practice: build the infrastructure first, normalize the ethics later, and sell it all under preparedness. The study is funded through a pandemic-preparedness grant, pitched as a faster way to fine-tune drugs, vaccines, and future challenge trials. Translation: Canada is institutionalizing a system where managed infection becomes just another technocratic tool. And yes, we already know Liberal circles pushed for similar COVID challenge trials before Ottawa backed off over unknown long-term effects. The instinct never changed. The bureaucracy just found a virus with fewer public-relations problems.

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