It has become increasingly popular to believe that vaccines do not work. However, while people are right that vaccines are part of a wider conspiracy, it’s not in the way these anti-vax theories would have you believe.

Vaccines have been very successful in eradicating many diseases, contributing to longer life expectancy. This longer life expectancy causes extreme financial issues for governments who need to pay to support older people via social care and pensions. The government would rather that everyone died as soon as they stopped being able to work.

There are many methods that are employed to decrease the life expectancy of the population – from increasing urban pollution to poisoning foodstuffs. However, chief amongst these is to discourage people from getting vaccines that would otherwise protect them from preventable diseases. In order to do this, governments are secretly attempting to convince people that vaccines are dangerous, through a network of spies who spread discredited information online. The governments of course publicly deny that vaccines are dangerous, further convincing people that they are covering something up. It’s the classic double bluff.

The government try particularly hard to spread these theories amongst groups of people they would like to die out most and so target forums and websites that these people spend the most time on. Meanwhile, senior government officials will always ensure that they and their families are fully immunised.