The government. Again!

 

The government is intensely interested in your health; specifically, how healthy you are and how easy it is to affect that. They want to know all they can about what kills you or makes you sick or drives you crazy, and how those things move through the population or flow through the nation’s infrastructure.

This is crucial knowledge. It is a matter of preparation—for attacks, for pandemics, or for simple civil unrest. The government—and especially the military—must be on the bleeding edge of science to ensure an advantage against all enemies, present and future. The justification for assault on American citizens has always been that sacrifices must be made in the name of security. This is an excuse you must be used to hearing by now, that your individual rights are secondary to the good of the body politic, that you must sacrifice your privacy, your freedom, and even your health, so that the government can ensure your safety.