This week in Mash History: Dr Edward Jenner invents vaccines and tiny, tiny microchips to go in them, 1796

THE discovery that harmless cowpox inoculated against deadly smallpox saved humanity from a disease that killed one in every ten people, while causing bothersome injections from local pharmacists. 

But did you know that Edward Jenner’s prototype vaccines contained both life-changing immune resistance and a variety of microchips to be operated by insidious, deep-state cabals?

Jenner’s contemporary writings have shown the pioneer physician was not only courageously testing his theories on children, but able to keep tabs on them forever with a microscopic tracker.

An extract from his notes reads: “My methodology was exact. I collected matter from a cowpox sore on the hand of a milkmaid and inoculated an eight-year-old boy with it. Along, of course, with a selection of minuscule technological devices.

“The latter are the whole point. Why else would I bother attempting to protect the health of the child of one of my servants? They die with such frequency I do not even give a day’s leave for mourning.

“My assistant continues to ask what purpose the microchips serve. The question should be what don’t they serve? Location tracking, mind control, tolerance of homosexuality – anything you can think of. As long as it doesn’t make any logical sense.

“My fellow man in Gloucestershire will fall in line instantly like ‘sheeple’, a hybrid of sheep and people I am working on over in Wales. They will blindly follow ‘scientific fact’ and for what? To successfully prevent and reduce death from serious infection? Pathetic.

“One day, there may be some extraordinary minds who figure out the reality of the project. And they will surely be heralded as the greatest minds of their generation.”

And so Jenner’s gift to humanity was not merely their survival but their total control, which in the modern day millions decided to heroically forgo in favour of handing their details over to social media and DNA analysis businesses instead.

Next week: to 44 BC, when Julius Caesar repeatedly asks ‘So what are these Ides of March? Anyone?’ while everyone awkwardly looks at mosaics on the floor.

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