More Govt Data Mining: EPA to Track Keywords About the Flu on TwitterMelissa Melton The solicitation document goes on to say that these Twitter messages, will be evaluated by U.S. EPA human health specialists to determine if they are indicative of AGI. Because the agency used the phrase human health specialists plural with an s that means that multiple people over at the EPA will be employed to sit around and analyze Tweets with the words vomiting and diarrhea in them. That will be their job. Considering this is a five-year study, it likely isnt going to be cheap, either as Elizabeth Harrington at The Washington Free Beacon points out: No word on why the EPA is conducting this study instead of the CDC (which already tracks the flu on the agencys Flu Activity Surveillance webpage) or the Department of Health and Human Services which runs the governments official Flu.gov website (tagline: Its not too late to vaccinate!) and official Flu.gov Twitter account @FluGov where you can learn all about the flu and the flu vaccine, including nifty factoids like, It takes two weeks for the flu vaccine to take effect. What else could this (derisive air quotes) research secondarily be used for? Well, as Daisy Luther of Organic Prepper reported, there are those pesky anti-vaccine advocates, nicknamed Flugitives, who simply refuse to line up for their flu vaccine: Theres also the potential usefulness of combating, say, adverse reaction reports to vaccines as they happen you know, to reassure the public that the flu shot is totally safe in case they should get any other misinformation about it. By the way, isnt it great we live in a country where the government spends millions in taxpayer dollars to employ specialists to analyze Tweets? Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media. Wake the flock up! 