That's just one of the many suspicious circumstances surrounding the untried vaccines & the program to inoculate everyone.
The real question is: Why are we getting vaccines for this flu? It's a lot less deadly than previous seasonal flus. Why the concern?
Actually, there is no evidence to support the claim that it is less deadly than previous seasonal flus and several bits of research that suggest it might be a bit more deadly than we thought. The first pass of this flu early in the year included some really, really bad reporting out of Mexico that at first made it appear to be the second coming of the 1918 flu and then made it look like a very mild flu strain.
So far, what we know is that it spreads very quickly because the general population has very few antibodies that can defend against it. In its current form it is not significantly more deadly than seasonal flu, but its mortality profile is a little different. It is leading to more pneumonia than most seasonal flus and it is also tending to kill more young people than standard seasonal flu, which usually kills the very young and very old but seldom kills people between those two extremes.
Given the rate at which flu mutates (and the possibility that this flu could pick up a particularly nasty mutation) and the lack of any significant herd immunity in the general population it is prudent to prepare for the worst and also to get as many people vaccinated as possible.
Because it is a highly contagious virus that might mutate into something more deadly.
And that's ignoring the "it might mutate into something killer" issue.
Cite? I was under the impression that it was about as dangerous as others.
If that were true (and I'm not sure it is), we have vaccines for the seasonal flu every year...