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Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended
lunatick writes "The controversial mandatory swine flu vaccine for health care workers in NY has been suspended. While the reason for the suspension was stated as a shortage of the vaccine, a connection was found showing state Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D. and/or his wife may directly profit from the sale of the vaccine. Within hours of that connection being questioned on a radio show and the podcast being distributed, the announcement was made suspending the order. The health care community of NYS is petitioning the State Attorney general to investigate the connection."
The same people who say that women must have free access to abortion, because they have the right to say what they do with their bodies, are now saying that NYS health care workers don't have the right to say what they do with their bodies with regards to a vaccine?
When I deployed to Iraq, I didn't want to take the anthrax vaccine, because the DoD were lying to us about it. They claimed that it was the same vaccine that veterinarians take. My wife is a veterinarian, and the shots they gave me were not what she gets.
I didn't want to take it, but I didn't have a choice. As a soldier, I don't have any rights over my own body. If the DoD says I have to take a vaccine, then I have to take it or face a courts martial. So I took the vaccine, and endured one of the known side effects: I had arthritis in both of my shoulders for over a year. I'm lucky that it's mostly gone now.
Why is it that liberals say that a woman has the right to decide whether or not she gets an abortion because it's her body, but say that health care workers don't have the right to decide whether or not they get vaccines, even though it's their body?????
I would not put it past these companies to create new flu strains and unleash them on the public, knowing sales would be generated. We've known about this strain since March 2009 and there are shortages of the vaccine so everyone is scrambling to buy it. One company in 2008 in it's SEC filing (sorry I do not recall it) claimed that they expected a 800% increase in antiviral sales in 2009 from government stockpiling.
and here's a gem.
"That the so-called swine flu was first observed in Mexico just at the same time Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France, was visiting there to announcement the establishment of a new French vaccine plant in Mexico, has to be more than coincidence." http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi122.html
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Aventis-Vaccine-Factory-in-by-Doreen-Carlson-090519-669.html
Even our own government has in the past infected it's own population to see how disease spreads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_biological_weapons_program#Experiments_on_non-consenting_individuals
I'm not one to cook up conspiracy theories, but it's always healthy to question things IMO.
Most of the opposition in New York seems to be coming from some nutcase who runs an embroidery firm, organizes GOP "Tea Parties", and rants about vaccines and autism.
Vaccines are safer than most over the counter medications. The US already has over 1000 swine flu deaths this year, and we're not even into winter yet. Getting vaccinated is definitely a statistical win. Getting medical personnel vaccinated is essential; they are going to encounter infected patients, and they can transmit the disease to others weakened by other illnesses.
General Charles Krulak (former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, and one of the best ones) wrote this about the USMC mandatory anthrax vaccination program: "As we continue to broaden this program, I want to make you aware of a phenomenon we have observed: reluctance to take the anthrax vaccination is inversely proportional to the distance the marine is from the fighting hole. No marines engaged in Desert Thunder refused the vaccine." No nonsense there.
Tell you what. Instead of spending my time "rebutting" the unending stream of drivel that I'm sure you can dredge up, I'll just give you this advice:
If you'd like to make your medical decisions based on contrarian rants from ninteen twenty-three, be my guest. Please feel free to abstain from then-nonexistent antibiotics. Heck, feel free to discard the entire "germ theory of disease." The more thoroughly you reject the benefits of modern medicine, the sooner the gene pool will be rid of you.