On August 13, 2009 an emergency regulation went into effect, which requires that all personnel of certain health care settings receive annual vaccinations against influenza by November 30 of each year unless they have a medical contraindication to the vaccination or the State Commissioner of Health determines that there is an insufficient supply of vaccine for the year...Personnel who must be vaccinated against influenza include all those affiliated with the employer, paid or unpaid, who have direct contact with patients or whose activities are such that they pose a risk of transmission of influenza to patients or to those who provide direct care to patients. (http://www.health.state.ny.us/diseases/communicable/influenza/seasonal/providers/2009-08-26_health_care_worker_mandatory_influenza_immunization.htm)
Damn, I came up here for this? I thought New York was full of progressive, liberal folks. If there is no revolution here, I'll be packing my shit, and heading back South.
I have spent the past two days reading up on swine flu and vaccinations in general and I have been almost sick to my stomach with that I have seen. Here are some highlights from Flu Vaccines: Are They Effective and Safe?, by Richard Gale and Gary Null, PhD:
...there is technically no difference in calling this particular flu stain a pandemic threat compared to any other...reports from scientists around the world are starting to admit that infection rates, symptoms and mortality for this particular H1N1 strain are milder than other flu viruses...
The Wall Street Journal in April 2009 reported that the WHO grossly inflated the number flu deaths they reported as much as 15-fold. The actual confirmed swine flu deaths in Mexico were 7 instead 152.
Although the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out $1.2 billion in damages due to vaccine adverse effects in children, the vaccine makers impose gag orders to prevent public disclosure of vital proprietary information during settlements.
...medical students have testified before Congress that they were instructed to not report vaccine incidents in their private practice. The recent authorization of the 2006 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparadness Act provides vaccine manufacturers with legal impunity in the event the new untested Swine Flu vaccines result in a wave of serious injury and death...
Need anything else be said?
There are many people who are just fine with this mandate. They will roll up their sleeves (well, actually, the first batch is a nasal mist) just as they always have. And I support them because I support choice and informed consent. Where there is no choice, nor informed consent, a Health Scare System exists--a system which profits off of ignorance.
The rest of us will refuse, for a variety of reasons. Me personally, I don't take new shit. Period. No Gardasil, no meningococcal. I'm still hot about "the Patch" (birth control) and its effects. (I swear it was pulled off the market, but then put back on.) The more I have researched about vaccinations and their history, the less I am inclined to support any kind of mandatory vaccination program. And the LAST people on earth, that I support giving this vaccine to, is pregnant women--an already vulnerable and exploited population--which would explain why they are the number one targets (outside of healthcare workers).
The only exemption that exists for this mandate for healthcare workers is medical contraindication--nope, no relgious or strong conviction allowed. And the only way I will be taking these vaccinations is if I am strapped to a chair or table and drugged by Big Brother himself--at which time I will call in the media, (which I don't expect to help me, in that they support the propaganda machine) and scream rape...better yet, FIRE!!!!
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