The YouTube video below is of a news report about this disturbing new law. In particular, pay attention at the 1:40 mark when the anchor and reporter discuss the new penalties for not obeying the health authorities during an emergency.....
$1000 Per Day Fine And 30 Days In Jail For Refusing The Swine Flu Vaccine In Massachusetts? A new law just passed in Massachusetts imposes fines of up to $1000 per day and up to a 30 day jail sentence for not obeying authorities during a public health emergency. So if you are instructed to take the swine flu vaccine in Massachusetts and you refuse, you could be facing fines that will bankrupt you and a prison sentence on top of that.
If you have not realized it yet, the controversy over swine flu vaccinations is about to get very, very real. The authorities know that a lot of people are extremely concerned about the safety of the swine flu vaccine, and they are putting the infrastructure in place to deal with those dissenters.
Let us hope that the worst case scenario with the swine flu does not take place, but the reality is that health authorities across the United States are gearing up for the biggest vaccination campaign in the nation's history. It looks like this fall could be very, very interesting.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
If we get sick, we will have to stay home and not go to the doctors. Then no one will ever know.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Obama urges care in flu prevention WASHINGTON — With a potentially deadly swine flu outbreak looming, President Barack Obama is urging Americans to take steps to prevent infection. Obama was briefed Tuesday on the nation’s preparedness for swine flu by senior officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. Following the meeting, Obama said the government is preparing across all levels, but all Americans have a role to play in the response. “I don’t want anybody to be alarmed, but I do want everyone to be prepared,” he said. The global swine flu epidemic first emerged in April, sickening more than 1 million Americans and killing about 500. More than 2,000 people have died worldwide. Health officials are preparing for a surge in cases this fall, and one White House report from a panel of experts suggests up to half the U.S. population could catch swine flu during a pandemic. Vaccine development is ongoing and is likely to be available by October. The president said the vaccine for swine flu — known as the H1N1 virus — would be voluntary, but “strongly recommended.”
If we keep putting the fear in the people, no one will look up at the CZARs, and no one will follow anything else.....very easy to inject fear into the public for their own lives while talking from the other side of their faces and making deals hopefully no one will ever learn about.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Swine flu out of the gate early in season BY RANDOLPH E. SCHMID The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Influenza is circulating unusually early this year with cases in all 50 states — nearly all the swine flu variety, government health officials said Friday. The highest concentration of flu cases is in the Southeast and a few other states, Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said at a briefing. The good news is that testing of vaccines for swine flu show that they work with a single dose and take effect rapidly. Supplies of swine flu vaccine are expected to be available in mid-October, but the seasonal flu vaccine is available now and officials have encouraged people to get it. The H1N1 swine flu broke out in the spring and never went away, Schuchat said. It struck in many summer camps, spread into the Southern Hemisphere and now is widening its range. Currently 98 percent of the flu viruses circulating are swine flu. Cases are mainly occurring in children and young adults, Schuchat said. The finding that the swine flu vaccine works in a single dose in healthy adults “shortens the window of worry,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said. “There’s no better protection against the flu than vaccine.” ..................>>>>.....................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00401&AppName=1
Mandatory flu shots not welcome Health care workers can be fired if they refuse Saturday, September 19, 2009 By Kathy Bowen (Contact) Gazette Reporter
CAPITAL REGION — A registered nurse employed by Saratoga Hospital says she feels her rights as a citizen are being violated by a state Health Department mandate that she get flu shots or be fired. The rule affects all health care personnel, both paid and unpaid, who interact with patients in hospitals, diagnostic and treatment centers, certified home health agencies, long-term health care programs, AIDS home care programs, licensed home care services and hospices. Nurse Judy McQueen of Ballston said she has had one flu shot in her life and afterward she felt ill. “Two years ago I was giving flu shots to make a little extra money and I felt guilty that I hadn’t had one myself,” she said. “So I took the shot and I was ill for months.” She said she is very healthy and practices good hygiene to stay well. “I haven’t had the flu since I was 8 years old,” she said Friday. “I believe taking precautions such as frequent hand washing, wearing a mask and staying home if you don’t feel well are adequate for protecting patients.” Saratoga Hospital sent notices to all employees who have contact with patients that they will be required to have seasonal and H1N1 flu shots by Nov. 1 or face disciplinary action and then, if they continue to refuse, they could be fired.....................>>>>..................>>>>......................http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2009/sep/19/0919_flushots/
By WILL DOOLITTLE will@poststar.com Friday, September 18, 2009 6:52 PM EDT
Two nurses who work at Glens Falls Hospital are speaking out about their dissatisfaction with a new state requirement that all health care workers receive flu vaccinations.
Their opposition to the requirement is backed by the New York State Nurses Association, a union with 37,000 members. The union supports flu vaccinations in general, including for health care workers, but opposes the state’s action that made them mandatory.
On Aug. 13, the state Department of Health issued an emergency regulation requiring flu shots for all health care workers, except those with medical conditions that could be made worse by the shots.
"It’s not about the shot," said Mary Homkey of Glens Falls, who has been working as a nurse for 20 years. "It’s about my rights as a person not to take medicine into my body that I don’t need."
Homkey said she has never gotten a flu shot and has never gotten the flu.
Her colleague at Glens Falls Hospital, Jill Litchfield, who has been working as a nurse for 25 years, said she had the flu once, when she was 20, and has gotten the vaccine just once in the past couple of decades.
"The flu shot is not the only weapon in the arsenal against the flu," Litchfield said.
Frequent hand-washing, use of masks and isolation — staying home when you’re sick — are other ways to avoid catching and spreading the flu.
Health care workers are currently being required to take the vaccine for seasonal flu, the virus that tends to spread in North America each winter. But when the H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine is approved, they will be required to get that shot, too.
"We sympathize with them," said Mark Genovese, a spokesman for the nurses union, about the two local nurses. "We absolutely oppose this as a requirement."
The union supports use of the vaccination, Genovese said, as long as it is voluntary.
A call to duty: Receive flu shot State commissioner tells wary health care workers to put patients first, get mandatory immunization
By CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY, Staff writer First published in print: Saturday, September 26, 2009
ALBANY -- State Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines is working to quell fears expressed by some health care workers this week, saying they should put their patients first and get the flu shot. New York became the only state to mandate the flu shot for people who work in hospitals, home health care settings and outpatient clinics. New York health workers also must get the swine flu vaccine when it becomes available. Otherwise, they will be fired. Hospitals have been fielding complaints from employees about the mandate, and on Tuesday, a group is holding a protest at the state Capitol. In a recent open letter to workers, Daines argued that health care workers must set aside personal concerns and take the shots to protect vulnerable patients and prevent the spread of influenza.
"The whole point is to look at this in the interest of patients, and their interests are that we get all our health care workers vaccinated," Daines said in an interview.
For a profession that typically achieves a 40 percent flu vaccination rate, it's a tall order.
Nurses, in particular, need to set an example, Daines said. "We know that patients put a lot of credence in what nurses say and do," he said. "Patients tend to wait until the doctor leaves the room and say, 'OK, nurse, tell me the real story.' That's why you'd hope the nursing profession understands that this is where we lead."
Sue Field, a Poughkeepsie nurse who is organizing Tuesday's protest, doesn't want to go along with the state mandate.
"We are intelligent, educated people and we make lifesaving decisions every day, and we don't feel comfortable with the government telling us what I should stick in my body," Field said. He added that nurses worry about the safety of the shots, especially the H1N1 vaccine that she fears was rushed through production.
When I was taking my EMT training the Doctor who was teaching us about various drugs made a statement that I have never forgotten and I have followed my whole life. He said, "never put any drug into your body unless you absolutely have to because you never know what type of reaction you're going to have from it".
CAPITOL Health care workers to protest flu shot order BY KATHY BOWEN Gazette Reporter
Health care workers from across New York state plan to rally at the Capitol today in protest of a state mandate that they receive seasonal and swine fl u immunizations or risk losing their jobs. The mandate, signed by state Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines in August, was recommended by the New York State Hospital Review and Planning Council. Sue Field is a registered nurse working in a Poughkeepsie hospital who is helping to organize the rally planned for the East Capitol Park steps beginning at 10 a.m. today. She said her employer has advised her against revealing where she works or face disciplinary action. “The rally has grown from a handful of nurses in the Poughkeepsie area who were blown away that the government would have the nerve to take away our choice of what goes into our bodies,” Field said. “We want the choice of whether to be vaccinated.” Health Department spokeswoman Claire Pospisil said Monday she was aware of the planned rally and the topics of concern expressed by those who oppose the mandate. She said most of the concerns can be answered in a letter from the commissioner that is posted on the department’s Web site — http://www.health.state.ny.us. In that letter, Daines urged health care workers to put the patients’ interests ahead of their own. “[T]he facts are very clear: the welfare of patients is, without any doubt, best served by the very high rates of staff immunity that can only be achieved with mandatory influenza vaccination,” he wrote. Field said health care providers are very good about washing their hands and taking other precautions to protect patients. “The biggest risk to patients is the visitors at the hospital. There’s zero control over them,” she said. “I work on a floor that is populated with a lot of visitors and many days we have people who are coughing, sneezing and obviously feverish. Sometimes we have to tell them to leave the unit.” Daines said the federal government has extended a privilege to health care workers who will have early access to the H1N1 — or swine flu — vac-............>>>>............>>>>................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....1&Continuation=1
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