Providing a glimpse of what may come nationally, New York state’s appointed Governor David Paterson has mandated that all medical personnel in hospitals, including physicians, nurses, and aides receive the H1N1 swine flu vaccination by November 30th, 2009 or risk being fired.
Richard Daines, New York’s Commissioner of Health appointed by New York’s unelected Governor Paterson, recently stated at a press conference “No one likes to be told what to do. We have to persuade and lead by example.” This issue is not just relevant to New Yorkers; being mandated by any unelected official is a snapshot of the possible healthcare legislation facing the majority of Americans today. There are constitutional concerns, liberty concerns, and medical concerns.
On Tuesday, several hundred health care workers held a rally on the Capital Steps in Albany; this rally was not about politics, but about whether individuals should have control over their own personal healthcare. Does the government have the right to mandate that health personnel receive injections of the H1N1 vaccination?
The nurses and doctors protesting questioned the validity of studies and conclusions regarding the effectiveness and proof that medical personnel are making patients sick. Additionally, since New York State Healh Commissioner Daines ordered this mandate; there has not been any state legislation or policy discussed within the New York State Legislature.
There are approximately 700,000 medical professionals in New York State alone. Studies have shown that only 50% receive an annual flu shot. If 50% of medical personnel refuse this mandated shot, it will create a critical shortage of nurses in New York State where there are already severage shortages. Furthermore, in 2005 and 2007, studies have shown that the swine vaccination was 30% effective.
However, the real questions is whether the medical professionals will be fired if they refuse this vaccination. If they are fired, will the unions who have been silent during this debate step in? Recent studies released by Canada confirm that people who have had their annual flu show last year, and receive this H1N1 vaccination do not reach well.
As the national debate heats up on personal choice of healthcare, the issue is already alive in New York. The unelected bureaucrats in New York have already decided that citizens have lost their right to choose their personal healthcare. Furthermore, if they refuse to receive the vaccination, they risk being fired.
New York’s Department of Health website lists anticipated side effects of this fast tracked H1N1 vaccination – side effects which could be similar to the flu itself.
With the U.S. government already indemnifying the pharmaceutical companies and with mass production for these vaccinations ready for worldwide distribution, the first shipments of the vaccination will be arriving in New York the first week of October. New Yorkers are the first samples in the petri dish for study.
Most telling, however, is the following: Commissioner Daines was asked by a reporter whether he will receive this vaccination H1N1 and his response was ”He has not received the vaccination since he doesn’t want to appear to go to the front of the line.”
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Melanie Stefanik is a business executive residing in upstate New York.
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The one thing that is also very scary and very telling, is that Massachusets trying to pass a law that would make it o.k. for the authorities to force your Child to be vaccinated, or threatening jail time if you don’t follow their law on vacination, and forced quarantine.
This is the next “crisis” that they will use to push healthcare through. The numbers on swine flu are so off. I have a friend that went to the ER about 2 weeks ago, they told her she had the flu, stay in her house all that crap, to find out she had a bloodstream infection that damn near caused sepsis. They counted her among the ppl infected with the flu, even though when she went back a week later it was found to be a massive infection that had started in her gums. So she is on the list for flu but has never contracted it, she is in the hospital tonight being treated for this infection. She is lucky the second doctor wasn’t so dismissive.
So now theres one more counted as having the flu, that didn’t have it.
If it is so important that these numbers be accurate, why are the ER personnel not testing for H1N1? they just tell you have flu and send you home tell you to stay in the house, if this is the next big epidemic, that is a pretty poor strategy to get it taken care of. that is unless you want it to turn into a pandemic.
Now just one more little thing, this h1n1 flu, has not been shown to be any more virulent than the regular flu. The regular seasonal flu kills more people than this h1n1 flu has or will. Mexico made it through without a vaccine and it didn’t do as much damage as their regular flu season does. So why are we panicing?
One other small word and ill be quiet. My great grandmother cared for my greatgrandfather while he had the swine flue way back in early 1900′s she was 3 months pregnant with my grandfather, she cared for him day in and day out, burned the sheets he laid on and the clothes he wore to keep from spreading the sickness. Sadly he would die short timelater. She never contracted it, she carried my gradfather to term and gave birth to a healthy baby. She was isolated with this man intheir home througout his illness, she never got it. she never got sick, she lived to be 95 years old.
We as a country need to SLOW DOWN, we do not need to restructure our country because we have a president that has some pie in the sky dream of what the world SHOULD BE. He needs to land, come down to earth and face reality, stop with the daily press avails and keep his face off the television, he has already made himself look a fool with all the speeches that have accomplished ZERO! go into that big round office that they hold for ya, called the oval office and do your job!Listen to the People not your elite hoity toity advisors, tht from what I can see are dumber than a rock.