NY nurses first to be forced to vaccinate; Glaxo earns $3bn on vaccines: Connection?

August 5, 3:56 PMDC Ethical Issues ExaminerLaura Harrison McBride

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Quarantine flag flown on disease-carrying ships (Wiki Commons)

It has already begun. New York state has made flu shots compulsory for all health-care workers in the state, despite nurses’ opposition, according to an article on the New York State Nursing Association website.

The nurses, who noted that flu shots are never even close to 100% effective, and were largely ineffective in 2005 and 2007, fear two things. First, they note that the ruling does not allow for religious refusal, thus depriving some nurses of earning a living. Or causing them to leave a profession already suffering huge shortages. Indeed, a spokeswoman for the nursing organization said that mandatory flu shots would likely make some nurses leave the profession, “a serious threat at a time when the shortage of nurses in New York State is expected to reach 20,000 within a decade.” It is interesting that additional pressure on an overworked health-care provider cohort should happen now, as the first Baby Boomers begin to retire and become eligible for Medicare, for some the first health-care/health insurance program they’ve had in a long time, or ever. With the Baby Boom the largest generation ever, it doubtless constitutes a good number of the 47 million Americans without health insurance.

Second, “The association also is concerned that the state and healthcare facilities might rely upon flu shots to prevent the spread of influenza among workers and patients rather than implementing proven infection control procedures such the use of appropriate respirators and isolation rooms,” according to their recent press release. The New York State Hospital Planning and Review Council has adopted the rule so that it could go into effect before the winter flu season.

The New York State Hospital Planning and Review Council’s ethics are certainly in question over this. Ignoring the impassioned request of the single largest body of highly educated, dedicated professional health-care deliverers in the state is either stupid, unethical or greedy. It is likely the final description, greedy, is the one most likely in play. The UK Telegraph reported that, “Total orders for the vaccine are now estimated to be worth $1.5bn but analysts anticipate the order book could top the $3bn mark on the basis of the current flow of orders. The US government has contracts with Glaxo that could be worth an additional $250m.”

Noting that the U.S. government, headquartered in Washington, DC, has placed a huge order for the vaccine, one needn’t wonder too long as to whether they intend the garbage to be injected into citizens or not. One can only wonder how many congressmen and women and how many career bureaucrats took how much money from GlaxoSmithKline to ensure the vectors for using that elephantine order of potentially harmful, almost certainly worthless, hastily produced vaccine will be in place. The fact that an executive order signed by King George The Bushwhacker (EO 13295) still stands might be indication enough that we had all best protect our arms and buttocks from the needless needles of Novartis, another vaccine producer.

The nurses’ assertion that vaccines have been notably unsuccessful in the past (except, one might add, producing nasty side effects such as Guillain-Barré paralysis syndrome, and death), it is especially interesting that an Associated Press report on July 26, 2009, noted that the World Health Organization said the viruses being used for the vaccines were not producing enough of a key ingredient.”

Useless might be the best word to attach to the current batch of vaccines.

Dastardly might be the best word to apply to the actions of the New York State Hospital Planning and Review Council.

Fascistic might be the best word to apply to the Executive Order, unless one wished to add unconstitutional, should anyone have the money, moxie and longevity to prove it.

Greedy might be the best word to apply to GlaxoSmithKline and to any and all congressional members and public servants (a term I believe should be used instead of bureaucrat, if for no other reason than to remind them of who their employer really is) who have thrust out an open paw to look the other way, or even to collude.

Unethical might be the best word to apply to the entire unholy mess.

The only ethical response is to demand that Mr. Obama rescind Executive Order 13295, and to vote with your feet against the unethical conduct of the pharmaceutical giants, ginning out worthless vials of contagion to spread through an unsuspecting population via toxins such as mercury and formaldehyde and their new “supercharging” additives that make the vaccines even more likely to wreak health havoc than ever before. How does one vote with one’s feet? Find a naturopath or homeopath to deliver your health care. Anyway, they’re so inexpensive next to the A.M.A. (they do no harm, so there’s no need for expensive liability insurance), you probably won’t need health insurance to pay for their advice.