Glenn E. says:

First the banks get a bail out. Then the auto makers get a no interest loan. Then “cash for clunker” helps out the ailing car dealers. And not it’s sounds like a “vouchers for vaccines” is coming along. Since when does the Gov. get involved in the flu vaccine biz? Since the Gov. is their number one contractor, when it comes to buying the stuff for distribution to all US military personnel. And they’ll be the earliest to be dosed. And NO records of bad reactions will be kept. As per agreement with the vaccine makers, to they can get a crack at the public market, before any word of mouth kills their sales. And perhaps the Gov. will just come to their financial rescue, anyway. Since most cash strapped Americans may decide to risk not getting shots for new flu strain. I’ve not had a single one since, 1979. That’s when I left the US military service, and it’s medical guinea pig program. Dosing soldiers, against their wishes, is how the vaccine makers get their testing data. The low initial vaccine distribution to the public, is probably just an excuse to test it out on the service personnel first. It’s probably going on right now!

Is it ironic how Congress can’t decide on any kind of National (Public?) Health Care system? Or reforms of the messed up private one that exists today? But they can approve of funds to save the vaccine industry, easily enough. And I think this is a huge scare story, to do just that. Because it has to be the most amazing coincidence that the H1N1 flu showed up, just after the economy started seriously hurting. People losing their jobs, taking local vacations. And yet, somehow this virus spread all over the world from Mexico, in very little time. Did it have some help, on purpose?

This and other Gov. funded programs are all about protecting the bottom line of the major stockholders and CEOs, who have the ear of Congress. Stocks in Banking, Auto Sales, and the Medical industry, have benefited. And these are all bandaid fixes for what’s really wrong with these. But if props up the old way they continue to do business, so their major stockholders can count on another year of profits. The Gov. ought to label these, “Bucks for Billionaires”, because that’s where it all eventually ends up.

Uncle Patso says:

I believe in vaccines. I have never had polio, smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus, etc. I plan to get both influenza vaccines when they are available.

ECA says:

#16
He still has 3 years.
He has to FORCE 300 others with political agendas to AGREE.
MOST of those people that protect this country signed a Verbal contract that they would NOT BE HELD responsible, for what those ABOVE them told them to do.
WHO that was hired for the JOB, in bushes TIME, is STILL in a responsible position??
IF’ blame is going to be PASSED around, Anyone involved is either going to Run and hide behind committees.. OR say “I did what I was told.”,”HE TOLD me to do it.”,”HE did it, not me.”

For the rest of you;

Lets see. the odds of the shot causing problems in EACH person is ??.
We know that its 0.57%(?) death rate in Nations that have CHEAP health care services.
Which would mean that about 1.5 million people COULD DIE.
Even if Adverse reactions in .01% of the population. 3,000,000 people would STILL be 300. or 1 in 10,000.

“Here are some historical reminders of past flu epidemics. They were all contrived and created in some hidden laboratory.

The vaccine used in the mandated 1976 supposed swine flu “epidemic” caused the deaths of 2,000 people before it was removed; and 4,000 filed injury law suits. Before that, it was the Salk polio vaccine, also fast-tracked with $9-million of tax-payer money, to inoculate 57-million Americans before it was even proved to be safe to use. And it wasn’t. African green monkey kidney tissue was used to grow the polio virus; and it proved to have long-term and deadly effects. In 1955, the “British Medical Journal warned against the used of the Salk polio vaccine.”(2) The warning, and there were others as well, was ignored. Before genetic engineering opened a Pandora’s Box, this vaccine “was an uncontrolled experiment in interspecies viral transmission.”(3) Long-term, but not known then (in the financial rush to get this vaccine produced), the use of this monkey’s tissue was to be the cause of cancers detected much later.”
http://www.rense.com/general86/dngers.htm

OK,
if this was a REAL problem.
Dont you think we would ALL be wearing Rubber suits and Face masks 2 months ago??

yup_thats_right says:

How many people have actually died from the Swine Flu? A few hundred? Tens of thousands of people die during every flu season. I have never seen such hysteria being promoted by the government, “health” care establishment and the corporatist media over ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. This is a totally bogus, hyper-inflated NOTHING obviously designed to make countless millions if not, billions, for drug manufacturers and increase the power of government. Didn’t you sad and pathetic dummies learn anything from the first “Swine Flu” nonsense that Gerald Ford and his cronies pushed in the 70’s? They try to pull this flim flam every generation or so. Maybe it’s good as it probably culls the dimmest bulbs from the herd.

deowll says:

There is of course some risk in not being vaccinated against the virus. I may already have some immunity and I’m going to let others play lab rat.