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CO Hospital Employees Threatened w/ Firing If They Don't Get Flu Shot - OuttaMT
Posted: Oct 06, 2012
This makes me REALLY glad I am getting the hell out of health care!
These draconian measures are being implemented across the country. Most require that ALL employees -- even those who work off-site and have zero patient contact -- receive the toxic injection or they will lose their job.
Check out the comments. I was VERY heartened to see that the vast majority of them are by posters opposed to the mandate (several very educated MDs and RNs posting).
I think that this is a good thing. nm - oldtimer
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how is it a good thing - study up on those shots...
[ In Reply To ..]and what it does.
Agree innoculation with viruses can go bad - anon
[ In Reply To ..]Percentage is low, but it DOES happen especially when trying to produce them quickly. Look at the CDC website.
Also increasing # of hospitals that... - sm
[ In Reply To ..]won't hire tobacco users (smoking or chewing), and if caught, it's immediate termination.
Health issues - Anonymous too
[ In Reply To ..]Get over it, it's just a flu shot. You can get a note from your doctor excusing you, or from your pastor if you're doing it for religious reasons. For me, keeping my job would far outweigh complying with company policy and getting the shot. As far as smoking, the health risks are well documented for active and passive smokers, so don't even go there.
No old flu shot for me - anon
[ In Reply To ..]Hey if you all knew what was really in those flu shots you wouldn't get one either. There are toxic substances such as mercury in them and other things that can cause cancer. You had better ask to see what they put in the vaccine before you get it. I for one will never ever have a flu shot again. Oh ya, you will get the flu if you get one. Better off without it.
not only that, but you are not building up - own imunity by getting those
[ In Reply To ..]They keep coming up with new strains of the flu because of all these vaccinations... If you build up an immunity by not getting shots, you dont get sick like that.
I have never gotten a shot, and I never will.
You ARE building up your own immunity - Disgusted with pseudoscience
[ In Reply To ..]You cannot get the flu from the vaccine because it is a dead virus.
You do build up your own immune system because the vaccine contains virus. No difference between exposure to live or dead virus in that respect.
It is completely ludicrous to say that you do not get sick if you do not get vaccines. Look up the flu pandemics that occurred before the vaccine was developed, especially the horrendous death toll from the one in 1918.
The new strains of flu have nothing to do with vaccinations. The viruses just mutate on their own. Same way they have always ensured their survival in a population where anyone left alive has immunity.
I do not care tht you do not get flu shots, but you have no business providing misinformation to induce others to follow you.
Flu shots - Anonymous too
[ In Reply To ..]You are misinformed. Flu shots do not give people the flu as they do not use a live virus. I've gotten one every year for at least 10 years and have never gotten the flu. In older adults, upper respiratory infections can lead to pneumonia, and those complications can and do kill people. Whoever administers the flu shot provides an ingredients list as well as informed consent and I have never seen mercury listed. Thimerosal is used as a preservative but you'll find that in a lot of products, it's also such a small dose that I doubt if it's very toxic. The choice is yours; don't get one and lose your job get fired. You might be pleasantly surprised when you don't get sick.
Think Again! - read...
[ In Reply To ..]10 reasons the flu shot is more dangerous than the flu. (bewellbuzz dot com)
The verdict is out on flu shots. Many medical experts now agree it is more important to protect yourself and your family from the flu vaccine than the flu itself. Let̢۪s take a look at the reasons behind this verdict:
1.) There is a total lack of real evidence that young children even benefit from flu shots. A systematic review of 51 studies involving 260,000 children age 6 to 23 months found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo. Also the shots are only able to protect against certain strains of the virus, which means that if you come into contact with a different strain of virus you will still get the flu.
2.) Medical journals have published thousands of articles revealing that injecting vaccines can actually lead to serious health problems including harmful immunological responses and a host of other infections. This further increases the body̢۪s susceptibility to the diseases that the vaccine was supposed to protect against.
3.) Ever noticed how vaccinated children within days or few weeks develop runny noses, pneumonia, ear infections and bronchiolitis? The reason is the flu virus introduced in their bodies which creates these symptoms. It also indicates immuno-suppression i.e. lowering of the immunity. The flu vaccines actually do not immunize but sensitize the body against the virus.
4.) Its a known fact that Flu vaccines contain strains of the flu virus along with other ingredients. Now think about the impact such a vaccine can have over someone with a suppressed immune system? If you have a disease that is already lowering your body̢۪s ability to fight a virus, taking the flu shot will put your body in danger of getting the full effects of the flu and make you more susceptible to pneumonia and other contagious diseases.
5.) The Flu vaccines contain mercury, a heavy metal known to be hazardous for human health. The amount of mercury contained in a multi-dose flu shot is much higher than the maximum allowable daily exposure limit. Mercury toxicity can cause memory loss, depression, ADD, oral health problems, digestive imbalances, respiratory problems, cardiovascular diseases and many more such serious health ailments.
And what about the elderly? Can the flu vaccine help them?
6.) There is mounting evidence that flu shots can cause Alzheimer̢۪s disease. One report shows that people who received the flu vaccine each year for 3 to 5 years had a 10-fold greater chance of developing Alzheimer̢۪s disease than people who did not have any flu shots. Also with age the immune system weakens, thus lowering your ability to fight off infections. Introducing the flu virus in the bodies of elderly could have dangerous consequences.
Can we trust the authorities who are promoting the wide-spread use of flu vaccines?
7.) The Center for Disease Control appoints a 15-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This committee is responsible for deciding who should be vaccinated each year. Almost all the ACIP have a financial interest in immunizations. It̢۪s all about the money and may have very little to do with your health and well being. The very people pushing these vaccines stand to make billions of dollars. This itself creates a doubt on how effective these flu vaccines really are?
8.) Research shows that over-use of the flu-vaccine and drugs like Tamiflu and Relenza can actually alter flu viruses and cause them to mutate into a more deadly strain. Couple this with drug resistant strains and you have virtually no benefits with much risk.
9.) There is enough evidence that shows that the ingredients present in the flu vaccinations can actually cause serious neurological disorders. In the 1976 swine flu outbreak, many who got the flu shots developed permanent nerve damage. Flu vaccines can contain many harmful materials including detergent, mercury, formaldehyde, and strains of live flu virus. Is this what you want to put in YOUR body?
10.) Trying to guess what strain to vaccinate against each season has proved to be no more effective than a guessing game. This has been very true in recent years with the H1N1 strain. Moreover getting multi-shots will only prove more dangerous as different strains of viruses and harmful ingredients are introduced into your body.
Flu shots are indeed more dangerous than you could think, and it is best to rely on natural ways to protect against the flu rather than getting yourself vaccinated.
Isn̢۪t it interesting that the main stream public health officials never promote the various proven ways to avoid the flu other than through vaccination? How about spending some of the billions of advertising dollars teaching us natural ways to boost our immune systems and avoid the flu without harmful and sometimes deadly vaccinations.
Did you refuse polio vaccine as well? - Anonymoust too
[ In Reply To ..]What about DPT, measles and rubella? Those vaccines probably also carried risks (and probably contained preservatives), but the public health issues were far greater. We had a pertussis outbreak in our state in the last few months. Babies died because they were exposed to health care workers who were carriers and did not get vaccinated. Elderly people die from complications of the flu, so do people with compromised immune systems. I really don't understand all the fuss, you probably don't even work for an employer who requires it. To me, it seems you're more concerned with your civil rights being violated than you are with your health.
You are Correct! - anon
[ In Reply To ..]I sure am more concerned about my civil rights being violated!! Can't believe you're not either, but I guess there's no helping some people.
No - Anonymous too
[ In Reply To ..]I'm an advocate of flu shots. I'm more concerned about my health and the health of my co-workers. I'd never put my job on the line over something as trivial as that. Remember that if you get fired and try to find another job, that little tidbit of information will go with you and you may never get rehired.
Thimerosal is an organic mercury - read up
[ In Reply To ..]Thimerosal is an organic mercury compound that is metabolized to ethylmercury and thiosalicylate (Institute of Medicine, 2001).
So? - anon
[ In Reply To ..]It's still mercury. I'd rather Not have that injected into my body thank you.
that is what i was telling the other poster - still mercury
[ In Reply To ..]they just try to hide it with a different name
Please do some research - Anonymous too
[ In Reply To ..]Thimerosal was an issue in pediatric flu vaccines, not adult, and it is not used in single vial dosage containers at all. Again, the amount you would be receiving in a single dose is minimal. It may cause a local skin reaction but that is probably about it. I used contact lens solution in the past that was preserved with thimerosal. I was allergic to that but have no problem with flu shots. It seems to me that there is a lot of over reacting going on here, and people jumping to conclusions without knowing the whole story. Do what you want, no one can force you. It is your choice whether you want your employment terminated over something like this. Where I work, it is encouraged for everyone to have a flu shot. However, employees who refuse are required to sign a waiver and attend in service continuing education classes.
so get the preservative-free vaccine. - NM
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Well - no flu shot for me
[ In Reply To ..]I have never had the flu shot and haven't had the flu in 10 years either.
Did you read - Reader
[ In Reply To ..]The religious exemption is much more difficult to get lately and will eventually be phased out. In order to get a medical exemption you need to have a documented egg allergy. Both of these points were raised in the comments.
Go ahead and inject toxic mercury, aluminum, squalene, etc. into your body. Remember, you CANNOT sue big pharma for any injuries from the shot.
It wasn't called "mad hatter's disease" for no reason.
Not always true. - anon
[ In Reply To ..]There have been several policies proposed where religious/medical exemptions were NOT considered.
My large city's largest hospital group will no longer - hire smokers. n.m.
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This is rather old - but still interesting
[ In Reply To ..]I don't think the flu shot should be mandated... and neither does the ACLU...
http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/nyclu-urges-public-education-and-voluntary-vaccine-h1n1-flu-warns-vaccine-man
I'd be contacting them and a lawyer were I in this situation!
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