There was a slight lull in the drumbeat for the swine-flu campaign recently as the directors re-thought some of their plans, such as keeping schools open instead of closing them. But now the drive to implement the plans begins.
The media is playing their assigned role by pouring out the news-articles on the school vaccination program. The Associated Press on August 17 issued a long article on the plans in various school districts. For example, "In South Carolina 'there will be a massive [!!] attempt to use schools as vaccination centers,' said state Superintendent Jim Rex." (Rex, by the way, will be receiving a load of brownie points from the swine-flu campaign directors for his enthusiastic support of their plans.) [Emphasis added.]
Of interest: "Some big states, like California, Ohio and Massachusetts, are focusing on those [prevention] steps and not on vaccination, because they don't know how much vaccine the federal government will send or when it will arrive." This is a major screw-up by the national directors of this campaign. They failed to ensure that there would be enough vaccine to carry out their ambitious plans.
Also, "Boston has decided against in-school vaccinations because an attempt at regular winter flu inoculation at a middle school last year flopped..." The Boston experience will be repeated in many places this fall. It is an unusual administrative task to keep track of who has had what shots, etc., and most schools are ill-equipped to perform this task successfully. Another screw-up.
Critical commentators on this campaign are calling this 'voluntary' vaccination program mandatory. And that is exactly the intent of those planning these vaccinations.
Every one is getting in on the act. The National Association of County and City Heath Officials ran an online seminar last week on how to run school flu vaccinations.
The August 18 Wall Street Journal ran a large spread on page D1 on swine flu. Here' an important quote: "'What we are seeing looks very much like seasonal flu to far,' Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said earlier this month. Most people suffer unpleasant but not life-threatening symptoms such as fever, body aches, sore throat and runny nose." And so here we have the same old conundrum: why is an unprecedented vaccination campaign being organized for something that is not serious at all? Is there something else involved? Like a planned effort to train the public to accept inoculations without question.
Also, the WSJ, interestingly, reports a public concern about the safety of the vaccine. A well-founded concern, one might add. The testing of this vaccine is late and superficial. (Another screw-up by the directors.) Among the worries about the vaccine include actually getting the flu from the vaccine, the presence of thimerosal which contains mercury, and a side-effect of Guillain-Barre' Syndrome. Hundreds of people developed this side-effect in the 1976 vaccine campaign.
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny of the web site PandemicFluOnline.com recommends refusing the vaccination. She has a petition against the vaccine on her web site. Other material is also available.
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