Saturday, September 05, 2009
Riled
Ok, my friend Kristine just emailed me and told me that, apparently, all over Facebook, people are placing the following on their “status” page:
“No one
should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one
should go broke because they get sick.” If you agree, please post
this as your status for the next 24 hours.”
You fucking ignorant waffle iron twats!
First of all, allow me to share what my friend said about THAT little message:
"Everyone wants to scream that everyone should have access to doctors. Well, they do right now. (E/Rs) can’t deny anyone (stabilizing) treatment. But honestly, there is affordable heath insurance out there right now. People just don’t feel like spending $50-$200 a month to pay for it. But it beats the $50,000 bill you could end up with!
....I can say that even when I was in college and before (husband) joined the navy, we paid for insurance. Could we afford it? No more than we could auto insurance. But we had to have that too! I see it as one in the same. You can’t drive your car without insurance....so what makes you think you can walk around town possibly endangering other people with a communicable disease without it?
People who honestly can’t afford car insurance ride a bus. People who honestly can’t afford health insurance should have help. But not everyone. You and I and our taxes should not pay for Johnny down the street who would rather spend that money on a big screen tv.
That’s only part of the problem with national healthcare. My biggest problem with national healthcare, you insipid yeast infections is this:
National health care is allowing the government to decide who the hell lives and who the hell dies. I’d rather take my fucking chances and pay a little out of my own pocket. And if they would allow competition, it could be affordable!
“No one should have to die because they can’t afford health insurance.”
NO, BITCH! No one should have to die because the government thinks they are wasting space and costing too much money. No one should have to be told, by the government, how to live their every day lives.
I don’t want national healthcare because I don’t want the government to decide for me how to live my life and when my life will end.
Let’s take the case of swine flu. Now, the media has been doing a bang up job of fear mongering by hyping up the swine flu in the past months. I know you’ve heard someone say “Oh God, I hope I don’t have the swine flu!” when they start to feel a little under the weather.
Sigh.
From the CDC, here are the symptoms of the “Swine Flu”
The symptoms of 2009 H1N1 flu virus in people include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. A significant number of people who have been infected with this virus also have reported diarrhea and vomiting."
Wow. That sounds just like.....the FLU!
Severe illnesses and death has occurred as a result of illness associated with this virus.
OH MY GOD! We’re DOOMED! Help! It’s a pandemic! AAaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAaaaaAAaaAAAAAaaaaaAAAaaaa!!!!!!!
Shut. The fuck. Up. Now listen:
How severe is illness associated with 2009 H1N1 flu virus?
Illness with the new H1N1 virus has ranged from mild to severe. While most people who have been sick have recovered without needing medical treatment, hospitalizations and deaths from infection with this virus have occurred.
In seasonal flu, certain people are at “high risk” of serious complications. This includes people 65 years and older, children younger than five years old, pregnant women, and people of any age with certain chronic medical conditions. About 70 percent of people who have been hospitalized with this 2009 H1N1 virus have had one or more medical conditions previously recognized as placing people at “high risk” of serious seasonal flu-related complications. This includes pregnancy, diabetes, heart disease, asthma and kidney disease.
You know, just like...the FLU!
One thing that appears to be different from seasonal influenza is that adults older than 64 years do not yet appear to be at increased risk of 2009 H1N1-related complications thus far. CDC laboratory studies have shown that no children and very few adults younger than 60 years old have existing antibody to 2009 H1N1 flu virus; however, about one-third of adults older than 60 may have antibodies against this virus."
Well! Then we better vaccinate those school children! In fact, one state has already decided to do so. In fact, the Governor has declared a civil emergency due to H1N1 virus. Civil emergency! Those are scary words! Civil emergency because of the swine flu! People have died! Oh my God! What are we going to do? Let’s panic!
Gov. John Baldacci on Tuesday declared a statewide civil emergency because of the H1N1 influenza virus, paving the way for mass immunization of Maine schoolchildren and other residents.
To some people, this sounds reasonable. Why, it sounds as if the government is out to protect us, doesn’t it? Think of the chilllllllllldren!
Think agaaaaaaiiiiin:
The emergency designation protects schools and health care providers against liability claims related to their participation in school-based vaccine clinics this fall for both the seasonal flu and the H1N1 flu.
Whoops! What was that? Why on earth would they need to protect anyone from liability if the vaccine is to help people, namely, our chilllllllldren? Why on EARTH would that be? HMMMM!
Let’s go back to the CDC:
There is no vaccine available right now to protect against 2009 H1N1 virus. However, a 2009 H1N1 vaccine is currently in production and may be ready for the public in the fall.
That was written on August 5th of 2009. Exactly one month ago. ONE. MONTH. So, where oh where is Maine getting it’s mass vaccination stash from? It has been said, Baxter International. And what do we know about Baxter International?
Click this link: Criminal Charges Against Baxter
Whenever I see, hear or read anything anymore, I always ask, “Who benefits from this?” Ask yourselves, kids, who might benefit from claiming that the swine flu is dangerous enough to declare a civil emergency and that all kids should be vaccinated with a vaccine that has not been thoroughly tested and is made by a company with such charges against it. Just who might benefit here?
And isn’t it interesting that the makers of the vaccine are reported to be saying that they will not take it and are urging their family and friends not to take it. But they’ll use it on the public. Nice.
Oh and speaking of quarantine, why don’t you chomp on this for awhile:
MA Pandemic Bill allows Police to enter homes, Detain Without warrant.
Kids. If you do not know your rights, I suggest you brush up on them now and quick. It is against your rights for the police to enter your home without a warrant. And to detain you after doing so? Oh hell no.
A “pandemic response bill” currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance.
If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.
Please tell me you comprehended what you read. Please tell me you are outraged and disgusted that our government would try to do that to us. They work for us, we do not work for them. Oh, and your pets aren’t safe in that bill either. Why yes, you probably should read the whole thing.
Now. Let’s put all of this together with what I was saying earlier about why I do not want national healthcare. We don’t even have national healthcare at this time but states are already acting in the manner of which I spoke. Or wrote, whatever.
So maybe I’m not too far off the mark here. Do you really want to give the government the control over your life? Do you really want them to smash through your door, taking you away, conducting tests on you, your family, your family pets, placing you in to quarantine or, if you resist, throwing you in jail and fining you all because they THINK you might have something?
Remember Salem? Witches? Ever had a dispute with a neighbor or co-worker? They used the government then to rid themselves of people they didn’t like....is all I’m saying. The government should not have this kind of control.
And giving untested vaccines to children? Good God. Who does that sound like? Think back. It wasn’t too long ago. I’ll give you a few hints: Hitler, Germany, experiments.
Where would some of those quarantine sites be held? Oh, I don’t know...Florida....Iowa…
Orders (link to .pdf in site)
Look, I really don’t like conspiracy theorists any more than the next person. I would like to be proven wrong but damnit, fucking MA is trying to pass a bill through the House to allow them to barge in and take you away under the guise of “pandemic response”. What the fuck am I expected to think here? The Governor in Maine has the audacity to declare a civil emergency over the mother fucking flu!
The flu, people.
Here’s how you prevent yourself from getting the flu:
WASH YOUR HANDS!
And if you have the damn flu, here’s how to STOP spreading it around:
Stop coughing and sneezing and hacking all over every body. Use some damn common sense and decency. Get a fucking Kleenex, cover your mouth, stay the fuck home if you are sick and WASH YOUR HANDS!
Have I made this clear to anyone, here, why I do not want government run health care? Is anyone out there confused? And if you are....seriously? REALLY? You don’t understand? If that is the case, my advice to you is scroll back to the top of this page and start all over.
And if you make it all the way to the end again and still don’t understand, then hop on over to this site:
Flu.gov Yes, that’s right. Flu. Dot. GOV. It’s your “ One-stop access to U.S. Government H1N1, avian and pandemic flu information.”
Do you get it now?
I know what some of you are going to say: “But Serenity, there’s always been mandatory vaccinations and there’s always been an act that allows states and federal government to quarantine those they fear are spreading diseases.”
I understand that. (For those who don’t, you can read this: CRS Report For Congress) Typically those were put in place to help prevent diseases from foreign countries...sure, we don’t need another Black Plague on our hands, I get that. But for the flu? The fricken flu? Some people are calling the swine flu a pandemic. Since when is 8842 people, (as of August 2009), a pandemic? There have been 555 deaths. (Please note, this includes the US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa, NOT just the United States.) Currently there are 307,370,662 people in the United States, let alone the population in those other countries. Also please note, this is for flu like illnesses, not necessarily JUST the “swine flu”. And finally, please note that the numbers are lower for 2008-09 than they were in 2007-08. But Maine wants to declare a civil emergency and MA wants to push through a “pandemic response” bill. All of a sudden.
You know, when a certain dictator is trying to push through his national health care plan.
Pscht! No reason to wonder or worry at all. As one person said in comments on the Maine story:
“It’s only a shower”. ~ Concentration Camp Guard
