GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING: Healthcare Workers Fired for Failing to Get Flu Vaccinations

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Healthcare Workers Fired for Failing to Get Flu Vaccinations

A person is vaccinated against the flu

Six people in Indiana have been fired from a hospital over the flu shot.

The hospital’s parent company is mandating workers get the vaccine, saying the health and safety of its patients is the top priority.

“I am not a troublemaker,” fired Oncology nurse Joyce Gingrich explains. “I feel like I’m a good nurse. And unfortunately, the hospital is losing some good nurses.”

Two other employees quit because they didn’t want the shot.

The hospital did allow some exemptions for people with allergies or religious beliefs against getting the vaccine.

This isn’t the first instance of healthcare workers’ freedoms being stripped away; whole states are now attempting to force healthcare workers to get vaccinated.

A Cincinnati-based health system reportedly fired 150 of its 10,800 employees because they would not get vaccinated against the flu.

Citing patient and staff protection, the company sent termination notices to the employees just ahead of Thanksgiving. If they agree to get a flu shot (which are offered at no cost) by December 3, the employees will get to keep their jobs.

Rhode Island passed the first-ever full mandate requiring all healthcare employees (including doctors, nurses, and even temporary workers and medical volunteers) to receive a flu vaccine. Colorado’s state health board approved a similar mandate seven-to-one this past February that would force all health organizations such as hospitals and nursing homes to prove at least 60 percent of their employees received a flu vaccination in 2012-2013; the requirement will increase to 90 percent by 2014-2015.

A similar flu shot mandate bill has been introduced in California. Healthcare staff in the California cities of San Francisco and Santa Clara are already required to take the shot; if they refuse, they must wear a mask at all times while at work.

In most cases, the only way for a healthcare worker to refuse a flu shot is on the basis of provable “medical grounds.”

According to the National Vaccine Information Center, there are eight types of commercially available flu vaccines which contain a wide array of potentially harmful ingredients: everything from toxic thimerosol (mercury) which has been shown to cause neurological disorders, to the funeral home preservative formaldehyde, to the food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG). One flu vaccine study even found that only 1.5 out of every 100 people inoculated derive any actual benefit from the annual injection.

As it is impossible to predict which flu viruses will hit in a given season, so-called experts have to chose which strains to use in the year’s round of vaccinations months in advance for on-time production and delivery. This means that, out of hundreds of strains, scientists have to pick a few and hope their supposedly educated guess is correct.

Because flu vaccines have been shown to cause severe reactions such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome and seizures, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides website visitors with a link to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program where anyone injured by the flu shot can file a claim. World-leading immunogeneticist Dr. Hugh Fudenberg even found that people who receive five flu shots over the course of their lifetimes have a ten times greater chance of developing Alzheimer’s Disease.

The CDC has determined that anywhere between 3,000 and 49,000 flu-associated deaths occur in the U.S. each year. As the 2012 U.S. population sits at approximately 314 million people, this means that as an American, you have between a 0.001 and 0.02 percent chance of dying from the flu. In 2009, deliberate N1H1 virus fearmongering by the World Health Organization and the mainstream media led to billions in Big Pharma vaccine profits on a shot that hadn’t even been sufficiently tested for safety or effectiveness.

In addition, the CDC hosts a webpage titled, “Pregnant Women Need a Flu Shot!” urging soon-to-be moms to get vaccinated against the flu, and yet, elsewhere on the CDC’s site it warns that children younger than six months of age should not get a flu shot. How an inoculation that is not deemed safe enough for a newborn infant can somehow be considered perfectly safe for a still-developing fetus is not explained.

The government spends millions subsidizing the vaccine industry each year. As potentially dangerous shots are pushed on the public in the name of crony capitalism, more and more healthcare workers are being told what they have to put in their bodies, despite all the evidence that it is more harmful than helpful, and whether they like it or not.

Citing reasons of public safety and personal responsibility, how long before states begin to consider or even attempt to require everyone – not just healthcare workers – to get an annual flu shot? (Source)