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Health Care Workers Protest Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine
By TARYN FITSIK
www.Wten.com

26th September 2009

SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The New York State Department of Health has made the influenza vaccine mandatory for all health care workers who come into contact with patients.

Once the H1N1 vaccine becomes available, it will also be mandated.

However, some local healthcare workers are outraged with the news.

Judy McQueen, has been a registered nurse for 40 years, and currently works part-time at Saratoga Hospital. She says she does not plan on getting either shot, even if it jeopardizes her job.

"We are on a slippery slope, by being mandated and told by our state and our government what we need to do to our bodies, in order to have a job," says McQueen.

However, McQueen says her argument is with the state, not her hospital.

According to the New York State Commissioner of Health, Richard Daines, the welfare of patients, is without any doubt, best served by the very high rates of staff immunity that can "only" be achieved with mandatory influenza vaccination.

But McQueen says she and other healthcare workers constantly take precautions to keep patients safe, and feels getting the shots will compromise her own safety.

"It hasn't been tested enough to know what the ramifications of getting this are," says McQueen.

Also troubling her is what will happen to her job if she refuses to get the vaccines.

According to the state, the health department does not mandate how the mandate is to be enforced, only that it must be enforced.

In an employee forum recently held at Saratoga Hospital, McQueen says she was told if she does not abide by the mandate, she cannot come back to work.

In a statement, Saratoga Hospital says, "We did not mandate this. It came from the state. We are just doing our best to abide by the state mandate. The hospital has not decided as to what will transpire for employees who opt to not have the flu shot. Firing was never mentioned."

However, McQueen says she is not giving up her fight.

"I'm keeping on, because this isn't over yet," says McQueen. "I want to peacefully resolve this."

On Tuesday, September 29th, there will be a healthcare workers rally in the East Capitol Park in Albany, to protest the required vaccines.

Link to this posting: http://www.wten.com/global/story.asp?s=11201036

COMMENTS (Copied/Pasted From http://www.wten.com/global/story.asp?s=11201036 As Of 3rd October 2009 7.11pm Sydney Australia Eastern Standard Time)

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Guest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuhzrrp-WFQ
25,000 times the mercury level in the swine flu shot, what a joke

Saturday, 26 September 2009, 9:03:25 AM

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Rennie

Possible Allergic Reactions To The Flu Vaccine

Another point in this debate is that many people are allergic to the flu vaccines which are available. According to my physician, this flu vaccine (and all others) are prepared in an incubation container with a base of "chicken eggs." Anyone who is allergic to "chicken eggs" cannot take the flu shot because of possible adverse or even fatal reactions to the "chicken egg" base of the vaccine.

Is the State prepared to take responsibility for a certain percentage of health care workers who might not be able to tolerate such vaccines without serious risk to their health due to the possibility of serious or fatal allergic reactions to the vaccine preparation? What if a person dies as a result of a vaccine which they are "forced" to take? And if a person refuses to take the vaccine for this reason will they lose their job in order to protect their life? Is this America? -- Is this the land of the free? What have we become?

Saturday, 26 September 2009, 10:03:16 AM

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Guest

I have been researching the whole Swine Flu/Vaccine business for over a month- take heed do not take the shot . There is no pandemic ! And the vaccine is designed to cull the population by 50%. Go to http://theflucase.com/ http://medicalvoices.org/en/vaccination/articles/what-to-do-if-you-are-f... http:naturalnews.com/026503_pandemic_swine_flu_bioterrorism.html to name just a few, for more info.

Sunday, 27 September 2009, 7:30:07 AM

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Guest

I am no longer a health care worker and I am thankful at this time due to this mandate. the health officials need there asses beat since they miraculously counted themselves out of the mandate. they dont have to take the shots they're forcing others to take. I too have never and will never have a flu shot and can understand others not wanting to. the H1N1 vaccine is new and not well tested. they just threw it out there. I am for the people when I say DON'T TAKE THEM and FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS

Saturday, 26 September 2009, 11:37:24 PM

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Guest

Being both an EMS worker and someone who is also employed by a local hospital, this new law frustrates me. Like Judy, we in the hospital have been told that we need to have this vaccination by a certain date, or we will not be permitted to come to work. Those who are pregnant or nursing are also told they MUST receive this vaccination.

However, why should I be forced to take a drug that will most likely cause me to be sick? Because a law says so? What about the people who have worked around patients for many years and have developed their own anti bodies to "the flu" and other diseases. I have been on the job for more than six years and am proud to say have not had a single sick day.

As an EMS worker, I go into nursing homes, and people's houses, which may or may not facilitate the growth of disease. Will I be expected to enter that person's house in a plastic bubble? I think we need to highly encourage our medical staff to get the vaccination, not mandate it.

Saturday, 26 September 2009, 11:44:32 AM

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Guest

Ive been a healthcare worker for 36 yrs. never had a flu vaccine and never will. ive many reasons for this, multiple allergies, other reactions, no patient contact, and the philosophy of belief that no one should mandate anything which might cause harm,,or not!

Saturday, 26 September 2009, 11:25:20 AM

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Joan

From what I have read, there is no recourse should something bad happen to you after you submit to this vaccine. By Executive Order of President Barack Obama you cannot sue the pharmaceutical companies or the government. The chances for something bad happening are HUGE based on the last swine flu vaccine from the 70's. There were about 5,000 people who were disabled by that swine flu vaccination.

There is no guarantee that a vaccine will even prevent you from getting the flu.

Finally making the drug mandatory is a violation of your civil rights specifically Article IV of the Bill of Rights. The right of the people to be secure in their PERSONS.....shall not be violated.

Saturday, 26 September 2009, 10:44:51 AM

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Guest

What is upsetting to me, as a health care provider, is that prior to treating my patients (I'm a physical therapist.) I give to each patient and they sign that they receive, a patient bill of rights which allows them to refuse treatment. How is it that the healthcare provider is not given the same right. This is my body and I choose it's medical interventions, not the State. Who is next...teachers, waitstaff, crossing guards. This is a very slippery slope. I'll wear a mask and gloves for protection but not receive the injection. Looks like I'll be trying to find another job come November 30th.

Sunday, 27 September 2009, 8:46:51 AM

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Guest

Why doesn't the Big Pharma, government, WHO and Health Officials take the vaccine FIRST and prove to us that it's safe? The fact that they are refusing to take it should send a Red Flag Alert to the most media-downloaded and saturated sheeple who normally believe what they hear on televised (government controlled) "news".

Sunday, 27 September 2009, 8:44:45 AM

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Guest

Another thing to consider is that as a woman who has children, I know that when pregnant in the past my doctors would not even allow me to take an aspirin, much less an antibiotic or a vaccine!! Now all of a sudden, they are "targeting" pregnant women for the UNTESTED H1N1 vaccine, which I've read contains mercury, squalene, formaldeyde (used to embalm CORPSES), and diseased green monkey liver among other elements of what sounds like a witches brew to me. So now, all of a sudden, it is "safe" to give pregnant women an untested vaccine for an unknown flu virus??? Hello Common Sense....is anybody home?? As a serious, cross-carrying follower of Jesus Christ (not a phony churchian), I can't help but be reminded of the following Scripture: "But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!" Matthew 24:19

Sunday, 27 September 2009, 8:27:18 AM

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Mark in Nebraska

Thats because they know it will do the most damage. This is the worst kind of evil............ Methiolate was outlawed as too dangerous, but inject mercury is no problem? Yeah right, and sharks can fly too............

3 days ago, 7:26:07 AM

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Guest

Problem: Lab-mad Swine Flu released in Mexico. Reaction: Manufactured "Pandemic" via WHO. Solution: 2008 patented Baxter Pharma H1N1 "Mandatory" Vaccine.

All of the above = Eugenics. (Population reduction and control).

Sunday, 27 September 2009, 8:14:51 AM

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Guest

I'm terrified about having to get the H1N1 shot. It needs to be tested first for everyones safety. It could do more harm than good. Something needs to happen soon! We healthcare workers need to come up with something to stop this!! Yell

5 days ago, 2:38:50 AM

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Guest

NOTICE: if you are feeling down and kind of edgy, do this:

"click on the Spanish Heritage icon advertising on the right of the article:.

I did it a few days ago and had a hell of a time, trying to find out how to remove it nad put my computer back and set the way it was before clicking it" It was like a freaken virus, on this "south American made computer"!

I think it was a set-up!

AND "we don't need no stinking icons"!
Over and said with emphasis: Yell

5 days ago, 1:48:23 AM

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Guest

Stand your ground. If there is more mercury in the shot than other kinds, then shoot them words back! If you have to wait until you see the white of their eyes and if eyes are rolling too, give them an ear full! Don't let them get to you or get a word in edge-wise. Fight them face to face and word for word. Use both rolling eyes, facial expressions, and had gestures, too, to overcome their repulsive rants of "get in line your turn is coming"!

If all else fails, say the immortal words in unison and loudly:

"WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING SWINE FLU SHOT"!

YEAH! YEAH YEAH!

Yell Yell Yell Yell Yell Yell Yell Yell Yell

"A friendly message from your friendly instigator"

5 days ago, 1:41:10 AM

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Guest

I agree with Judy McQueen and there are others who stand by her statements. The moment someone attempts to distribute a vaccine into me, I now become a patient. The last time I checked patients had a thing called the Patients Bill Of Rights and in there it states a patient has a right to refuse. To add, aren't we in America? Hmm this mandate sounds a bit communist to me.

5 days ago, 1:16:51 AM

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Guest

Here's an idea...Just go to your PMD.. State that you had a serious reaction the scrambled eggs you had eaten earlier in the week..You had swelling in the lips and tongue.. your face became red and you started sweating.. Looks like a allergy to eggs... hence a risk to the shot.. Then they cannot make you take it...

Sunday, 27 September 2009, 11:53:56 AM

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Guest

I think Ms. McQueen is well within her right to refuse the mandate and keep her job. The vaccine mandate is a violation to human rights and the need for vaccines is speculative at best, not to mention the poor track record vaccines have in this country. The media conveniently chooses to ignore its international partners and their approach to vaccines in general. This American hypocrisy needs to stop. The vaccine itself is destructive to the immune system. Its efficacy is unproven.
-Eric S

5 days ago, 1:07:15 PM

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Guest

this is how it starts inch by inch our civil liberties are being stripped away until the police come knocking on our doors, dragging us out our homes forcing us to comply with state mandates.

5 days ago, 12:40:34 PM

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Guest

For the past 2 years the hospital where I work have been twisting our arms to take the flu shot...I did not anticipate the day in this "FREE COUNTRY" when I would be mandated to do so. This is only a test run on how people react to loosing their basic rights. Today it's the flu vaccine...tomorrow who knows!!!

5 days ago, 12:07:19 PM

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Guest

Stick that shot inside gov pattersons ass, and others in power. Lets do a wait a see.

Mercury as a preservative? other chemicals ?

So fucking glad I live in the EU, where the vaccine here isn't containing agents that can kill a lab rat 15 times out of 4.

5 days ago, 8:25:54 AM

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Guest

I fully support NY healthcare workers' right to choose what is injected into their own bodies. I pray you guys will stick together and vote with your feet if they threaten your job. There are still other states in the union that have a respect for the Bill of Rights and are in desperate need of healthcare personnel. Good luck. My thoughts are with you.

5 days ago, 5:29:03 AM

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Guest

Does anyone know what time the protest in Albany is today?????
It is so frightening that our government is mandating a vaccine that hasn't been thoroughly tested and the Swine Flu vaccine back in 1976 has been linked to Guillai-Barre Syndrome.

Since there are so many sources of news out there these days it is difficult to know what the truth is. I just read an article on Alex Jones' website that indicated the UK gov't and the US gov't issued a confidential memo to neurologists to look for an increase in neurological symptoms from the H1N1 vaccine.

Also, according his website:
Reuters reports that public health officials, “Expect an avalanche of so-called adverse event reports, which are reports of death, illness or other health trauma that occur within two weeks after receiving treatment — in this case, the swine flu vaccine,” in reaction to an estimated “one million heart attacks, 700,000 strokes and 900,000 miscarriages.”

4 days ago, 10:30:57 PM

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Guest

The claim is that the vaccination is safe, but this isn't credible considering it hasn't been properly tested for humans. The government has also removed all liability from the producer of this vaccination which is completely irresponsible. I wonder how many medical people will be unlawfully removed from their jobs before the medical facilities are crippled? I'm grateful that the health care workers are making their stand.

4 days ago, 10:22:28 PM

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Guest

This "so called" pandemic is a farce to put it plainly. The swine flue is no worse a threat than the yearly influenza. I'm proud to see people standing up for their rights against this money making scheme. Mercury is not good for humans.

4 days ago, 10:08:33 PM

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Guest

It is the health care worker's right to decide.
Any of them want to post their opinion, please visit my H1N1 forum
http://thintheherd.info/index.php?board=48.0

4 days ago, 1:39:19 PM

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Guest

Good for her! Hold your ground! This State needs ALL elected officials to be defeated so true reform can occur. This is the only way that the civilians can 'take back' government that has run amok. Daines is well intentioned, but just doesn't get it.... Just like the soda tax that won't curb obesity but will take money out of the pockets of children... Daines should be thrown out!

4 days ago, 2:08:26 AM

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Guest

I plan to refuse the vaccination as well. I haven't chosen to be vaccinated in the past for the flu and I, too, have been quite healthy. The manufacturers being granted immunity in the event of adverse reactions is insane. So we must be vaccinated to protect our patients but have no recourse if we become ill from this not-yet-fully tested vaccine. I also agree with the earlier post, NYS hasn't felt a real shortage in nursing yet. Whether or not one CHOOSES to receive the vaccine isn't the only issue; government forced vaccination doesn't belong in a democratic state. If you feel strongly about this topic, don't back down. There is power in numbers!!!

3 days ago, 6:10:03 AM

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Mark in Nebraska

Amen to that Guest!

3 days ago, 7:17:07 AM

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Nurse

I hope you nurses stick together and fight this. No one should be forced to take a medicine/vaccine that they don't want, Also I want FDA to post whats in the shot. They wont because they know if they did, not even the 1% of the mindless people would take it. Keep people dumb to get what you want. Say NO SHOT, You Choose, NOT THEM.

3 days ago, 5:54:56 AM

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Guest

It is a proud time to be able to be among other people who are concerned for health issues, and to put them into words.

3 days ago, 1:40:16 AM

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Guest

I am a nurse in upstate ny and I am NOT getting the flu shot. I have not gotten one in 10 years and that is MY choice. I take all universal precautions to take DAMN good care of my patients. The commissioner is implying that it is our duty to put this vaccine (that was whipped up in about 3-4months) in our body because as health care providers that is what is right for the patient??? huh is he serious? If he wants to get a flu shot more power to him however he should not dictate what I should put into my body!! And we think the nursing shortage is a crisis now ooohh just wait!!!

4 days ago, 11:47:06 PM

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julie
I am a nurse, I will not be bullied by the state or federal government to take a medication that I do not want! That is a choice I can make for myself and with my own doctor. We do not FORCE our patients to take medication they do not want nor shall we be FORCED. We will stand and fight this together! We can wear a mask while we are at work if they are that concerned of patient safety. DON'T TREAD ON ME!

3 days ago, 1:39:29 PM

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Guest

I am not opposed to vaccines and as a health care worker I voluntarily receive an annual flu vaccine. However, I do so knowing the risks include rash, fever, chills, localized neuro muscular damage (if injected incorrectly), allergic reaction including death, and the debilitating Guillian Barre syndrome. These are known but rare risks associated with the vaccine. The H1N1 vaccine is new. We have no research to determine what if any long term affects it has or what % of the population will be affected by its side affects. I am currently reading up on the information to make a responsible decision. I am just grateful I live in a state where I have a choice and my job security is not a factor in my decision making process. The H1N1 virus is proving to be less deadly than the actual annual influenza yet fear and panic, not intelligent decision making is resulting in legislature that infringes on health care workers rights. I believe the vaccine should be made available to the general population and let each person choose between the risks of the vaccine and the risks of the illness. I hope NY health care workers win their battle. Stand united and strong!

3 days ago, 11:27:52 AM

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Guest

I hope they don't

2 days ago, 12:09:49 PM

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Mark in Nebraska

You go health care workers and others! Stand up to these morons at the state and local levels! We are behind you 100%! If you don't stand together they will attempt to control every facet of life, they control too many already as it is. This is nothing but an attack by big Pharma, government out of control and population control people. It's too bad the hospital is too gutless to help out. No job is better than an autoimmune disease or death. Saratoga hospital, you need to stand behind the employees who have stood behind you! Help them out already!

3 days ago, 7:15:23 AM

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Joanne

Those who mandate the vaccine should be the first to receive the vaccine. If after a couple of weeks and no problems then the vaccine should be optional for those who desire it. This is a big brother future, glimpses of Obamacare and Soylent Green roled into one.

3 days ago, 6:45:41 AM

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Anna

Hello Taryn,

My name is Anna. I am currently working for a credit union. Recently, I was told by my brother-in-law, who is really obsessed with the new order or the end of the world, that a new regulation should come into school regulations as far as the immunization for the H1N1 and that it will be mandatory. I do not agree. I just found some information on the net, just as I found yours, that the FACT SHEET ON MANDATORY VACCINES offers lot of information regarding the government and FDIC on hiding risks information and exposures to any types of vaccines.

I know that just for your protection maybe you should wear a mask although it may be uncomfortable, but you never know "who carries what types of bacteria", but the question of losing your job over the shot should not come into place. You are right, it's taking away your right of freedom. One of the reasons why we came to this country.

I don't visit this site, it's my first time so if you like to give your perspectives on my comments please email me at amisek2 @ yahoo.com

Regards and good luck

Anna

Today, 1:31:25 PM

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Michigan chiropractor

There is research proving that there are serious health risks to both vaccines. It is an outrage that the government thinks that they can tell us that we have to do anything to our bodies. Contact the state chiropractic association and go to www.icpa4kids.org for more information.

2 days ago, 7:04:53 AM

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Justin

Dear people who relate this to Obamacare,

You are extremely ignorant. Maybe you should crawl back into your hole and suck on the teet of Fox News a little more.

2 days ago, 5:56:56 AM

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Amaka

Exactly. I have taken all types types of vaccines in the past; measles, MMR, Hep B, yellowfever etc... yet my gut tells me not to take this one and so I am willing and ready to forgo my job. My hospital is one of the main ones threatening job loss and I only hope others will wake up and realize that if we all take this then it becomes the beginning of many more evils with our choice over our body and medications.

A patient of mine refused the flu shot yesterday and no big deal about so are we longer human beings that we are not allowed to refuse medications?

Watch out Teachers, Transit workers, etc In NYC because the mandate is coming to you next year if they succeed now!!!!!

2 days ago, 5:11:52 AM

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Guest

and you would be foolish to forgo your job and put the general public at risk.. thanks for your ignorance and putting the rest of us in harms way.

2 days ago, 12:08:42 PM

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