Gov't To Force Experimental Flu Vaccine?

The government will have you believe that it cares more about your children than you do. Which is why it now wants to force American children to take a mandatory, experimental flu vaccine this fall.

According to a report in the Washington Post, government officials have said that school children will be the first in line to receive the first 100 million doses of the vaccine. The Obama administration is also ramping up efforts to make sure that another 300 million doses of the vaccine will be rolled out through various state and local agencies in short order.

The talk has raised worries among certain health activists and civil rights activists who are concerned about children being forced to take the shot because of a similar large scale vaccination program in 1976 to deal with another swine flu scare. That program caused over 500 cases of a paralyzing nerve disease and killed 30 people -- more deaths than from that year's flu.

When the editor of political blog PissedOffFormerDemocrat recently called Arkansas State Health Department officials to discuss vaccination refusal, he was told that "mandatory vaccinations" could take place in the future and that they would be "legal" and could be carried out "constitutionally", and that those who refuse could be "held liable". A recording of this conversation can be heard at DailyMotion.

Of interest is that fact the company which will manufacture the vaccination, Baxter, was recently caught shipping flu vaccine contaminated with a lethal strain of avian flu. Luckily, the tainted shipment was caught by random testing in Czechoslovakia where a number of ferrets that were given the vaccine died from the virus.

Yes, our government certainly cares about our children. Loves them enough to give them an experimental vaccine from a company known to make horrific quality control mistakes, just to tackle a flu strain which many experts say may be no more dangerous than the ordinary flu. But hey, let's not forget there's a lot of money to be made for our legislators who invest in big pharmaceutical companies.