There is just one serious possibility for limited immunity from the Avian flu (H5N1). Almost nobody has any resistance to it whatsoever, which strongly contributes to its sky high 60% mortality rate (6 in 10 who catch the disease die).
That limited immunity might exist if people get two vaccination exposures to non-pathogenic H5N1 strains, so that their immune systems can learn to adapt at least partially to this alien and murderous virus.
That is, you have to be vaccinated for any old version of H5N1 once, and let your immune system adapt. And then there has to be a second vaccination of a different, generic strain.
Importantly, this will NOT protect you from the disease, just make it less likely that you will die from it, because it is no longer totally alien to your immune system.
If this technique is proven, then ALL school children must get this two vaccination process. NO exceptions. Not for religion, fear of autism or other side effects.
For this reason, if not by State or federal law, than by presidential executive order in time of martial law.
Where has H5N1 been a problem?
Would children be the only ones to get this Avian flu vaccine? What about the elderly?
That's presuming that there are no cases where people only had mild cases if it and didn't know it.
Are you saying that they tested EVERYBODY to find out if they were exposed to it? Or only those who were sick enough to require medical treatment?
Keep your big government, Big Brother hands to yourself.
If you like communism so much, move to a country where they like to tell people how to live. But not here.
For this reason, if not by State or federal law, than by presidential executive order in time of martial law.
Make sure there's enough for everyone? Yes.
Strongly encourage everyone to get it? Yes.
Mandate it by executive order by declaring martial law? NO!
If people refuse to get the vaccine, let them sign off responsibility for the consequences indicating that they know the risks and are willing to take them.
But do NOT require the force of law to herd people into vaccinations that they do not want, or may not need.
By the time it's obvious that it's needed, people will be infected and dying. You'll be able to prevent some deaths by inoculating after the epidemic starts.
The only way to prevent an epidemic is to force inoculation before the virus is a threat. That means that you have to be sure that it WILL hit the US and it WILL spread and cause an epidemic.
So force people to take the risks of side effects when there is not even any proof that the virus WILL hit? Then who's going to take responsibility for the side effects? The government who forced people to get a vaccine that they didn't need?
Just how do you propose to enforce this mandatory vaccination and when? Armed police coming to your door and forcing you to the doctors office under threat of jail time or being shot if you don't?
Will they physically drag you off? Or hold you down while the accompanying doctor injects you in your own home?