Smallpox Compensation Proposed

washingtonpost.com ^ | Thursday, March 6, 2003 | Ceci Connolly

[Paleo Conservative]

The Bush administration, seeking to rescue its foundering smallpox immunization campaign, has agreed to a limited compensation package for medical personnel and emergency responders who are injured by the vaccine, health officials said yesterday.

After months of pressure, the administration acquiesced to demands from unions, hospitals and public health departments in the hope that providing financial protection for the nation's front line against bioterrorism would entice skeptical health care workers to be immunized.

The decision to provide disability and death benefits comes when just 12,404 health care workers have answered President Bush's call for 500,000 volunteers to be vaccinated. Hundreds of hospitals have refused to participate.

"This removes the concern that a lot of people had, and we would expect that the numbers of people that would be vaccinated would increase," said Jerome Hauer, acting assistant secretary for public health emergency preparedness at the Department of Health and Human Services. "This would provide them the level of comfort they need in the very small likelihood of an adverse event."

[Beck_isright]

So if you're unable to walk or speak properly after getting the shot, does this mean you get the $250,000 only that he proposes? Hell, that's a great trade off. Where do I go to get crippled? </already wounded vet bitching about not getting crap sarcasm off

[Paleo Conservative]

No, this vaccine can have serious even lethal side effects. Fortunately the groups of people at risk are pretty well known. Follow this link to a later thread I posted to see a comprehensive list of those who should not take the traditional vaccine except under emergency conditions. "Govt. Devotes $20 Million to Safer Smallpox Vaccine"

[Beck_isright]

Oh, I'm quite aware of it. They wanted some of us in the Armed Forces to take this crap years ago "voluntarily". I was among those that elected the bullet in the head option. This is absurd. This vaccine is not needed here. What is needed is letting the CIA and DOD do their jobs overseas until all of our enemies are dead. Then smallpox will be back in the lab and not the Iraqi, Iranian, Libyan, North Korean, Chicom, etc. labs either.

[Paleo Conservative]

What is needed is letting the CIA and DOD do their jobs overseas until all of our enemies are dead. Then smallpox will be back in the lab and not the Iraqi, Iranian, Libyan, North Korean, Chicom, etc. labs either.

How are we supposed to find and destroy all existing samples of smallpox? All it takes is a tiny sample and a freezer to supply seed stock for a bioweapons program. The low cost of bioweapons is precisely the reason the Nixon administraion was very enthusiastic about the treaties restricting biological and chemical weapons. President Nixon understood that we should make weapons of mass destruction expensive to keep them out to the hands of rogue nations and terrorist organizations.

[Beck_isright]

" How are we supposed to find and destroy all existing samples of smallpox?"

Honestly speaking, I think Pandora's Box has been opened. It's not possible. We no longer live in our parent's world of the 40's and 50's. We and those who are still around now live in the future that many have speculated about, and dreaded.

[Paleo Conservative]

We no longer live in our parent's world of the 40's and 50's.

Unfortunately the Soviet Union in the 1950s did not live in our parents interpretation of the world either. The Soviet Union first proposted erradicating smallpox in the late 1950s. Their intentions were not all honorable. The main reason for erradicating smallpox was to get governments around the world to stop vaccinating allowing their citizens to become more and more vulnerable to a smallpox attack, each year.

[Beck_isright]

Sadly, smallpox is the least of our worries if you ask me. I feel that that will be the first scare, followed by VX and other nerve agents. I think I liked having a nuclear stalemate more, warped as they may sound.

[Free the USA]

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[bonesmccoy]

Dear "Beck..",

Your interpretation regarding cowpox immunization is downright wrong. If the smallpox is out of the lab (as you have acknowledged as a possibility), then immunization is the best way to eliminate this threat.

The fact that you didn't want this tried and tested vaccine is your issue.

Thankfully, it is not the opinion of the WH/POTUS.

The WH/POTUS is correct in attempting to protect the interests of all healthcare workers and first responders and military personnel from this threat.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks Doc!

This is just more BS from the Gay Agenda group at the Washington Post and other left wing fishwraps. They want to endanger all of our health care people by these Bravo Sierra non issues. This is due to the damaged immune systems of the gays and the gay agenda people in America.

CDC and most county and state health systems are infested with the same PC agenda pushers. They push their self serving agenda re no vacinnation at the risk of all of those who are our front line health professionals.