Posted on 08/30/2009 10:11:37 AM PDT by John Semmens
Fear that the coming flu season will be deadly has inspired several extreme measures aimed at controlling the spread of the virus.
The senate of Massachusetts has passed the so-called “Pandemic Response Bill.” Under the bill’s provisions, persons suspected of being infected may be interrogated and, if necessary, quarantined by state authorities “as they deem most conducive to protecting the collective health of the state’s inhabitants.”
The Massachusetts bill would also establish mandatory vaccinations and would impose fines of $1,000 per day and/or possible imprisonment for anyone who refuses to submit or to follow orders given by state-licensed law enforcement or medical personnel. Criticism that this bill tramples individual rights drew a sharp rebuke from sponsor, Senator Richard Moore. “No individual has the right to endanger the public’s health by refusing medications deemed necessary to protect that health,” Moore asserted. “If the government orders you to be inoculated, you will be inoculated, by force if necessary.”
At the national level, the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology warns that “as many as 90,000 of the sickest and most susceptible Americans may need to be aseptically euthanized in order to prevent these disease carriers from initiating a more widespread pandemic that could kill millions. Optimally, this would be carried out under the reforms written into the current health care bill. But the situation is so dire that a Presidential Executive Order may have to suffice until such authority is legislatively granted.”
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Yes, but I’m sure that they’ll do it in the nicest possible way...
/sarc
Flu vacinations mandated. Women, children and minorities hardest hit ....
I don’t get it. Where’s the satire? This is just normal news about Obama and the Dems. I must have missed something.
This was done in the late 50’s with the polio vaccinations. I believe these were also mandatory. I still remember my dad marching the entire family down to the Jr. College in Santa Ana and we were queued up to get a sugar cube w a vaccine.
If a national emergency is declared, the President does have the power stated in the Constitution to deal with it, no matter how unpopular it happens to be.
It is the flu. It is not Ebola. It is not AIDS. It is not cancer. It is the flu. People need to stop freaking out about it. Wow, the flu kills some people. Big deal. It is the flu. It is not the bubonic plague. It is not some super mega virus. It is simply a virulent strain of the flu. Everyone who is so paranoid about it is completely idiotic. Just like with SARS and Avian flu before that.
If all the people who want the inoculations are getting them, then how is it those who don’t are endangering anyone other than those who would rather take the risk? Totalitarian politicians don’t reason very well. Power makes them stupid.
I missed the satire too, until I decided to read a little further than the opening. Today’s satire is going to be tomorrow’s reality.
I am not a constitutional scholar, like your president, could you please cite for me the relevant passage(s)?
Gee....I wonder why they never did this with AIDS.../sarc
That was when the government wasn’t out to decimate the population.
I suspect many non-democrats will be “suspected” of having the flu... And disaappear into quarantine... Never to return
that’s how the USSR would handle it... Therefore I expect it here
Just the Reichstag fire that the Soviet Democrats need to increase their power.
“If a national emergency is declared, the President does have the power stated in the Constitution to deal with it, no matter how unpopular it happens to be.”
What part of the Constitution is that? The part that says they own us?
“its the flu”
perhaps you need to read up on some ‘flu’ history.
the ‘flu’ in a true pandemic can be extremely nasty.
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