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Obama’s Swine Flu Altruism
The Atlas Society - The Center for Objectivism ^ | 10/28/2009 | Edward Hudgins

Posted on 10/29/2009 6:50:25 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins

The morally ugly nature of actual altruism was on display when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently declared that one in ten doses of the Swine Flu vaccine that were purchased with American taxpayer dollars will be given to other countries before there is enough vaccine to cover the health needs of Americans. She explained that “There’s an agreement (on a) ten percent donation that eleven nations have made.” Once 40 million doses have been produced and distributed in the United States, then ten percent of what’s produced will be donated even as the U.S. government waits for the rest of the 250 million doses it ordered to treat 307 million Americans.

Thus there might well be Americans who, thanks to the U.S. government, will not have access to the vaccine when they need it and could get sick or die.

I have a modest proposal: no Obama administration appointee, administration supporter in Congress, their media flacks, nor any of their wives, husbands, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, brothers, or sisters should be allowed to have a vaccination. How does self-sacrifice feel now?

Let’s dissect the carcass of a philosophy that keeps arising, zombie-like, in monstrous decisions such as this one from the Obama administration.

Shot in the arm for government

The first problem is that the U.S. government shouldn’t be providing such vaccines to begin with. Already the government is behind schedule in getting out enough doses to meet the demand for the vaccine. Long lines for flu shots are a preview of what we can expect from Obama-care. Of course, if the government were not controlling distribution, we wouldn’t have the problem of an Obama apparatchik giving away some of the medicine that we paid for to non-Americans first.

But given the fact that the federal government…

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: altruism; healthcare; obama; swineflu; traitor; treason

1 posted on 10/29/2009 6:50:25 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins
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To: Ed Hudgins

Can you imagine the hell that would have rained down on Bush if he had handled the H1N1 program like this? Where is the rage at the Obama administration? We are suppose to forget this because bubba is out playing golf every day?


2 posted on 10/29/2009 7:00:51 AM PDT by charles1252
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To: Ed Hudgins
Now that H1N1 is spreading, is there any indication of how deadly it is compared to the normal seasonal flu? I expect that it is more contagious since fewer people have immunity, but how deadly is it really?

I ask because I would like to figure out number of vaccines given away to foreign countries times infection rate times death rate to calculate the number of Americans expected to die for Obama's altruism, and then compare that to the numbers of dead in the current war which the Dems' screamed about constantly and demanded that we stop interfering in foreign countries.

3 posted on 10/29/2009 7:01:19 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Soon everyone will win a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush...well, except for George Bush.)
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To: Ed Hudgins
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4 posted on 10/29/2009 7:13:19 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Ed Hudgins

She said donated.

DONATED.

Not bad enough that 10% of the vlu shots needed by US citizens dissappears, but somebody is paying for them and that someone is us.

Donated.


5 posted on 10/29/2009 7:15:53 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Ed Hudgins

FLU SHOT SHORTAGE SHOWS GOVT. INCOMPETENCE
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on October 28, 2009

How can the government pretend that it can manage, overhaul, streamline, and reform the health care system in the United States when it can’t even deliver enough flu shots to prevent a pandemic?

We have seen the H1N1 virus coming for over a year. It is no surprise that much of America needs vaccination. It was no secret that the flu season was approaching. But, now that it is upon us, we find ourselves pathetically short of shots.

One year ago, the government told us that we would have hundreds of millions of vaccinations available. Then, over the summer, the prediction was that 40 million would be on hand by the end of October.

Last month, the estimate was scaled back to 28 million. And, as of late last week, only 11.5 million had been delivered, leaving tens of millions vulnerable and, tragically, likely leading to hundreds of preventable deaths. Given the tendency of the virus to strike the young, many of those deaths will be among children.

It should be a fairly simple task to produce and distribute a vaccine - as we do with regular flu shots each and every year. But it was apparently beyond the capacity of the Obama Administration to manage such a routine feat.

If it can’t run the epidemiological equivalent of a two-car funeral, how can Obama promise that the government will do an adequate job of managing the nation’s health care system? (To say nothing of two car companies and a trove of banks and insurance firms?)

In the debate over health care, the implicit assumption has been that the government can act with competence and timeliness. The discussion has largely centered on what powers to give the government - not on whether it had the ability to wield this new authority. The bill making its way through Congress empowers the federal government to decide on protocols of health care, penalize excessive costs, and moderate reimbursement fees. These are all difficult and delicate tasks and involve decision which must be made promptly and wisely for the system to have a chance of working. Otherwise, endless delays, bottlenecks, and snafus can eventuate. And these failures can have drastic consequences for the health of all Americans.

Do we really have confidence in government’s ability to make these decisions? Does its manifest inability to protect us from the Swine Flu do anything to inspire such confidence?

Not so far!

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6 posted on 10/29/2009 7:15:55 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Ed Hudgins

Suppose the whole H1N1 thing went down like this:
Gov’t Lab: Hey our military weapons grade swine flu sample was stolen by terrorists
Gov’t Official: Don’t tell anyone. We’ll fix it.
To Vaccine Lab: Here’s a sample, how soon can you make an antidote.
Vaccine Lab: a few months, but it won’t work that well. This is a weapons grade virus, some people will die.
Gov’t Official: Don’t worry, we’ll skip the FDA stuff, pass a law so you don’t get sued.
Official to FDA: Waive the testing and approve this vaccine.
FDA: OK, wilco.
Gov’t Official to Public: Your kids will get their swine flu shots in school and if we have some left over, you can have some too. It is perfectly safe.
Gov’t Official to President: We fixed the terror attack and kept the casualties down to only a few thousand people.
Prez: What terror attack? Can they still vote? Have ACORN register them just in case.


7 posted on 10/29/2009 7:24:23 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Ali Obama and the 40 Czars must FAIL.)
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To: Venturer
For leftists, “donated” often means taking someone else's money, giving it to someone to whom it doesn't belong, and then taking credit for an act of charity that such leftists don’t deserve. (That is, the entire welfare state!)
8 posted on 10/29/2009 7:24:26 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins (Rand fan)
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To: Ed Hudgins

This is government run health care on display!!


9 posted on 10/29/2009 7:25:13 AM PDT by blastdad51 (Typical middle-aged white patriot.)
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To: Ed Hudgins
Anybody know WHICH 11 countries get the freebies? Just curious ...
10 posted on 10/29/2009 7:30:19 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Tunehead54

I hope everyonewho voted for obama is given the flu shot, and all others shot free.
Man what a dream.


11 posted on 10/29/2009 8:00:05 AM PDT by manonCANAL
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To: Tunehead54

LET ME GUESS.

Cuba
Venezuela
Lebanon
Pakistan
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
......


12 posted on 10/29/2009 8:01:16 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Navy Mom)
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To: manonCANAL
This is treason against the American people, pure and simple.

Heads should roll over this, but with the complacency of the American people (Still!) I doubt anyone will get too upset. After all, Walmart has big screen TVs on sale.

13 posted on 10/29/2009 8:10:33 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns
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To: blastdad51

Rahm: “Never let a crisis go to waste.”


14 posted on 10/29/2009 8:12:29 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Tunehead54
Anybody know WHICH 11 countries get the freebies? Just curious .

There are 11 nations that are producing the H1N1 vaccine (the US is one) that have agreed to donate 10% of their stock to developing countries. The recipients are many, the donors are the 11.

15 posted on 10/29/2009 8:13:25 AM PDT by Between the Lines (For their sins of 50 million abortions God gave them over to be an ObamaNation {Romans 1:24-32})
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To: Between the Lines

I see that now in this article - others were less clear - Thanks! ;-)


16 posted on 10/29/2009 8:42:21 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: BuffaloJack

Vaccine Lab to FDA: Lucy, you are gonna hold that football, right?


17 posted on 10/29/2009 9:32:47 AM PDT by Darth Reardon (Im running for the US Senate for a simple reason, I want to win a Nobel Peace Prize - Rubio)
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