Posted on 11/03/2009 3:09:53 AM PST by Scanian
The shortage of swine-flu vaccine results not from drug- company greed or outsize demand but almost entirely from the government's decision to pander to unfounded and unscientific fear.
As The Wall Street Journal reported last week, the US government set out to have the H1N1 vaccine produced largely in single-dose syringes -- a demand that has set back production considerably, because multidose vials are far easier to make.
And the only reason to seek single-dose production was to please people needlessly worried about the preservative thimerasol, which is used to provide multiple doses of the vaccine. The fear -- utterly groundless and repeatedly debunked is that thimerasol can cause autism and other neurological disorders in infants and other young children.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I call BS. This is manufactured and I can guarantee there is an adequate supply for those deemed “important”. We, the cake eaters... How dare they let people die while they go on a world tour and feast.
There fixed it.
either way this plays out this is a preview of Obamacare.
Really? So the government wants to "please" people...
Uh, I think that pretty much is what the article is saying.
thimerasol is 50% mercury. that cannot be good for your body. and they use it only to save costs.
Of course 0bama made sure there was enough for the detainees at Club Gitmo.
Oh I agree, and I think the gov’t knows how bad it is and doesn’t want any liability for what it may/may not do to us but more importantly to our children.
Just the fact that they removed it from other vaccines speaks volumes.
They don’t care so much about “pleasing” as they do covering their own butts.
And the amount of thimerasol in the vaccine is minute (in the range of 1-10 ppm). Once diluted in the body, its effect is negligible. The autism connection has been examined repeatedly, and found to be nonexistent.
ALAR all over again.
This guy doesn’t make sense. Number one, the first vaccine to be distributed was the mist...and it doesn’t contain thimerasol. Number two, some H1N1 shots are being produced w/out thimerasol, but not all.
I really didn’t understand what he was ranting about, and he didn’t have his facts straight.
nd finally as one
Obama himself may as well be administering the vaccine as far as I'm concerned.
Hmmmmm.....”promulgated” ... I must be channeling Henry Kissinger this morning!
I agree, it’s all BS. Ginned up hype to create a demand for a questionable, possibly dangerous untested vaccination, which in the end will do more harm than good. One wonders if the intent is to cripple the population to the point where there’s another health care crisis created as a result of it. Don’t put anything beyond a Communist regime like the one running the US....for the moment...
Hey c’mon guys how could you all let this one slip by?
BUSH’S FAULT!!!
If it's been removed then why are they still blaming Thimerisol for Autism?
Why You Can’t Get Flu Vaccine
1) We are giving it prisoners in Guantanamo Bay
2) We are giving 10% of the deliveries to foreign nations under a UN program
3) It is being run by the gov’t
Yet, despite this technological ability to adapt quickly to a pandemic threat, our system has been hamstrung by pseudoscience evangelists
I’m not a scientist and don’t pretend to be one. I don’t have any answers on any of it, only opinions. I’m not convinced on the thimerasol/autism link..... there’s still too many questions for me. The only continual link I could even vaguely imagine is perhaps mothers that took vaccines with Thimerasol sometime in their lives passed it through to their babies...???
Autism is real, we all know that. Could it be that it’s in the genes? Some children are more susceptible to chemicals than others? Is that why some children/adults who get the H1N1 die and others get a mild case?
Can research be done about the differences in our ancestry and race to determine who might be more at risk without a backlash of “racism” or “genocide” being thrown around? Is it even possible? Didn’t research confirm red headed people are harder to “put under” or “numb up” for medical/dental procedures? What about the RH factor test?
If I had to venture a guess, I’d say it’s in the genes... but then again, I’m no scientist.
:O)
there’s lots of killer chemicals in the flu shots.
Personally I think they were found out and had to make up another batch, not as deadly. imho
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