CDC Panel Rejects Voluntary Smallpox Vaccination

Associated Press ^ | 6/20/02 | Erin McClam

[tellw]

Our family pediatrician and I are contacting lawyers to see about filing a lawsuit against the CDC over this. If this plan is adopted, it is a violation of the equal protection clause. Why should some classes of people be allowed to protect themselves and not others, now that we have enough vaccine for the entire population??

[Shermy]

What's the money interest behind this game? Back thirty years and so ago people were routinely vaccinated.

[Mitchell]

Can something like this be formulated as a class-action lawsuit? (Can the class be the entire population of the U.S.?) And would there be an advantage in doing so?

[StriperSniper]

Depopulation of all those the 'elites' don't need.

/tinfoil

[Shermy]

About 300 people would die from side effects if the whole nation were vaccinated, experts have said.

Assume true. How many people die of side effects from other vaccines routinely given today?

[Shermy]

LOL!

Seriously, I'd like to see how many of these "experts" are affiliated with HMOs. Let's say 100 million vaccinations at $10 a pop for drugs and doctor time - $1 billion.

Standard MO of HMOs.

[yikes]

I can understand why you would sue the CDC. It needs a huge wakeup call from a legal two by four. However, I have read, and this article so states, that the vaccine can cause serious, even fatal, side effects.

If Iraq or other countries have the capability to introduce the smallpox virus into this country, this decision and its public announcement will embolden them even more. We would be sitting ducks for a smallpox epidemic.

[Centurion2000]

Count me in for the class-action lawsuit as well. The bureaucratic idiots at the CDC are putting mine and my FAMILY's life at risk.

I'll pay for the vaccination, but I have NO WISH to be dependent upon a government agency in case of a pox outbreak.

[Centurion2000]

We would be sitting ducks for a smallpox epidemic.

We already are, this new policy simply announces it far and wide to the rest of the world.

[goody2shooz]

This decision by the CDC is outrageous. I've already contacted both my Senators and member of Congress over this issue.

In the event of an attack against our nation, troop mobility will be paramount. That alone should be reason enough for a national vaccination campaign. A widely spread bioweapon attack is no doubt a part of the plans formulated by Al Qaeda and others. The idea of containment during a national crisis is laughable.

The anthrax caused deaths among postal workers is the result of the CDC in action when the government was hit with a bioweapon attack. The little people, the American working class, dies while the elite are covered. I have no trust in the CDC. Surely they and all their family members are vaccinated against smallpox.

Some Americans don't want to be vaccinated. That is their choice and not some bureaucrat's mandate. Prevention of terrorism must be our goal. The threatened use of smallpox against Americans is just that, the naked threat of terror.

I read somewhere, I believe NewsMax was the source, that the number of people who might die from the complications of smallpox vaccine is equal to the number of Americans killed every minute and thirty seconds on our highways, approximately 300 lives. The number who could die in a smallpox terror attack against an unvaccinated public numbered around a million lives. Big, big difference.

[StriperSniper]

how many of these "experts" are affiliated with HMOs.

Even if none, I'm sure their (the HMOs) lobbyists were heard from.

[goody2shooz]

The total number who would die from complications due to smallpox vaccine is estimated as equal to the number who die every 1-1/2 minutes on our highways. The number of deaths estimated in an all-out smallpox bioweapon attack is around one million!! There is a very, very big difference between the two, right?

I think the benefits out weigh the risks.

[NetValue]

" Our family pediatrician and I are contacting lawyers to see about filing a lawsuit against the CDC over this."

Yes! Absolutely right! What arrogance.

[Jhoffa_]

Do you and your friends plan to bring the whole bed into court, or does the court already equiped with furnishings to hide under?

[StriperSniper]

Some Americans don't want to be vaccinated.

I'm one, I'll take my chances on my old one unless the pox is found real close to me.

That is their choice and not some bureaucrat's mandate.

Unless they want you to have it. Refuse, they throw you in jail, they vaccinate you there for 'safty' reasons (you can't infect the other felons), and don't worry you will be a felon if you refuse the orders of the 'masters'. If it comes to that, whoever tries it on me will regret the attempt, they will have to vaccinate a corpse (among several that will be found there ;-)

[tellw]

Do you and your friends plan to bring the whole bed into court, or does the court already equiped with furnishings to hide under?

Hey if there's a smallpox attack and you want to be quarantined until the feds make it around to you, that's your choice. As for me I'd rather get the protection now.

[Jhoffa_]

Well, since there is no domestic smalpox outbreak I am not worried about it.

I am not worried about anthrax either..

I mean, if you want to worry then the possibilities are absolutely limitless. Me? I will wait till there is a need and a specific threat before I get concerned.

[Jhoffa_]

I will add a caveat..

If YOU want to go to YOUR doctor.. and PAY, YOURSELF for a smallpox vaccination..

Then fine. I think that's fair.

[Askel5]

/tinfoil

This hardly seems necessary in light of GOP-mandated population control policies as well as a sitting US Vice President (Gore's) speaking at a closed conference on Depopulation.

President Bush recently has made the critical admission that humans are responsible for global warming and greenhouse gases.

Unless -- in this ONE instance that is the almighty Environment -- the Gore-bachev crowd of former Soviets, former Democrats and assorted recycled Reds do not intend to follow through as planned, the Fun should begin any time now.