Professor, USC Marshall School, and author of The Secret Handshake and Childhood Denied
Posted: October 27, 2009 09:07 PM
This time labels won't cut it. My three children and perhaps yours are smack-dab in the middle of the high-risk group, and we keep watching people on television lined up to get the H1N1 flu shot wondering where those fortunate people live. Where most of us live you know that H1N1 is a national emergency, but there's nothing you can do about it. The vaccine is always coming next week. You know that they don't want to close the schools until so many people are sick that education is nearly impossible. Okay, I guess. But, what they don't know is where you can get your kids, and yourselves, into a line that actually leads to prevention.
Now, if this doesn't remind you of the government's inept Hurricane Katrina response where people desperate for water and help waited, waited and waited, then you must have been born in the last few years.
The head of the CDC, Thomas Frieden, has apologized. He says he "shares" our frustration. Is that what he was doing in August when he downplayed flu fears? And why was the White House not on that problem right away given that its own report contradicted this view?
The apology is disingenuous and doesn't mean beans to parents wondering if their child is going to be one of the unfortunate who, for some as yet unknown reason, has a violent reaction to H1N1. And why are we in the dark? And why is that acceptable?
Have members of Congress gotten H1N1 shots or sprays yet? Have their families? Well, what about yours and mine? If it's a national emergency and an informed hospital health care worker I overhead talking today is right, that most of the flu we're now seeing is H1N1 and the severity of the threat is being understated, then what is going on?
Is this the same government that wants us to believe that we need to send thousands of troops to Afghanistan? If they can't even get flu shots to kids in danger at home, then what makes us think these geniuses know what they're doing there either? Once again are their kids being protected and ours not?
We're in a national emergency and most of us are seeing squat when it comes to a national response.
There is no excuse for this. No apology makes it acceptable. If we don't see action now, then we need new people in government, a new party to run against the two bought and sold ones. As we can see this time, and there will be other times, they don't protect our children until they're good and ready to get around to it. But they don't mind sending them half way around the world to make some generals happy, our president a "wartime" one, and some masters of the universe even more deliriously wealthy. If they want our trust, they can earn it.
Dr. Reardon also blogs at bardscove.
4 comments:
Hello. I would like to find out since you are a doctor why you are in favor of vaccine? I did check ingredients in the swine flu and do not want any part of it in my son's body or mine . I do have evidence what vaccines did to kids and autism is the result . No matter how much media and health officials would lie about it , the proof is available . It is just a matter of time to overturn the cover ups and real reasons will be the news one day . I would excpect the doctors to stop lying and start talking about treatments which could reverse the damages . I hope you as a doctor know of their existance .
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Commonground
Dear Commonground, I have to agree with "Anonymous". Although you didn't write the article yourself, you have reposted it without any additional comment concerning the HOURD of people (many of whom are also physicians) who believe the vaccine is at least as dangerous as the mysterious (and bio-engineered) H1N1 virus. You seem to have fallen into the propaganda pit opened by WHO, CDC, big pharma, and of course, the corrupt governments of the world. You aren't spreading information, you are spreading ignorance.
"Although you didn't write the article yourself, you have reposted it without any additional comment concerning the HOURD of people (many of whom are also physicians) who believe the vaccine is at least as dangerous as the mysterious (and bio-engineered) H1N1 virus."....
Umm. Not my job to comment. I don't have an agenda.
"You seem to have fallen into the propaganda pit opened by WHO, CDC, big pharma, and of course, the corrupt governments of the world."
I can not cover a world-wide pandemic. Way too much information out there for just one person to cover. I have reduced my information to cover mutations, rapid deaths/rapid transmissions, and any major announcements from the Government of the USA. I can choose to post Editorials, or any differential stories from time to time, that's the glory of running a blog. There are many blogs across the internet that will fulfill your needs. This is not the one.
"You aren't spreading information, you are spreading ignorance."
I report you decide. I believe my readers are able to come to their own conclusions.
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