George Rebane
‘Don’t get sick’, that is how the liberals in Congress dismiss the conservative proposed alternatives to Obamacare. But that same advice should be given to all of us trying to avoid the ongoing swine flu epidemic. Getting vaccinated is a problem, because our country doesn’t have a timely supply of enough vaccine. I discussed why this is so (here) but am still puzzled as to why no one wants to talk about the recent history of on-shore vaccine manufacturing. It is a clear example of how government puts its own welfare, comfort, and security above and ahead of its citizens. Always has, always will.
Instead, the diversionary news items fill the airwaves. We are told of ‘old technologies’, ‘bad batches’, and ‘frustrated’ politicians. The real problem is that bad laws and policies were made about the nation’s emergency healthcare. After they were implemented, and when the mistakes became apparent, instead of making corrections, everyone got real quiet hoping that the problem would never come. Well, the problem came and now it’s CYA time on the hustings.
What makes revelation of our inadequate vaccine manufacturing capacity so explosive is that its cost in American lives is completely computable. Every passing week without a large-scale vaccination program underway increases the known mortality count. And that count can be laid at the feet of identifiable agents and agencies. Talk about fully functional death committees already in place and working.
Today in our own Nevada County, the Public Health Department tells us that supplies are “extremely limited”, but it has received a “small initial shipment” of the H1N1 vaccine. It is dispensing this according to CDC guidelines with no one above 8th grade in the general population getting the vaccine (see figure). Since the PHD has no knowledge of when additional or adequate supplies will be forthcoming, it simply does not talk about it. So the question continues to go begging.
We are reminded that this is an example of the healthcare tragedy now hanging over us all as our government prepares to force Obamacare on the nation. And even if you stay healthy, the economic ruin it will unleash on the land will make you sick. But that’s another untold story.
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