A post by Pat
I thought Sanjay Gupta turned down the job as Surgeon General. Here he is with a thinly veiled pitch to sign up your kids to be guinea pigs for H1N1 swine flu vaccine tests.
Two adorable playful little boys, ostensibly of their own volition, decided to volunteer for the H1N1 vaccine tests. One boy says he wants to do this because a schoolmate died from another kind of flu and he wanted to prevent that as much as he could. Their mother, who coincidentally volunteered for a vaccine test in 1976, says she has complete trust in the people doing the study. The boys’ grandfather is a pediatrician and he’s all for it too. He wants to protect his family, his patients and the general health. The younger boy (what about 5 years old?) sagely tells us it is the right thing to do.
A caveat is added about informed consent at the end but it is after all for the betterment at large.
“…scientists say it’s extremely important they complete their pediatric trials so they have a proven vaccine to protect kids if the swine flu begins to spread rapidly in the united states”
…there have been rare situations of severe allergic reactions, as well. one of the terms they are hearing is a term called informed consent, that’s what you hear during a trial is that you’re consenting that we don’t know exactly how this is going to work, but we’re trying this out for, again for the betterment for the public at large
Blatant propaganda coming from CNN. What a shock. No overt suggestions, but a map of testing locations is informatively displayed.
Now aren’t you shamed into admitting it is your civic duty to sign up your kids as guinea pigs for hurried testing of a vaccine that may or may not prevent a mild flu?
I’ll never forget Michael Moore’s outburst live on CNN after a Sanjay Gupta report. I thought it was childish at the time but now it seems his skepticism might not have been misplaced after all. It’s also fascinating that CNN is going out of their way for the sake of phantom pandemic, while in 2004 it was all Bush’s fault that there supposedly wasn’t going to be enough flu shots for everyone. The Dems and the press were practically calling for impeachment hearings over it, but this time around Gupta seems all too eager to do the White House’s work.
Mengele.
in MA they’re deputizing anyone it seems who has ever used a knitting needle in case of pandemic- for a flu that’s not as serious as the usual yearly bug. because the sky will fall, there will be chaos in the streets and all that vaccine obama caged off the drug companies has to go somewhere.
http://tinyurl.com/qauggr
i keep getting whiffs of martial law- oh yes that would be a crisis alright….
Well, I’m kind of torn about the whole thing, though not about my kids being used as guinea pigs.
I’m torn about the Oink b/c it has been known to happen – it starts off mild and then turns deadly later on. I’d rather be prepared with proper vaccines than to assume it won’t be that bad, or to automatically assume a conspiracy theory of some sort. I’d rather be the ant, than the grasshopper, basically.
But what thierry says does resonate as well. It reminds me of the first X-Files movie when Martin Landau’s character explains to Mulder the basic workings and underlying reasons for FEMA – You create an “emergency” and then use FEMA to suspend Constitutional rights b/c of the “emergency”.
That scene has stuck with me for many years.
As has “Tremors” – “Eminent domain!”
But I don’t like to dwell too long on conspiracy theories b/c you could drive yourself nuts that way.
But I am always VIGILANT!