Public Education, H1N1 Vaccines, and Disaster
WHAT KIND OF NATION ARE WE BEGINNING TO BUILD HERE?!? A child in the NYC public school system has had an adverse reaction to the H1N1 vaccine because a couple of public employees mistakenly gave the child the vaccine without parental permission. Yes folks – it DID happen here. As a matter of fact, 3 children in that school system were given the vaccine without signed parental consent.
From the NY Daily News:
School nurses mistakenly gave the swine flu vaccine to two students who didn’t sign up for it – including a Brooklyn girl with epilepsy who wound up in the hospital.
Officials at Public School 335 in Crown Heights called an ambulance to take Nikiyah to SUNY Downstate Medical Center when she fell ill following the arm jab.
The snafu and a similar mixup at a Staten Island school came in the first days of the city’s in-school H1N1 vaccination program.
City officials have stressed the vaccine is safe and urged parents to sign up for it – though less than half have sent in permission slips.
What about the 3rd child I mentioned? Also from the NY Daily News…
Officials admitted on Friday that a third student was mistakenly given the swine flu vaccine – an error the school nurses union blamed on the city.
Why of course the school nurses union blamed it on the city. After all, the nurse was too busy to check the student’s identification against the list of permission slips prior to injecting the child with a potentially dangerous concoction of chemicals. Why should a little thing called protocol be followed when there is so many children to vaccinate?
I have made it perfectly clear that I do not trust vaccines. I have also made it perfectly clear that I trust public school officials even less. It is my most honest opinion that combining the two is a dangerous prospect for children. But some bone-head in New York thought it was an excellent idea to use the public school setting to vaccinate children while at school. People, I’ve heard of some completely moronic ideas being born in the minds of educators in the past, but this has got to be the winner of asinine plays of the year. In large public school districts the potential for error is even greater and that is what I believe happened in this case. We have a case where an apathetic nurse stuck a kid without checking identification against her roster and the kid ends up in the hospital for it. And what really gets me is the nurse’s attempt to cover her ass.
From the first NY Daily News story…
Troy (the child’s mother) said the nurse – a Department of Health employee – tried to get her to sign a consent form, after the fact.
“I was insulted. I was really angry. ‘You just incriminated yourself even more,’” Troy recalled thinking.
“If they’d taken proper precautions in the school this never would have happened.”
If the nurse isn’t to blame, then why would she need this child’s parent to sign a permission slip AFTER the error had occurred? This is nothing more than a “I gotta cover my ass or I’m in BIG trouble” move.
As tragic as it would be if any child dies in connection with the H1N1 influenza virus, it is an even bigger tragedy if a child dies because of a bone-headed nurse jabbing them in the arm with a needle loaded with a chemical under the guise of protection from a virus that 99% of the population would weather with or without the vaccine.
People, there is an undeniable truth that is attached to all the many deaths attributed to the H1N1 virus and that is none of them died from the flu. They have all died due to pneumonia. Saying that H1N1 has killed x-number of people over a certain period is a falsehood. It is just as erroneous as continuing to call the virus swine flu.
However, there is a bigger picture that we are all missing attached to this case. It is the fact that public school educators have been on a mission to strip away from parents as many parental rights as possible for decades. It began with school lunches then migrated to breakfasts and has continued to grow from there. The number 1 reason given by Sec. of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has not called for a closing of schools known to be infected with H1N1 is the school breakfast program. She’s afraid if the children don’t go to school, they wouldn’t have an opportunity to eat. Since when is it the responsibility of the school to feed our kids?
Educators are in a better position to raise our children, didn’t you know? After all, they have the education to properly care for a child and you do not. Forget the hundreds of cases [annually] of teachers violating children sexually. Those are only isolated incidents, right?
I’m sorry, but I believe I know what’s best for my child. I also believe you know what’s best for yours. Just because some dolt had the tenacity to attend enough classes between joints to earn a degree in education does not mean they have any greater insight on how to raise a child than what nature instilled in all of us as human beings. It just means we trust our kids to a bunch of slackers who want their summers off.
I know it sounds as if I am condemning the entire teaching profession, but from my position that is the impression I have. I had more teachers during my time in school that moonlighted and used their summers not for furthering their education or even tutoring children who needed additional help. No, as a matter of fact, I remember one teacher in particular who used his summer off to drive a truck delivering soda to grocery stores. As a matter of fact, in the county where I grew up, our teachers were the highest paid public school employees.
Keep a few things in mind as you begin to crunch some numbers. The average teacher’s salary is now in the neighborhood of $50k per year. They spend 180 days in class. If you do the numbers you will find that they get approximately $277.78 per day in class. Somehow, I cannot believe all the bullshit that I grew up hearing about how teachers are underpaid any more. Especially if any of them uses their summer off to drive a truck and not better his education or help more kids.
I also don’t want to hear anything about how much teachers do outside of class to earn that salary either. For $277.78 a day they had better be working at minimum 12 hours a day! That in itself is over $22 an hour and there is no requirement to produce a quality product. Nope, it doesn’t matter at all if any of the children in their charge actually learns a single thing. The teacher will get paid anyway.
I digress.
As for vaccines themselves…
I would be willing to expose the most precious possession that I have to some of the most lethal chemicals known to man should the Secretary of Health and Human Services have the testicular fortitude to go on national television and inject each and every single chemical found in the H1N1 vaccine individually into her own system. But until then, I’m not going to allow anyone to inject my child with anything not absolutely medically necessary. And I don’t see this vaccine as being necessary.
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