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NJ requires flu shots for preschoolers (socialized medicine - no shot - no preschool)
San Luis Obispo ^
| 12/14/07
| LINDA A. JOHNSON
Posted on 12/14/2007 3:55:42 PM PST by Libloather
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Can't wait for the gubmint to take over the whole system...
New Jersey: No Flu Shots, No Preschool
ABC News - 1 hour, 54 minutes ago
Some parents oppose the state's mandate -- the first of its kind in the nation.
To: Libloather
All your children are belong to us.
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posted on
12/14/2007 3:57:45 PM PST
by
Lexington Green
(Not one dime to Hollywood traitors)
To: metmom; Tired of Taxes; DaveLoneRanger
At this rate, they’ll require shots for homeschooled toddlers. I have nothing against immunizations, but this isn’t the way to do it.
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posted on
12/14/2007 4:02:52 PM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
To: Libloather
And when the first kid dies from the vaccine, the Government will jump in and help bankrupt the manufacturer of the vaccine.
I watch people get sick every year after getting a flu shot. My ex’s grandfather played golf the day he got the shot, in the hospital the next day, in the ground by weekend.
I’ll take my chances with the REAL bug.
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posted on
12/14/2007 4:04:31 PM PST
by
digger48
To: traviskicks; socialismisinsidious
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posted on
12/14/2007 4:05:40 PM PST
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: Libloather
Sorry, don't see the big deal here. When I attended school, I was required to show proof of vaccination for smallpox, polio, and DPT (diptheria, pertusis, and tetanus). No vaccinations, no attendence, period.
If you attend a school paid for by the state, the state has the right to demand certain things. If you don't want to give your kids these vaccinations, send you kids to private schools...problem is most of them require it as well.
As conservative and small government as I am, I believe the state does have the right to impose certain requirements to protect the general population from potentially deadly diseases. I would that we were controlling immigration as we did early in the 20th century where everyone was screened for TB. Now TB which had been eliminated in the US has now become more common and more deadly than it has been in decades.
There is such a thing as being too paranoid of government intervention. This is not oppressive government, this is reasonable precaution and common sense.
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posted on
12/14/2007 4:20:50 PM PST
by
Sudetenland
(Liberals love "McCarthyism," they just believe he was targeting the wrong side.)
To: Libloather
I'd rather REQUIRE one Teaspoon of Carlson's Lemon Flavored Cod Liver Oil for EVERY KID, EVERY DAY, administered by the teacher (so the parent's don't have to do it....LOL!)
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posted on
12/14/2007 4:27:18 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
To: goodnesswins
How about some for the bureaucrats too, taste of their own medicine.
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posted on
12/14/2007 4:35:06 PM PST
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: Sudetenland
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posted on
12/14/2007 4:48:46 PM PST
by
genefromjersey
(So much to flame;so little time !)
To: Libloather
Mercury Alert.
They're already overburdening kids' immune systems with these toxins.
To: Sudetenland
I agree with you on this. I get the flu shot each year & so does my 8 year old daughter. She gets sick easily & so far it hasn’t been the flu. I am very concerned that so many parents are against shots for children. But then I’m from the generation that got the small pox (I think) the one that left the scar on your arm.
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posted on
12/14/2007 5:39:09 PM PST
by
pandoraou812
( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
To: long hard slogger; FormerACLUmember; Harrius Magnus; Lynne; hocndoc; parousia; Hydroshock; ...
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:32:09 PM PST
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: darkangel82
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:37:53 PM PST
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: pandoraou812
“I get the flu shot each year & so does my 8 year old daughter.”
All of us get flue shots in the fall and I always get a pneumonia shot, too. My nephew goes to high school (he’s home schooled most of the day but takes biology from the district) and he gets the shot to keep from bringing the bug home to his 80-year old grandfather. I’m aware that not everyone can be vaccinated; no criticism from me to others on this issue.
A flu shot won’t completely protect everyone because influenza mutates so quickly, lierally, from person to person as the virus moves through a population. However the more individuals vaccinated the less chance of an epidemic because less victims means a slower mutation rate. So even the unvaccinated are, to some degree, protected within a group where the majority are vaccinated.
To: Sudetenland
Agreed. Too many parents send their kids to school when they’re sick because both parents are working. That puts other kids at risk and makes it easy to spread diseases around.
To: Sudetenland
You have a good point, but it is still fair to question. When schools are government run how much do we allow for them to dictate, engineer in the name of the "common good"? What if they decide that every 11 year old girl has to get the HPV vaccine?
Also, the flu shot is a yearly thing, not a booster every 10 years etc...so I wonder what the bureaucracy is going to look like and have to ask: who gains from this?
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posted on
12/14/2007 6:55:45 PM PST
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: socialismisinsidious
who gains from this? The drug companies. Do you have to ask?
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:01:03 PM PST
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: darkangel82
Yeah them. Also, who lobbied the NJ legislator and how? and how many politician’s have family and friends with stock etc...maybe even made 100k in a few short months Hillary style. ; )
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:13:07 PM PST
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: socialismisinsidious
Sounds like felonies to me. DOJ needs to get on it.
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:13:49 PM PST
by
darkangel82
(And the band played on....)
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:21:24 PM PST
by
Sudetenland
(Liberals love "McCarthyism," they just believe he was targeting the wrong side.)
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