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influenza…

04 Sep 2009 by admin

i’ve always been a proponent of immunizations. (i’ve had numerous battles with a cousin who refuses to immunize his children but haven’t changed my mind in the slightest.)

i tend to trust that doctors have our best interests at heart, at least on this issue. it has been floated that doctors are pushing these vaccines on the public so that they can reap the financial rewards. as has been pointed out in other sources, the doctors (and various other health care providers) stand to make a much bigger fortune if people get sick and are hospitalized rather than a one time $30 payment (what it cost for my regular flu vaccine).

last summer i read a novel called ‘the great influenza’ by john m. barry. it described in great detail the struggle with the deadly influenza pandemic during the wwI period. i highly recommend the book. it can be very dry in some places but it was very enlightening and helped me understand the huge difference between a deadly strain and a fairly mild strain and why it’s so important to protect ourselves.

this virus is deadly! the deaths per year are reported at between 20000 and 36000 per year. the number varies per report but even if it’s on the lower end near 20000, that still 20000 too many deaths. i don’t want myself or my family to be in that category. it’s easy to refuse vaccines but almost impossible to lose a loved one, especially child to horrific illness.

medicine advances over time. new ideas, procedures, treatments and chemicals are discovered every year. some of these are dropped over time, some may become better over time and unfortunately we’ve discovered that some of these may be detrimental. we must trust that doctors have our best interests at heart. research doctors spend their lifetimes working to keep us healthy. the doctors during the 1918 influenza outbreak spent years working on a cure or at least an understanding of this deadly virus. they weren’t doing it to make money. they were doing it to save people.

it’s your choice. get the vaccine or don’t. i sincerely hope you never lose a loved one to one of these preventable illnesses and i hope you will consider/reconsider getting the vaccine. my children and i are protected from the regular flu now and will receive protection from swine flu as soon as it’s available.

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giving the finger to healthcare…

04 Sep 2009 by admin

this guy who had his finger bitten off at a health care protest seems like a nice guy and it stinks that he had to lose a finger. however, i think after having thrown two punches at the other guy, perhaps he deserved some sort of retaliation. i’m not saying that he deserved to lose the finger but perhaps keep your hands to yourself and you would have NO consequences to deal with.

neil cavuto interviewed the guy on his faux news show and boy, i never had pitches this soft when i played little league softball! why didn’t you take the guy to task for throwing the first punch? or even the second punch? fair and balanced my ass. why doesn’t fox just admit they are a right wing news station? it’s blatantly obvious and it would make fox look less ridiculous when it claims to just report the news. msnbc is quite open in it’s reporting. it allows for the left leaning commentators in the evening but have actual news reports during the day. i’m not saying that msnbc is neutral in all of it’s reporting but it is at least truthful and trustworthy.

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the president at school…

04 Sep 2009 by admin

how disingenuous these righties are regarding the president’s speech to school children! it’s not unprecedented as i’ve heard stated repeatedly. it’s not even unusual. presidents have used technology as it’s become available. 25 years ago when reagan was president, this just wasn’t an easy possibility. presidents regularly speak to school children.

(now i know that bush only read a story to the kids but you have to keep the speeches at the intelligence level of the speaker and an elementary book was all he could handle.)

i do agree that asking ‘how you can help the president’ is a poor choice of words. it sounds like a plea for assistance in pushing an agenda. i would hope that what they meant was how can you be involved in the government.

every year in school we had to write some type of essay about the government. (what needed to be done. why our government is great, etc…) i am fully behind any assignment that would help my kids get involved in our governmental processes.

i wish these righties would just come out and say it in plain speak. you don’t want your kids to hear from a democrat in general…obama specifically. you would like to keep your indoctrination inside the home. fine…keep your kids home. don’t deprive my children of being involved in seeing what their government is all about.

i guess this all comes from sour grapes. after adulterous newt promised a republican revolution and piggy rove promised a permanent republican majority, it must be a disappointment to realize they screwed it all up. i’m not so stupid as to think the democrats will be in power forever or even for the next 8 years. i do, however, realize that holding the governing process hostage because you’re pissed that you’re a minority is childish! democrats may have disagreed strenuously with what bush was doing but it did NOT require a 60 vote majority every time he wanted something done! the dems were smart enough to use that awesome power responsibly…when it was very important. repugs are causing great harm to the governing process all for sour grapes. it’s sad, childish and irresponsible.

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