Turning kids into pin cushions
New Jersey is turning kids into pin cushions. Not too long ago, I told you how the flu marketing machine was going to be out in full force this year – that, after millions of vaccine doses have gone unused in recent years, they were going to make sure Big Pharma never lost money again.
Turns out, the Garden State is about to become the garden of evil in this dirty little game.
New Jersey is dealing with a massive outcry from parents who are rightly questioning the wisdom of a new state law that is requiring children from the ages of 6 months to 5 years old to get flu shots in order to attend day-care centers and pre-K programs.
This law was passed last December – coincidentally, right around the time of year when reports on unused vaccines start trickling in.
Parents are saying that the decision on whether to inject their kids with a vaccine that is not always effective – and may, in fact, give the kids some flu symptoms – should be up to them, not the state. It's hard to disagree.
I don't know how many kids who are still in their first year of life will be given the flu vaccine under this program – but it will be tens of thousands, I'm sure. These are kids who have already spent much of their young lives as pin cushions, being injected with a bunch of other vaccines of questionable need. I can't imagine that putting another laboratory- engineered viral strain into their tiny bodies is particularly healthy.
In fact, one of the mothers at a recent rally in Trenton talked about how her daughter had died at age 5 just two weeks after receiving eight different vaccinations, including a booster.
The good news is that there's currently a bill in the state assembly that would allow parents who morally object to the vaccination program to opt their kids out of it.
Let's hope that gains some traction, because the other problem with the New Jersey plan is that it's pure economic blackmail – many of the people who need these day-care centers most are low- and middle-income families where both parents need to work. They're dependent on the care these centers provide for their children, and it would be a shame to see these parents forced into vaccinating their kids against their will.
