Vote & Vax after Big Pharma Bailout, beware this flu shot!

[Guest guest]

Vote and Vax:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/10/29/vote.flu.shot/

(CNN) -- Record numbers of early voters are lining up across America, and one

nonprofit

hopes health is on at least some of their minds.

Outlaw got her flu shot at an Atlanta recreation center after voting

early.

The non-partisan program Vote & Vax is teaming up with local health agencies to

provide

flu vaccinations at 250 polling locations around the country.

" It's a win-win situation for everyone, " said Dr. Doug Shenson, national program

director

of Vote & Vax. " The providers are delivering flu shots. The community is

protected. The

election experience is an efficient and good one. "

In Atlanta, Georgia, hundreds of early voters waited in four-hour long lines

that snaked

around a community center. Seniors and people with disabilities waited in

expedited lines

to cast their ballots.

Regine Denis, a Vote & Vax volunteer, greeted voters with a question, " Have you

had your

flu shot yet? " and encouraged them to get their shot after voting.

Vote & Vax is " entirely non-political and entirely non-partisan " and started as

a way to get

older Americans vaccinated for the flu, Shenson said.

Every year, there are more than 200,000 hospitalizations for influenza and

36,000 deaths,

according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It recommends flu

shots for

everyone over the age of 50, but estimates only half receive the annual vaccine.

" The majority of people at the polls are 50 years and older. It's a way to reach

a group

that's at higher risk of the flu, " Shenson said. Learn more about vaccinations

at polling

sites »

" It seemed to be a convergence of opportunity with a potential to make an

important

public health impact. "

Election Day falls within flu season, as outbreaks can start in October and peak

in January.

With the presidential election bringing intense interest and states are

reporting high early

turnout.

" The key here is that it's a historic election for all ages, race and

gender, " said Denis,

a manager at the Fulton County Office of Aging, who helped coordinate the local

Vote &

Vax in Atlanta.

" We're seeing so many people -- with a senior candidate, a female candidate, an

African

American candidate, the community is coming out in record numbers. We want to

see

everyone get their flu shots. "

While waiting in line to vote, Outlaw learned about the flu shots and

walked to

the makeshift clinic in the same building after casting her ballot.

Volunteer nurses manned tables stocked with cotton balls, bandages and packets

of

ointment, and administered the shots.

" It's like Wal-Mart, " Outlaw said, after getting a shot in her upper left arm.

" It's a one-stop

shop. You can vote and get your flu shot. "

Getting a flu shot had been on Berthine ' to-do list. " It was about that

time to

schedule one with the doctor, " she said after getting her vaccination at an

Atlanta polling

site. " Now I got one. It was very convenient. "

People who got vaccinated received a Vote & Vax button to pin next to their " I'm

a Georgia

Voter " sticker.

During the 2006 election, the Wood Foundation provided funds to a

New

England-based non-profit, called Sickness Prevention Achieved Through Regional

Collaboration. That organization piloted the Vote & Vax program at 25 public

health

agencies, which administered nearly 14,000 flu shots on Election Day.

" People appreciate the convenience of Vax & Vote, " Shenson said. " Where it's

cold and

difficult for people to get around, they can vote and get a flu shot and be able

to do in it

one trip. "

This year, the flu shots are offered during early voting or on Election Day,

depending on

the location. The cost for the flu shots vary depending on the clinic, available

in 36 states.

Big Pharma Bailout:

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/846427.html

" But by declaring these public health emergencies, HHS has granted manufacturers

of

anti-terrorism drugs and vaccines and others involved with the products

protection from

lawsuits if the drugs were to cause unfortunate side effects.

As the law was written, it could be applied to virtually any drug or vaccine,

Kennedy and

the others said, and not just to the medications needed to fight pandemic flu or

bioterrorism. "

Election Day's planetary alignment:

http://www.galacticcenter.org/predic...ober-2008.html

Election day has a planetary opposition which the last time occurred was in 1918

when the

Spanish flu pandemic killed over 40 million people. From my research, the

Spanish flu

was caused by vaccines, and those who didn't get vaxed survived.

The bird flu vax has been mass produced (millions) in China and has been

stockpiled in

the US for a few months now. It is made from a frozen 1918 virus. It was made

without

being tested. It has thimerosal (mercury) and formaldehyde and chicken eggs in

it. When

it was tested on 350 homeless people after mass production, THEY WERE TOLD IT

WAS

THE FLU SHOT, NOT THE BIRD FLU SHOT. 20 of them died and 200 hospitalized.

The flu shot going around right now and being so insistently pushed might be

this vax

that could start a flu pandemic. Please do not get this shot and tell others

not to!

Here's links for references:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171329,00.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-06-11-3896085516_x.htm

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=742

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-

people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html

http://www.fda.gov/Cber/label/h5n1san041707LB.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=VLT0_xMeLjI & eurl=http://www.davi****e.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39426

http://www.whale.to/v/spanish_flu.html

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2003/05/08/story265526733.asp

http://members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/spanish_flu.htm

Here's a natural remedy, although I think just NOT getting the vax will be

enough.

Lomatium, those who took it survived the Spanish Flu pandemic, highly antiviral:

http://www.naturalnews.com/020091.html

http://vitanetonline.com/description/NA0303/vitamins/Lomatium-Alcohol-Free/

The root -- called Lomatium Dissectum, Biscuit Root or Indian Consumption Plant

-- was

eaten by the Washoe Indians to battle viral illnesses such as influenza. During

the 1918

Spanish flu pandemic, not a single Washoe tribe member died from influenza or

its

complications.

Thanks for reading this and please pass the word on to NOT GET THE FLU VAX!!!