Don’t Blame Shots for All Ills, Swine Flu Officials Say

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Published: September 27, 2009

“As soon as swine flu vaccinations start next month, some people getting them will drop dead of heart attacks or strokes, some children will have seizures and some pregnant women will miscarry.

But those events will not necessarily have anything to do with the vaccine. That poses a public relations challenge for federal officials, who remember how sensational reports of deaths and illnesses derailed the large-scale flu vaccine drive of 1976.

This time they are making plans to respond rapidly to such events and to try to reassure a nervous public — and headline-hunting journalists — that the vaccine is not responsible.

Every year, there are 1.1 million heart attacks in the United States, 795,000 strokes and 876,000 miscarriages, and 200,000 Americans have their first seizure. Inevitably, officials say, some of these will happen within hours or days of a flu shot…”  The New York Times

  It sounds like they know what the TV and blogs are going to say as soon as something happens.  Think of all the stories they are going to have every time someone gets sick or dies.  Plus we got about 10% of the people that will believe any wild and strange story.  I would hate to be the CDC and other people when they start giving out the swine flu shots.

Comments

[Dick]

Jim said: "Plus we got about 10% of the people that will believe any wild and strange story."

I think that's the key to the times - and I'd up the percentage to 20% maybe 25%. Witness the "birthers" - those who question a valid state of Hawaii birth certificate - among Republicans that percentage soars to 42% per a recent poll by Public Policy Polling at: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_National_9231210.pdf.

So yes, the administration has two strikes against it from the outset with a significant percentage of the populace and anything that befalls them within a year of receiving a vaccination will be directly linked to the vaccination. In their minds.

Supercharged times. It's good to question everything you read but try to set personal and political bias aside. Once you've done the research go with the evidence. And be careful where you do the research - the internet is full of misleading, slanted websites.

[Joe Taibi]

They're saying these things as a preemptive strike because they know full well the injections are going to outright kill and otherwise sicken thousands so that they die later from the complications or other abnormalities said injections will adversely affect or otherwise create in recipients. They're so sure of it based upon the data from the 70's that they've already legislated immunity from legal action for restitution from the Doctors and pharmaceutical companies involved ahead of time.