Wisconsin bill would eliminate workplace flu-shot requirement

I work for one of the companies mentioned in the original article and have taken care of >400 influenza patients over the last 2 years. I fully support mandated vaccinations for those working in health care. 

The manditory vaccine program is not about keeping the employee healthly (although this is a + side effect), it's about not spreading influenza to other patients.

Of the 400 patients with + influenza tests, 300 or so had not been vaccinated.

If you've every actually had Influenza (which is a respiratory viruse that makes you sick as heck and wishing you were dead), you would never question getting a flu shot,) thats why I'm always the first in line

The last 2 versions of influenza spread throuth the community like wild fire- litterly doubling our clinic volume in less than  a week. However, these strains were virulent and most patients recovered within a week.

The thought of a truly virulent strain migrating through the community keeps me awake at night- it's that scarry,

I was trying to read up on this topic and ran across this statement HERE:

“Medical ethicist Art Caplan says health care workers' ethical obligation to protect patients trumps their individual rights.”

 Oh really? Well if that is true, then next lets start requiring all of the 'immune system run down, crap eating, non exercising, sickly patients' to give up their cokes and pop-tarts and make them a log at least one 30 minute workout a day, because after all if the health care workers are giving up their rights for them...

What are You willing to give up for your health care workers? What FREEDOMS are you willing to be forced to give up?

Actually, why require this flu shot? Instead, why don't hospitals force healthcare workers to live a healthy lifestyle and build up their immune system?

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I think THIS comment made a lot of sense:

"You know who’s really losing out by these employees not getting the shots? The drug companies, who produce them and then lobby for forcing people to have them, and the employers who have to pay sick-pay to sick people. You have to admit that this is all a brilliant scheme.

Scare people into flu vaccines every year. Now, it doesn’t work as well anymore, because they’ve used up all the scare-ability on the years that the SARS, Swine-Flu and Bird-Flu’s never hit like they predicted. In the following years after those “pandemics”, when the people didn’t get the vaccines, these drug companies were left with hundreds of millions of dollars in unsold vaccines.

What’s a good way to ensure that doesn’t happen again? Lobby to make it a fire-able offense if an employer requires flu-shots and employees opt out."

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I was trying to read up on this topic and ran across this statement HERE:

“Medical ethicist Art Caplan says health care workers' ethical obligation to protect patients trumps their individual rights.”

 Oh really? Well if that is true, then next lets start requiring all of the 'immune system run down, crap eating, non exercising, sickly patients' to give up their cokes and pop-tarts and make them a log at least one 30 minute workout a day, because after all if the health care workers are giving up their rights for them...

What are You willing to give up for your health care workers? What FREEDOMS are you willing to be forced to give up?

Actually, why require this flu shot? Instead, why don't hospitals force healthcare workers to live a healthy lifestyle and build up their immune system?

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I think THIS comment made a lot of sense:

"You know who’s really losing out by these employees not getting the shots? The drug companies, who produce them and then lobby for forcing people to have them, and the employers who have to pay sick-pay to sick people. You have to admit that this is all a brilliant scheme.

Scare people into flu vaccines every year. Now, it doesn’t work as well anymore, because they’ve used up all the scare-ability on the years that the SARS, Swine-Flu and Bird-Flu’s never hit like they predicted. In the following years after those “pandemics”, when the people didn’t get the vaccines, these drug companies were left with hundreds of millions of dollars in unsold vaccines.

What’s a good way to ensure that doesn’t happen again? Lobby to make it a fire-able offense if an employer requires flu-shots and employees opt out."

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Wow.

My employer (or our insurance co) gives free flu shots in the office every year. I am the only one in my office who does not take the Flu shot. I am also the only one in my office that never gets the flu.

I personally think forcing someone to take a flu shot goes against their rights as an American citizen. I would quit my job before I would do it.

And not just because I don't care for the flu shot. Because I think it is wrong.