Comments on: Take The Swine Flu Vaccine Or You’re Fired

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:25:43 +0000

It is now 2012 , and it is mandatory in the state of NY and GA to have mandatory flu shots for health care workers. Wow, is this still America? The vaccine hasn’t been out long enough to test long term side effects. I get so upset when I see people giving their children this shot. Im not anti-government but this is going too far….

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:04:42 +0000

If you don’t want it, do not get it. As a pharmacist, I am familiar with the adverse effects of many drugs, including vaccinations. No job or paycheck is worth spending the rest of my life unable to walk and function like a normal human being. The risk is 1 in a million. Just hope you are not that 1. People need to re-discover their balls and backbones and realize we are free-thinking human beings, not sheep.

By: notignorant

notignorant — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:28:27 +0000

People are not crazy “as someone stated “. All american citizens have rights. Many would not mind taking a flu shot or a swine flu shot if they knew they were tested and very safe.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:04:54 +0000

I have been informed today that if I do not take this vaccine I will not be allowed to come to work as of Monday, and I will be terminated. I work for a hospital in NC in a non patient contact position. I have a severe allergy to eggs, but I do not have a primary care physician because I do not have health insurance so I have no one to write me an exemption letter. I am only part-time and cannot afford to persue this matter. I am forced to risk my health and my life in order to save my job. IS THIS NAZI GERMANY ?????? Is there an organized group with a legal consult who will take our cases to a federal court to stop this insanity!!

By: Suprisedbyignorance

Suprisedbyignorance — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:54:27 +0000

I think those who have commented before are really crazy. Read the science, you should be ashamed to call yourself healthcare workers and not get vaccinated to protect your patients. Give up the conspiracy theories, this is a patient safety issue and an issue to protect other co-workers. Do you also refuse your mandatory PPD tests? Read the SHEA, CDC, APCI, AHA, APA, etc recommendations and studies. Influenza is the 6th leading cause of death in this country. Grow up

By: Nutter

Nutter — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:53:57 +0000

I am not in direct patient contact at a hospital but there is now a policy stating that if I do not get a flu shot then I have to wear a mask. I work in an office located in an administrative wing and seldom see patients until I walk to my car and have to pass them as they’re smoking on hospital grounds.

Personally, I find the policy humiliating, as it will single me out as being either sick or not able to have the shot. How is this not a privacy violation in and of itself? I’ve been with the same employer for nearly a decade and happy in my job – I love my work – but I find the policy to be punitive, insufferable, and thoughtless of the moral and ethical dilemmas it will create for the employees who cannot or will not, because of whatever reasons; spiritual or physical, that they may have. I am heartbroken to think that I may have to leave my job because of this issue and feel I’m being treated like a nutter for not taking the shot and feeling strongly about this change in policy.

By: Michael Ortiz

Michael Ortiz — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:09:30 +0000

In response to Jim Becker’s request on September 27th; you do have a right…it’s called file an official grievance with Union Representation. It’s my understanding that one main Director is forcing the wearing of masks and not others for those who haven’t received the vaccination. See your Union representative for help!!!

By: gayle rosenblatt

gayle rosenblatt — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:23:46 +0000

concerned nurse:
I am a nurse who is being forced to wear a mask for 4 straight months at work. I cannot take the flu shot due to severe allergy. while working I feel ostrasized by peers and those I am caring for. The research I have done does not demonstrate that I am a danger to my patients by not wearing a mask. Where is the data that nurses are a definite link of patients acquiring the flu from their nurse. Washing your hands are the key to stop transmission. Help !!!!

By: real nurse

real nurse — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:35:10 +0000

we nurses and health workers need to take action, there no evidence that flu is transmitted from patients in hospitals through nurses or health workers, this is a community transmitted disease, i challenge all who are forcing this, show me the proof, show me the effectiveness, quaranty me that if i take the vaccine i will not get the flu or carry it? again show me the proof.
my advice to all of you refuse the vaccine and wear a mask all six months, i wonder what the managers of these hospitals well feel if most of thier workers are wearing masks or what thier patients will think of them?

By: medic in pa

medic in pa — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:45:45 +0000

I also am in pa and the hospital like aria is mandate it. I filed a request to not vaccinate and denied it I will appeal again.They said the shot doesn’t have mercury or any cancer causing agents or aborted fetus tissue. I know I will call stark and stark before i get the shot. Its poison and I am no guinea pig. I eat totally organic and I cannot afford to lose me job either but I still have rights. If something happen and i get ill at all I will try a landmark case to sue. My wife won a mold case that no one had before that made her and her children ill. It’s sad doctors nurses and medic have no rights.

By: Regal

Regal — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:47:48 +0000

They are starting to push this crap in southern hospitals. All we hear are patients rights-so much that we can’t do our jobs as it needs to be done. But we are being told mandatory flu vaccinations. I am 51 years old and rarely call in. Maybe have had 2 sick days last year and it was a Sinus infection. Been nursing for 23 years. Where are OUR RIGHTS? If we tried to force a vaccine on a pt we would be under the courthouse. I wish I had never chose this career.

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:16:53 +0000

Someone needs to follow the money trail. Are hospitals getting gov money to push shots. How much. We need a class action law suit or 2 and the communism will stop. I will leave health care if need be and go on welfare I can learn to be lazy and unemployed.

By: Unwilling party

Unwilling party — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:47:52 +0000

I do not understand why everyone (government, healthcare, etc.) is so pushy with this vaccination. The hospital I work at requires everyone to get a flu vaccine. We do not get a choice of wearing a mask unless we have religious beliefs or a history of Guillian Barre. The nurses giving out the vaccine have a script they follow and do not answer with their honest facts or opinions. I feel it goes against some sort of civil right we have as citizens of the USA. In this economy most have no choice but to get vaccinated. Jobs are really hard to come by. The only option we have is when we sign our name to write how we really feel and state that I am in good health and am doing this under duress.

By: Dreven

Dreven — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:44:28 +0000

I work for Aria Health in Philadelphia Pa and they just came out with the same policy “get it or you’re fired!” I don’t want this crap, where are my rights?? I’m being told that I’ll be given 2 weeks with out pay to “think about it” and after that no shot you’re fired. I haven’t got the “flu vaccine” in 10 years 11 years ago I got the shot and was sick as hell for a week! I don’t want to make waves I just want to do my job without being forced to be injected with poison??

By: I-R8-RN

I-R8-RN — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:23:59 +0000

ITS THE PRINCIPLE – I DON”T WANT MONEY!!!!

By: jim beker

jim beker — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:07:12 +0000

All NHCL personnel including: active duty, DoD civilians, contract personnel, employee affiliates (such as MCCS and eatery personnel), and volunteers are REQUIRED (Per NAVHOSPINSTCAMLEJ 6230.1) to get the influenza vaccine as a condition of their employment as well as to protect our patients from influenza. Those who believe they warrant exemption must provide documentation per this instruction.
Help how do I have authority to say NO

By: kathy, S

kathy, S — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:22:56 +0000

I am an RN in Missouri, same thing here. Policy came out last week take the flu shot or no job. I’ve been through the extreme weekness, couldn’t use my arms, barely able to walk, still drop things unexpectedly, the swollen tongue, lips, swollen throat. Not gonna happen again. Won’t be working after Nov. 1. I take Acidophylis daily and haven’t had a cold, flu or anything else in 5 years and not before either. Sounds like Nazi’s to me. I too feel like my rights went down the toilet.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:40:54 +0000

I work for a hospital had to get the combo H1N1 / flu shot last year or loose my job. I am an AT HOME MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONIST. I don’t even set foot in the hospital and I was made to get the shot.

By: Cynthia L. Brognano RN, BSN

Cynthia L. Brognano RN, BSN — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:41:06 +0000

The question is – do we have sovereignty over our bodies or not? And if not, under what authority does the government claim ownership?

By: sue roman

sue roman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:50:16 +0000

I will probably lose my job tomorrow, I work in an Independent facility which also has Assisted Living, and Nursing Home attached. I can no longer wear the mask while I work, it is affecting me physically as I am a waitress, and it is very hard to breath. It is frustrating, because I feel I have no rights. I have never taken the flu shot and chose to take care of myself.

Any suggestions or any good lawyers out there?