Employees at a hospital in Ohio have been told that their bonuses
will be cut and their salaries frozen should they refuse to
be vaccinated with both the seasonal flu shot and the H1N1 flu
shot.
The Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus,
Ohio, has instigated a mandate on all workers to receive the
shots by the end of October.
The threat of pay cuts was delivered in a hospital
memo stating that employees with medical or religious objections
could opt out, but that those who refuse the treatments will
lose out on pay raises or bonuses.
A senior Doctor at the hospital, Dennis Cunningham
dismissed claims that the program was extreme, and also attempted
to counter concerns that the vaccines contain mercury in the
form of the thimerosal preservative.
“Multi-dose vials … there will be
a trace in there. It acts as a preservative. No bacteria in
there, and it’s kept sterile. But the level is so low,
it wouldn’t cause disease in humans,” Cunningham
claimed.
However, the Institute of Medicine recommended
against the policy of thimerosal containing vaccines in 2001.
Studies
have shown a direct relationship between mercury
in children's vaccines and autism. Further studies have shown
a decline in neurodevelopmental disorders after
the removal of thimerosal-containing vaccines. The preservative
has been banned or limited in Europe, Japan, England and Russia.
Furthermore, there are no reported instances of autism amongst
religious groups such
as the Amish community and very few instances are
reported in the third world.
Autism was a practically unknown affliction some
decades back, but now one
in every 150 children is affected.
Mercury is the second most toxic metal known to man behind
Uranium. Thimerosal is used in vaccines not because it is good
for you, but purely because it prevents vaccine contamination.
Yet some
have questioned why thimerosal is even considered
for vaccines because there are obviously safer alternatives
to preventing contamination.
Many believe the only reason it is still in vaccines
is that it allows substantial savings for pharmaceutical companies.
Questions also remain about how those companies conduct vaccine
research and how the government regulates them.
In other states, officials have suspended
the limits on the mercury preservative in H1N1
vaccines scheduled to be provided to children and pregnant women,
in a rush to mass vaccinate the population.
The following report on this story comes from
NBC4
News:
Last week we reported
a on similar story out of Albany, New York, where
a daycare worker employed by Northeast Health was shocked to
be told by her boss that she would be fired if she refused to
take a seasonal swine flu shot on the spot.
Though New York is a focal point, with new State
laws recently passed mandating vaccination for health care workers,
the same scenario has since unfolded
nationwide, with health workers across the country
now revolting in protest as more and more hospitals and clinics
are moving to instigate mandatory
vaccination polices.
Employees at a hospital in Ohio have been told that their bonuses
will be cut and their salaries frozen should they refuse to
be vaccinated with both the seasonal flu shot and the H1N1 flu
shot.
