RE: Abstaining from Vaccination should NOT be a right
February 27, 2012 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2012 at 12:49 pm by Shell B.)
(February 27, 2012 at 12:28 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Um, lol, no. I was ordered to stand in line, just like everyone else, and then stuck in the arm with about 40 needles with nary a word spoken to me about what they were or what they did, and had I refused, I would have been discharged. It's mandatory, not up to my "informed decision" because no information was offered (in the interests of being completely open, there was a line to take a look at papers...which we were ordered to do, in about 5 seconds, before we were ordered into the line, Shell, they don't give a shit), and it didn't matter what I decided either way. You do it, period.
I call bullshit. You may, like so many others, have decided to forego careful perusal of your contract, your deployment papers, etc. However, I am absolutely positive that soldiers are informed of the fact that they will be vaccinated before they enter the military. They are also informed of it in their deployment orders, though they have no right to refuse by then. Yes, you were slammed through a line when you got the shot. Did you ever read the mountain of paperwork handed to you before then?
Quote:You'd be surprised what soldiers don't know when they join the army, and how little the army gives a shit if soldiers don't know something.
I wouldn't, actually. What you don't know, you know you are not going to know. You do know that you will be vaccinated.
Quote:You'd be hard pressed to find an area where smallpox vaccinations were uncommon, hence the "eradication" bit.
I didn't realize Afghanistan had country-wide access to anything, even water.
Quote:Yeah, yeah I was, minus the pool, and before I was ever born.
They gave you the smallpox vaccination in utero? This is getting ridiculous.
(February 27, 2012 at 12:40 pm)Insanity x Wrote:(February 27, 2012 at 12:36 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Pathogens don't give a shit whether or not you're educated, and I've heard that educated people sometimes make bad decisions.
But don't people have a right to make bad decisions?
Yes, they do. In so many things.
(February 27, 2012 at 12:24 pm)Phil Wrote: I am old so I already have been vaccinated against smallpox, never been in the military but what makes you think I am not in the healthcare industry?
I did not make any such assumption. I merely stated that unless you have had a reason to have a smallpox vaccination, you didn't get one. I have never had one because I am in my twenties and I do not work with or go where there are sick people.
Quote:But he did return and was hanging out poolside chit chatting with you and Melanbee, she was vaccinated so not exposed. You got a full blown case of smallpox.
How? He would not have been hanging out poolside until he was debriefed. There is no way he would be sitting next to me shedding the virus, especially if he got his vaccination, which, as a soldier, he did.
