Coercion to Get Flu Shots is Increasing
Based on Fear and Dangerous Thinking
Coercion: Fear of COVID-19 is being used by academic institutions, state agencies, and even New Jersey legislators, to coerce students and employees into now receiving influenza vaccines. These actions are forcing students and employees to choose between their educational goals or employment and their right to make their own medical decisions. Exemptions for personal or conscientiously held beliefs are not being accepted.
MEDICAL TREATMENTS MUST REMAIN VOLUNTARY: Flu vaccines, like all medical treatments, must always remain voluntary. Withholding education and employment in order to coerce Americans into compliance and into receiving treatments that they would otherwise decline, is a grave strike against the spirit of our Constitution and the fundamental personal liberties it protects. Medical freedoms are protected under well-known principles of health freedom and human rights, and the fundamental constitutional rights of personal autonomy, self-determination, and personal liberty. Making sure that any flu shot recommendations are clearly voluntary with strong exemptions in place for personal, conscientiously held or religious beliefs is a top public policy and constitutional priority.
FLU VACCINES ARE NEITHER SAFE NOR EFFECTIVE: Vaccines are thought of by many as an immediate elixir, without consideration for their dangerous side effects. However, flu vaccines are known to have significant risks, including disability and death, and the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine has been shown to be as low as 20-30%. In addition, important research has been done by the U.S. Department of Defense, even before COVID-19 was identified, showing that a flu vaccine can actually increase a person’s chances of getting a number of other respiratory viruses, including common corona viruses, a phenomenon known as virus interference. Experts question whether it is advisable to get an influenza vaccine this year, given the circulating corona virus in the population; certainly it should not be mandated! (See more on flu vaccines below)
CALMING THE RAMPANT FEAR: The fear of illness has itself become contagious; Americans are on hyper alert right now. Americans must rise to the occasion and calm each other and remember the many nurturing methods of healing that are available, and what one normally does to avoid or cope with the seasonal flu.