Pallone talks H1N1 Flu Shots and wants answers

by: Jason Springer

Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 04:30:00 PM EST

Congressman Frank Pallone spent the end of last week talking about the H1N1 flu shot. Here's an interview he did with Washington Unplugged on CBS:

The Congressman talked about a hearing that his Health subcommittee will hold a hearing later this month to look into if Wall Street employees and others with additional access have been able to get the H1N1 flu vaccine before people from high-risk groups. From the Wall Street Journal:

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are among several large New York City employers that got doses of the H1N1 vaccine, which remains in short supply. WSJ's Betsy Mckay discusses Wall Street's latest public relations nightmare on The News Hub.
The businesses registered with the city's Department of Health to offer the vaccine through employee health clinics, and a department spokeswoman said they were sent doses as part of a plan to reach more high-risk adults.

Here's another exchange the Congressman had regarding who should be eligible for vaccines, this time regarding undocumented immigrants:

"We should do the vaccination strictly based on whether its a high risk group because, you know, disease has no barrier based on whether you are documented or not," Pallone told moderator John Dickerson. "If you end up not inoculating people who are undocumented and they start spreading the disease then that hurts everyone."
Dickerson asked the congressman how he would respond to the argument that the already unproduced and scarce vaccine should be distributed to United States taxpayers first.
"That's acting against your own self interest," Pallone said. "That's like saying all of the poor people have a disease so we won't inoculate them, and somehow the rich people are going to immune. You've got to be practical about this and not worry about whether somebody has papers.'

Another problem they're seeing is that some towns are running out of syringes to deliver the shots. As more people get sick and shortages with shots remain, the debate over who and how people should get shots will no doubt continue to simmer.

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Fighting over vacines is more evidenece of "spiritual death" (0.00 / 0)

Dr. King warned us in 1967:

"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. n the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. "
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by: Winston Smith @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 15:25:00 PM UTC