Forced Vaccination
FORCED Vaccination
Legislation requiring the vaccination of State employees before they can be covered by Workers Compensation if they contract Lyme disease. The 1999 Maryland bills are an example- see below.
HOUSE BILL 311- 1999 Session
36 (D) (1) A PAID LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
37 NATURAL RESOURCES WHO IS A COVERED EMPLOYEE UNDER § 9-207 OF THIS TITLE
38 IS PRESUMED TO HAVE AN OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE THAT WAS SUFFERED IN THE
39 LINE OF DUTY AND IS COMPENSABLE UNDER THIS TITLE IF THE EMPLOYEE:
40 (1) (I) IS SUFFERING FROM LYME DISEASE; AND
4 HOUSE BILL 311
1 (2) (II) WAS NOT SUFFERING FROM LYME DISEASE BEFORE
2 ASSIGNMENT TO A POSITION THAT REGULARLY PLACES THE EMPLOYEE IN AN
3 OUTDOOR WOODED ENVIRONMENT; AND
4 (III) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF THIS SUBSECTION,
5 DEMONSTRATES THAT THE EMPLOYEE HAD ANY LYME DISEASE VACCINATION
6 REQUIRED OR MADE AVAILABLE TO THE EMPLOYEE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF
7 NATURAL RESOURCES.
8 (2) THE REQUIREMENT IMPOSED BY PARAGRAPH (1)(III) OF THIS
9 SUBSECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO OBJECTS TO IMMUNIZATION
10 BECAUSE IT CONFLICTS WITH THE INDIVIDUAL'S BONA FIDE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
11 AND PRACTICES.
http://mlis.state.md.us/1999rs/bills/sb/sb0420t.PDF
It all boils down to MONEY.
Maryland Senate Bill 420
Department of Legislative Services
Maryland General Assembly 1999 Session
FISCAL NOTE Revised
(Senators Hafer and Ferguson)
1999- "For illustrative purposes, if there were two such claims per year that were not currently compensable but compensable under this provision, then the potential cost to the State would be $42,000 annually based on an average cost per claim of $21,000. (Claims involving Lyme Disease are potentially more costly than average if the disease goes undiagnosed for a period of time.)" Information Source(s): Department of Natural Resources, Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund, Subsequent Injury Fund, Uninsured Employers’ Fund, Workers’ Compensation Commission, National Council on Compensation Insurance, Department of Legislative Services
Link Here- http://mlis.state.md.us/1999rs/fnotes/bil_0000/sb0420.PDF
Lancet Infect Dis. 2011 Sep;11(9):713-9. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70034-2.
Antiscience and ethical concerns associated with advocacy of Lyme disease.
Auwaerter PG1, Bakken JS, Dattwyler RJ, Dumler JS, Halperin JJ, McSweegan E, Nadelman RB, O'Connell S, Shapiro ED, Sood SK, Steere AC, Weinstein A, Wormser GP.
Abstract
Advocacy for Lyme disease has become an increasingly important part of an antiscience movement that denies both the viral cause of AIDS and the benefits of vaccines and that supports unproven (sometimes dangerous) alternative medical treatments. Some activists portray Lyme disease, a geographically limited tick-borne infection, as a disease that is insidious, ubiquitous, difficult to diagnose, and almost incurable; they also propose that the disease causes mainly non-specific symptoms that can be treated only with long-term antibiotics and other unorthodox and unvalidated treatments. Similar to other antiscience groups, these advocates have created a pseudoscientific and alternative selection of practitioners, research, and publications and have coordinated public protests, accused opponents of both corruption and conspiracy, and spurred legislative efforts to subvert evidence-based medicine and peer-reviewed science. The relations and actions of some activists, medical practitioners, and commercial bodies involved in Lyme disease advocacy pose a threat to public health.
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Link Here- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21867956