Follow the Money - Chuck

Follow the Money - Chuck Simmins - apparently an EMT - asks where the money is going in the current "smallpox preparedness" program. It's not pretty.

I knew this was going to happen. When I saw plans to vaccinate hospital janitors, and hospital unions demanding two days off with pay for their vaccinated members, I just knew.

This is the deal, folks. You're contagious with smallpox when you feel awful. Most people will feel so bad that they will not be able to move around. So, they'll call the ambulance. And I'll show up, unvaccinated, along with the fire guys and the cops. And some ward clerk in OB/GYN will have received the vaccine.

And, to all the little kingdom builders in health departments and hospitals everywhere, GET A FREAKIN CLUE!

If smallpox breaks out, everyone working on VD, you'll be working on smallpox. All the lab space devoted to the flu and to West Nile will be devoted to smallpox. The bureaucrats assigned to getting teen age mothers maternity care will be working on smallpox. The guy with the toothache at the Emergency Department will be told to go home and get a life because they'll all be working on smallpox!

You don't need a new lab, a new laptop, more personnel. You'll all be working on smallpox!

I'll say it again. The smallpox scare is being promoted by people at the trough waiting for Uncle Sam's feed truck to fill it up. Is it possible that we could be attacked by terrorist using smallpox. Yep. Are we already under attack by terrorists sucking on Uncle Sam's teats? You bet! This is a manufactured scare, and if we are really attacked, my EMT butt is in a sling because all the wrong things will have been done.

As Instapundit says - Investigative Reporters? Have at it. Here's your entree to this issue.

Posted by Mitch at December 28, 2002 10:03 AM