Weekly poll: State mandated quarantine
Last week the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that updated the state’s emergency powers, according to the Boston Globe.
According to the article Massachusetts governors and public health commissioners have always had the power to quarantine people suffering from communicable disease, but the issue has come to the forefront this flu season. Those concerned about swine flu vaccinations oppose the bill although the law specifically forbids forced vaccinations. However health officials do have the power to quarantine those who refuse vaccines during extraordinary health emergencies.
We’ve seen both sides of the required vaccination issue, what do you think about forced quarantine measures? Feel free to voice your opinion in the comments section below.
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OSHA Healthcare Advisor Poll
The OSHA Healthcare Advisor Poll is our weekly questionnaire that is updated every Monday. It is a great opportunity for you to let us know what is going on at your facility, while also getting a look at what your peers have to say. Every week we will post a new question related to healthcare safety. As always, if you have any burning questions of your own, post them in the comments section below and it could become a featured poll question.
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I agree with the quarantine. I would not want a healthcare worker taking care of me that could be exposing me to a communicable disease because they chose not to get vaccinated againist it. I also feel that we need to screen everyone that enters this country like we use to.
I am in a state of shock over the negative reaction to getting a vaccination. I am a healtcare worker. I chose this profession to assist others. Why would I not get vaccinated if I can?
Can you imagine what our world would be like if our parents had said. Gee, This new Salk polio vaccine has not been tested well, I think I will not vaccinate my children.
I don’t remember having a choice about being vaccinated every year in school when I was a child. It is a public health issue. As a TV character used to say. “THE GOOD OF THE MANY OUTWEIGH THE NEEDS OF A FEW.”
We should have the right to say if we want anything injected into our bodies.
I think it’s against our constitutional rights to be forced to accept a vaccine. Every healthcare worker should have to wear a mask when on nursing units from Oct 1st-May 1st if they do not accept the flu shot. At least this way they are still given a choice. It’s not all about the shot, much of it if about Freedom of Choice.
Such actions are a loss of personal rights which continue to degenerate our lives into a social state.
Remember medicine is a science and is not absolute. There are no guaranties or warranties applied with any medical treatment or prevention method but rather an application of best know practices that bring similiar results from a history of prior applications prescribed by a person having experience in the applied art of medicine.
Being vacinated does not eliminate the ability of a worker not to carry the disease, however only provides an immunity the “inocculated one” which enables the body to overcome the infection much more quickly causing less bodily stress (whcich can kill)and/or less sever and/or unnoticed symptoms.
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