Vinny,
I will try but I'm not very good at all this stuff so I might need your help. If I simply posted it as is (cut and paste seems to work) could you then get it posted the right way if I am too lame??? Lastly I did this in Word and not AC, so I'm not at all sure how this will or will not effect things. Thanks...
Also, Vinny and any other NYS'ers I was wondering could or should we all start taking consent, refusal of consent for these vaccine things so at least we have some cover for why we did or did not post them to the new "system"? Also does any NYS'er know what the penalties and enforcement is behind this new invasion of your patients and children's privacy???
This vaccine reggie really scares me because I see it as a "slippery slope" kind of thing that would then establish case law to allow the govt more power to gather other health data much like CCHIT wants to. I came up with a fairly frightening scenario...
So the use of the vaccine reggie now allows the govt to not just to get involved when there is a real public health issue, like a possible or actually occurring outbreak like with VD, STD's and TB, but now they can collect data just because there may be an issue later, for our supposed protections, right? The health dept is allowed to get involved only when there is a real case of TB or an STD to be concerned about, not because there might be an incident some time in the future, this is plain wrong. Like traffic cams that claim cars commit crimes, not individual drivers... Pull me over and get my license or go fish.
So what is to stop them from requiring pediatric patients from giving up a DNA sample to protect such a patient in the event that he or she was snatched by some weirdo? What parent wouldn't want to get their kid back if such a horrible set of circumstances were to occur? So sometime in the future my son is now a teenager lets say and after going to a school dance him and his friends went to hangout and party under one of the bridges in our local county park and left a few cigarette butts or beer and soda can with their DNA on them. A day later, some poor soul's body gets dumped there under that same bridge... Guess who's DNA they are going to find at the scene of the crime??? That's right my son's and his friends and now they are in the fight of their life to defend themselves against charges that they had nothing what so ever to do with. This really is the begining of something very bad. Our govt has no right being in the business of collecting assorted data on free citizens and the establishment of this first step on the slippery slope is very frightening and concerning. As we all know; "The road to hell is paved with good intent...."
FYI, Barnes and Noble has a fairly inexpensive paperback copy of "1984". I bought a copy for the waiting room and I am going to leave on our little table with the "Warning" notice to sort of help drive the point home. As Nancy said to me this weekend when I caught he reading it in her lounge chair, I ask, "So you reading about the coming brave new world?" and she reply, "No I'm just catching up on current events." Smart women...
Paul
