Mandatory Vaccination

[degfnp]

Many hospitals mandate their nurses to receive influenza vaccinations each year during flu season. Those who decline are forced to wear a mask while at work during the season. For those who cannot get the vaccine (for example, those who are allergic to ingredients), this seems like unfair punishment for something that they did not choose!

I can understand mandating nurses who decline, because in my opinion, it is an incentive for the staff to receive the vaccine. However, for those who wish that they are able to be vaccinated, this seems like undue punishment! I know it is for their protection, but in my opinion, they should have the right to make that decision on their own.

What are your thoughts on this?

So which religions forbid vaccination?

I've actually never found a person refusing vaccines on regligious basis to actually practice the religion.

[imagine7generations]

Fact Sheet on Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)

...two studies did suggest that about 1 more person out of 1 million people vaccinated with seasonal flu vaccine may develop GBS. For the most part, the chance of getting very ill from flu is far higher than the chance of getting GBS after getting the flu vaccine.

-CDC

On a side note, I personally know four adult people who developed GBS after getting a vaccine and not one was reported as an adverse vaccine reaction to any reporting networks, even though their doctors advised them not to get another vaccine.

[imagine7generations]

Two examples of a religious belief against vaccination below.

Biblical based

"All vaccines are made in violation of God's Word.

Vaccines are made with toxic chemicals that are injected into the bloodstream by vaccination.

All vaccines are made with foreign proteins (viruses and bacteria), and some vaccines are made with genetically engineered viral and bacterial materials.

A conflict arises if you believe that man is made in God's image and the injection of toxic chemicals and foreign proteins into the bloodstream is a violation of God's directive to keep the body/temple holy and free from impurities.

A conflict arises if you accept God's warning not to mix the blood of man with the blood of animals.

Many vaccines are produced in animal tissues.

A conflict arises if your religious convictions are predicated on the belief that all life is sacred.

God's commandment "Thou Shall Not Kill" applies to the practice of abortion.

When you believe that the practice of abortion should not be encouraged or supported in any way, a conflict arises with the use of vaccines produced in aborted fetal tissue."

Buddhist

"ALL childhood vaccinations include animal and/or human products, including:

Human cells from aborted fetal tissue and human albumin.

Pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, guinea pig, dog

kidney, cow heart, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken

egg, duck egg, calf serum, sheep blood and others. Also,

gelatin produced from selected pieces of calf and cattle

skins, de-mineralized cattle bones and pork skin.

Beyond this, ALL vaccines, without exception, are

tested on animals in corporate pharmaceutical torture

chambers across the globe. Even those vaccines that

predate routine animal testing, and so were not tested on

animals in their development, are today so tested batch by

batch as current supplies roll off the laboratory floor.

Whatever the debatable benefits of our national childhood

immunization program may be, the moral and karmic cost in ongoing,

unrepentant, intentionally-inflicted animal suffering,

mutilation and death is mindbogglingly, exponentially

higher. From my Buddhist perspective,

immunization represents a spiritual abomination of

unimaginable proportions."

On a side note, I personally know four adult people who developed GBS after getting a vaccine and not one was reported as an adverse vaccine reaction to any reporting networks, even though their doctors advised them not to get another vaccine.

How many are from interwebs posts?

[elkpark]

The employer likely denied the nurse's religious exemption request because there are no religious organizations that exist in the US which oppose vaccinations.

Bizarrely, in a lot of states you don't have to be a member of an organized religion that objects to vaccinations, you just have to have a personal religious objection to vaccinations.

Two examples of a religious belief against vaccination below.

Where is this quote from? Please cite your direct source to this as the advice of any major religion.

You can't because this was directly lifted from blog posts circulating the internet on how to write a religious exemption letter. It is not consistent with the teachings of any major religion.

Ironically it's origin was from a letter written by a mothe in the state of NY and it was deemed to not warrant an exemption under NY law.

[MunoRN, RN]

Two examples of a religious belief against vaccination below.

Biblical based

"All vaccines are made in violation of God's Word.

Vaccines are made with toxic chemicals that are injected into the bloodstream by vaccination.

All vaccines are made with foreign proteins (viruses and bacteria), and some vaccines are made with genetically engineered viral and bacterial materials.

A conflict arises if you believe that man is made in God's image and the injection of toxic chemicals and foreign proteins into the bloodstream is a violation of God's directive to keep the body/temple holy and free from impurities.

A conflict arises if you accept God's warning not to mix the blood of man with the blood of animals.

Many vaccines are produced in animal tissues.

A conflict arises if your religious convictions are predicated on the belief that all life is sacred.

God's commandment "Thou Shall Not Kill" applies to the practice of abortion.

When you believe that the practice of abortion should not be encouraged or supported in any way, a conflict arises with the use of vaccines produced in aborted fetal tissue."

Buddhist

"ALL childhood vaccinations include animal and/or human products, including:

Human cells from aborted fetal tissue and human albumin.

Pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, guinea pig, dog

kidney, cow heart, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken

egg, duck egg, calf serum, sheep blood and others. Also,

gelatin produced from selected pieces of calf and cattle

skins, de-mineralized cattle bones and pork skin.

Beyond this, ALL vaccines, without exception, are

tested on animals in corporate pharmaceutical torture

chambers across the globe. Even those vaccines that

predate routine animal testing, and so were not tested on

animals in their development, are today so tested batch by

batch as current supplies roll off the laboratory floor.

Whatever the debatable benefits of our national childhood

immunization program may be, the moral and karmic cost in ongoing,

unrepentant, intentionally-inflicted animal suffering,

mutilation and death is mindbogglingly, exponentially

higher. From my Buddhist perspective,

immunization represents a spiritual abomination of

unimaginable proportions."

There is no Christian or Jewish prohibition of vaccinations, the bible does not prohibit vaccinations (which don't actually contain 'toxins' as you've claimed), it does however strongly promote protecting those at risk of an otherwise preventable death or injury.

Buddhism not only doesn't oppose vaccinations, it was Bhuddists who effectively 'invented' the precursor to modern vaccinations; variolation of smallpox.

And if you're going to just copy and paste from a chiropractors website, you really should appropriately source the quote: Facts about Vaccine Religious Exemption in Florida Opting out of Vaccines in Florida

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

On a side note, I personally know four adult people who developed GBS after getting a vaccine and not one was reported as an adverse vaccine reaction to any reporting networks, even though their doctors advised them not to get another vaccine.

Anyone can complete a VAERS report, so perhaps you should have done this for them, if the provider or patient did not.