If you do not inject – you might infect. Compliance is mandatory citizen… Resistance is futile, you WILL be assimilated !
PENNSYLVANIA – Dreonna Breton was very concerned about her fourth pregnancy.
Now she and her husband, Jeremy, are worried about paying their bills after she was fired from her job as a registered nurse on Dec. 17.
“It’s a scary place to be,” she said. “We depend on my income heavily.”
Breton, 29, lost her job for refusing to be immunized against the flu.
And the Bretons, who live in West Donegal Township with their 19-month-old son, Westen, do not regret her decision.
“We know we did the right thing,” she said Thursday.
After going through two miscarriages, she didn’t want to take any chances.
“It was very emotional,” she said of her miscarriages in March and June. “It’s not something I’ve gotten over. I mean, we put ornaments on our tree for the babies.”
When she learned in October that she was pregnant, she got busy researching the safety of flu vaccines for pregnant women.
She knew her employer, Horizon Healthcare Services in Manheim Township, was requiring all personnel to get a flu shot.
Employer’s stand, reasons – Asked about the flu shot requirement, part-owner Lancaster General Health sent a statement on behalf of Horizon’s president, Carolyn Carlson, a registered nurse.
“Like our requirements for TB skin testing and MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccination as a condition of employment, mandatory flu immunization protects our patients, employees, and community from getting this potentially serious infection,” Carlson says in the statement, which cites Lancaster General Health’s similar policy.
Horizon Healthcare Services is owned equally by four partners: Lancaster General Health, Reading Health System, PinnacleHealth System and Penn State Hershey. LGH handles payroll, human resources and employee health services for Horizon, according to LGH spokesman John Lines.
Lines said Horizon requires any employee exempt for medical or religious reason from the flu vaccination requirement to wear a mask the entire shift.
Why not a mask? Breton disagrees. She was willing to wear a mask throughout flu season. (continue reading)