Cross-posted from my un-political blog…
The school nurse called me a couple of days ago. (Begin nasally intonations):
Your son is coming due for his booster shot for XYZ vaccine. He has to have it by September 24 or he can’t continue to attend school.
I said, “Um, okay. I need to check his shot records. You & I had a discussion about this in June, and another one in August. Our doctor said he needs 90 days between the first and second shots. I need to double-check when he is due.”
As a side note – when we moved here we found that Texas requires three vaccinations that were not required in New Mexico. We have been catching up our son five shots at a time. It was the only way to get him into school with the right shots.
More nasally monotone droning:
Your doctor is wrong. The state of Texas requires he have it by September 24.
Then I start to get mad. His doctor is wrong? What does SHE know about it? She isn’t even a real nurse!
I said, “So what you are telling me is that you don’t really care if it is healthy for him, or whether he has actual immunities to XYZ disease. You only care that the paperwork is right.”
He has to have it by September 24 or he can’t attend school any more. It doesn’t matter what your doctor says.
These are the same morons who insisted my daughter needed FIVE (count ‘em! one-two-three-four-FIVE!) polio shots. You actually only need three.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what socialized medicine is going to look like in the United States. Your health is going to be in the hands of IDIOT BUREAUCRATS who have no qualifications for making those decisions.
I think my health should be between my doctor and me. Some nitwit in Washington, D.C. who was given his post as a political favor might be able to tax me into poverty – but the last thing I’m holding onto with bleeding finger stumps is the right to my own health. The federal government should have nothing to do with personal medical decisions.
Neither should the idiot pretend nurse at the school who isn’t qualified to do anything past shuffle papers and draw checkmarks in boxes.
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