Blackout: Military Personnel Banned From Swine Flu Vaccine Sites
Mark Graffis
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If you want to draw attention to a problem, try hiding it. That's
the strategy of several military bases when it comes to the H1N1
vaccine. With a vaccine that was so new and little known about it,
like many Americans, troops were heading to the web to find answers
to their very legitimate questions. What they found instead is that
several websites and blogs with key information asking critical
questions had been blocked from their viewing. Among those that
were repeatedly mentioned as blocked sites are the National Vaccine
Information Center (NVIC), the site for Gary Matsumoto's book
Vaccine-A, and vaccine expert Dr. Meryl Nass. Nass, one of the
experts whose site has been blocked, points out the real shame in
all of this: "It's unfortunate that the service members who are
defending our civil rights are not afforded the same consideration."
If you're on a base that has blocked websites related to the H1N1
vaccine, I'd love to know what sites are blocked and what base
you're on.
You can contact me directly.
Allen McDuffee, The Huffington Post
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