Historical plagues taught people of the affected areas much about the incompetency of experts in the realm of medicine, politics, theology, etc., but I’m not sure Americans have learned much.

When major plagues finally and mysteriously left a devastated country, interest in religious matters decreased because many clergymen died, and so many prayers were unanswered. Of course, God-haters have used unanswered prayer as an excuse for unbelief since the beginning of time. J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson wrote, “It is beyond the bounds of possibility for anyone to estimate the influence of epidemic disease on religion and philosophy. Nor can we clearly assess its influence on the material course of human history.”

The Greek historian Polybius (204-122 B.C.), known as the most reliable ancient historian, reported the whole of Greece had been visited in his time by childlessness and a general decline of the population resulting in the emptying of the cities and the failure of the land to render its produce. He said men refused to marry or, if they married, refused to have children. If they had children, they refused to rear them. He said that men went out of their way to be ostentatious, avaricious, and indolent.

Sounds rather contemporaneous.

Several historians believe the Greeks fell to the Romans because of malaria attacks, not marching armies. Malaria was rampant throughout the Greek world by 400 B.C. The malarial parasite killed infants, weakened unsuspecting children, forced the vacating of the best farmlands, and helped reduce Greeks into listless, lazy, and licentious people. As a result, the power and glory of ancient Greece became a mocking memory.

Some historians, in my opinion, give too much credit to the mosquito for the fall of Greece. It was a significant factor, but men must always be held accountable for their actions. Today, a man gets drunk, kills a carload of people, and pleads that he was not in control and should not be held responsible. Others tell us that sugar impaired their ability, and they lost control and should not be accountable for the results they produced. No doubt, there is some truth to those claims. The same was true in Greece. Malaria did make them listless, therefore, lazy, but they chose to be licentious.

In our time, duped, deceived, defiant, and destructive youth are dedicated to destroying our way of life. They are not innocent do-gooders but are devoted to changing our liberty-based government to a Socialist/Communist system. They are the enemy. Others are using the COVID threat to accomplish the same transformation: America should be dismantled or destroyed.

Significant change is happening in America with more changes ahead of us, and if we lose our freedom, the reasons won’t be that important.

The Greeks slowly lost their brilliance, which was thought to be the quintessence of original thought. This degeneration is evident in their art and literature and other areas of creativity. W.H.S. Jones wrote, “Their initiative vanished; they ceased to create and began to comment. Patriotism, with rare exceptions, became an empty name, for few had the high spirit and energy to translate into action man’s duty to the state. Vacillation, indecision, fitful outbursts of harmful activity followed by cowardly depression, selfish cruelty, and criminal weakness are characteristics of the public life of Greece from the struggle with Macedonia to the final conquest by the armies of Rome.”

Sounds familiar.

Francesco de Sanctis, Angelo Celli, and others taught that disease has altered the world’s condition more than wars. Ancient Greece probably would not have fallen into the hands of Rome if it had not been for malaria. Are we not fools if we don‘t consider the same or similar results from possible contagious diseases and biological terrorism we face today?

We can now add AIDS, flu, Ebola, and the Chinese Communist coronavirus to the scourges that have smitten mankind, taking their dreary toll. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reveals 36 million people have died of AIDS! The death toll from Ebola climbed to about 11,000 instead of the 1.4 million predicted by the CDC! Of course, the experts have been wrong numerous times during these COVID days. Even the notorious Bubonic Plague (the Black Death) that wiped out at least fifty million people in Europe during the 1300s has raised its vicious head, especially in Western states such as Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, and California.

Many medical experts tell us another COVID wave has hit us, but we should not worry if we have been vaccinated. However, other medical experts tell us 45,000 vaccinated Americans have died from the COVID vaccines, and that number has been hidden to cover the behinds of experts!

Has COVID taught us to be cautious about depending on the experts who can be weak, willful, whacky, and wrong? And in the case of Dr. Fauci—wearisome. Have we recognized the danger of repressing, ridiculing, and rejecting differing opinions? Are we willing to admit the media has become the enemy or at least is biased and self-serving?

About 85% of the COVID deaths could have been prevented if physicians had prescribed established inexpensive home treatment before the disease took control of patients. Wait until that truth reaches the bereaved relatives of the preventable dead!

The COVID fiasco should convince everybody of the dissension, danger, and deaths from politicizing medicine.

If we don’t learn from pandemic history, we are doomed to repeat it, and it is happening as I write and you read this warning.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for U.S.A. Today for 8 years. Boys authored 19 books, the most recent,  Reflections of a Lifetime Fundamentalist: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets! The eBook is available at Amazon.com for $4.99. Other titles at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don  Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog.  Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support  his work with a donation.)

And there is no vaccine even for the common cold that’s been around for millennia.

If and when a vaccine is available, there are definite indications that everyone will be required to get it. Virginia has already made that decision. And that is the problem before us. After we live through the pandemic and the arguments about masks and lockdowns, now we face the most dangerous part of the battle—telling the do-gooders what they can do with the vaccine.

Mr. Trump will make the biggest mistake of his presidency if he tries to force every American to accept the jab. Trump declared, “Our military is now being mobilized so at the end of the year we’re going to be able to give it to a lot of people very, very rapidly.” Well, Mr. Trump, to quote Samuel Goldwyn, “include me out.” Forced vaccination for the Chinese coronavirus will be divisive, dangerous, and deadly!

And dumb.

I heard Trump say that the vaccination would not be required, but I don’t trust his health advisors at the federal health agencies. Those agencies are snake pits of corruption run by political hacks with medical degrees. None have ever looked a COVID-19 patient in the eye, and few have ever looked a patient in the eyes.

I wonder if Mr. Trump will assure Americans that we will not experience the following for not getting vaccinated: will we be safe from losing a job; losing our insurance or Medicare; have our children taken from us; or be required to have some identification to permit us to buy or sell?

The World Health Organization (WHO) has an Immunization Agenda 2030, in which they’re planning to vaccinate everyone for everything across the globe: “IA 2030 envisions a world where everyone, everywhere, at every age, fully benefits from vaccines to improve health and well-being.”

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the biggest funder of the WHO, and Gates intends to vaccinate the global population against COVID-19.

Many federal health officials’ eyes glaze over when they think and speak of financial benefits for COVID-19 research and treatment. Hospitals have been making huge profits from Medicare patients, as revealed by Senator Scott Jensen, Republican from Minnesota, on Fox News. He reported that hospitals are paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having the Chinese coronavirus and three times the normal price if they are put on a ventilator. This is what prompted the minor scandal recently when so many hospitals were listing suicide, heart deaths, etc., as COVID-19 deaths. One man died in an auto accident, another died of a heart attack, another died of gunshot wounds, yet all three were listed as having COVID-19.

Follow the money; after all, it’s yours.

However, it is not only local hospitals reaping the profits of death but federal health officials who are embedded with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institutes for Health (NIH), and the World Health Organization (WHO). The CDC is the federal agency responsible for directing, developing, and deciding on safety and efficacy. In simple terms: does it work, is it safe, and is it really necessary?

And, in a jaded moment, I will suggest that another prerequisite is that it must be expensive. The history of vaccines and drugs has revealed that safety and effectiveness are sometime disregarded, but they are always expensive.

It is a fact known by all informed people that all drugs and vaccines are not safe for everyone. Many people have died or been harmed for life because of a bad reaction to drugs or vaccines. No health expert on earth will guarantee you that you will be safe by getting a vaccination. Drug and vaccine manufacturing companies are protected by law from being held legally accountable for any harmful reactions. Wonder why that is true if they are safe. A firm that needs such protection does not overwhelm me with confidence.

Moderna has been developing a COVID-19 vaccine with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of help from the federal government. Moderna received a $483 million award from U.S. taxpayers in April, and the award could eventually be “worth about a billion.”

There is already a safe and effective treatment for the Chinese coronavirus, specifically, Hydroxychloroquine known as HCQ combined with azithromycin and zinc. To be effective, the patients must be in the early stage of the disease. Many physicians have treated hundreds of patients, many of them with additional health problems, with outstanding success. One Texas doctor has treated almost 400 patients with HCQ and has not lost a patient! Another physician has treated more than 700 patients and only lost one patient. The drug is sold over the counter in some nations and has been used safely for more than 65 years.

So, why isn’t every physician prescribing HCQ to COVID-19 patients? Dr. Fauci says that it has not had supervised clinical trials. Wait a minute. Many doctors who deal with dying patients are using it successfully. Well, yes, but the CDC doesn’t have a patent on the drug. Could that be the motive for Dr. Fauci to ridicule it at every opportunity? Moreover, Dr. Fauci and other critics have never treated a Chinese coronavirus patient.

Fauci has recommended the very expensive remdesivir drug owned by Gilead Sciences. It is declared that Fauci and the CDC have no financial interests in that company, and that may be true. However, could Fauci and the CDC downplay other drugs because they have put everything on the expected vaccine? And will any federal health agency or person have any financial benefit from its sale? Wow, that could be billions of dollars; and maybe as important, a Nobel Prize for Dr. Fauci.

The global vaccine market is showing some escalating growth, and it is expected that it will reach total revenues of nearly 60 billion U.S. dollars this year. Some of that will reach the hands of federal health officials who sit in judgment as to whether it is safe and effective! In 2016, the CDC made 137.8 million from royalty income. In total, 56 individual patents were found to be owned or shared by one or more members of the committees within the CDC. I believe that is called a conflict of interest.

If force is used to vaccinate everyone, it will make criminals out of Trump’s best supporters and may put some of us in jail. One of my readers said if Trump’s federal troops try to force him to be injected with mercury, he will inject the injecter with lead. Both mercury and lead are lethal. Forced vaccinations mean many will be shot, really shot!

Since I believe the vaccine may be worse than the disease, I will refuse to be vaccinated, although I’m convinced Trump’s advisors will recommend draconian measures to force me (in a free society) to capitulate. I would not even consider getting vaccinated if I were given the right answers to these questions: does the vaccine contain mercury, formaldehyde, or any human cells? What evidence is available that it will work? What proof is there to know it is safe? What are the full results of the tests? If you have a negative reaction such as being paralyzed, who pays, and how much? Why can’t we have religious objections since they are available in other matters?

I hope Mr. Trump will promise not to force free citizens to have a chip implanted or number tattooed on the hand or forehead.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent being Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! The eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

You decide—or wait for a jury’s decision. A thorough investigation may discover Fauci guilty of all charges, or guilty of some charges, or totally innocent of criminal accusations.

Whatever reason, Tony should be terminated at least for some of the following.

Dr. Judy Mikovits said she cooperated with the FBI during an investigation of Dr. Fauci and the National Institute of Health (NIH). She alleged Fauci was a “workplace tyrant who was under investigation for swiping scientific research, covering up tainted vaccines, doling out lucrative federal grants to feckless cronies, and much more.”

It gets worse, but remember her charge is not a conviction. Also, one’s gender alone is not a guarantee of honesty.

Let’s begin with a very personal question. I want to know if Dr. Fauci supports the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation that 4-year-old children should be taught about masturbation? A simple yes or no will be sufficient. Moreover, I assume Fauci believes, as most sane, sensible people do, that not only is the subject not part of the health field but is the responsibility of parents and preachers, maybe psychologists and philosophers.

Another query is, why did the NIH in 2014 give $3.7 million of taxpayers’ money to the Wuhan lab in China? Such grants were prohibited in 2014. Did President Obama grant an exception? We know the money was given to a corrupt rogue organization, but did Obama authorize it?

We are still waiting for an answer, even a lame one.

Fauci said on February 29 that malls, gyms, and movie theaters were acceptable activities, and March 9, one could even attend large rallies and go on cruises. However, in a CNN interview, he said otherwise. The interviewer said, “You and other top officials wanted to recommend social and physical distancing guidelines to President Trump as far back as the third week of February, but the administration didn’t announce such guidelines to the American public until March 16th almost a month later. Why?”

He gave a non-answer that would only satisfy an indulgent wife.

Fauci’s emails show his inability to make sane decisions since he often told Hillary or her lawyer how much he loves her. “I Love Her More Than Ever.” He has shown that he has no discretion in whom he places confidence, such as his long time confidence in the very famous, failed, and flawed Professor Ferguson.

Fauci said on February 15 that the risk from coronavirus was “minuscule.” On March 15, he told Jon Karl on ABC that the U.S. could expect up to 1.7 million coronavirus deaths! On March 30, he stated that deaths could reach the infamous 2.2 million mark without mitigation! He had taken flawed information from the now-disgraced London epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College. The latter estimated that there would be “2.2 million dead people in the U.S.” from the coronavirus.

Newsweek reported of Ferguson’s fall from power when he “resigned from his position advising the British government after he broke social distancing rules with his married lover” during some illegal visits with her. Note that the disgrace was not having an illicit affair with a married woman but breaking social distancing law that he had recommended. Ferguson had recommended to London officials that people must stay home except for getting food, exercise, and other essentials. I suppose spending “quality” time with his lover could qualify as exercise.

Ferguson is known as Professor Lockdown.

His lover said she did not feel like a hypocrite in breaking the law based on what her lover had helped establish in Britain since “she considered the [two] households to be one.” Of course, a husband and wife have always been considered as one, but not two unmarried lovers, each with a family. That has always been known as adultery.

Moreover, it is interesting that Ferguson resigned in disgrace from his government consulting position, not his position at Imperial College. The college assured all Englishmen that he “continues to focus on his important research.” I really don’t think his focus was research.

Ferguson’s specialty is in modeling for statistical purposes that has proved to be outrageously wrong. His fellow-modelers ridicule him saying, “Ferguson has been wrong so often that some of his fellow modelers call him, The Master of Disaster.” Yet, Dr. Fauci makes decisions based on his work!

Ferguson was Fauci’s source for his wildest guesstimates. Fauci has finally settled on a new guess. He said in an interview on CNN, “Looking at what we’re seeing now, I would say between 100,000-200,000 [deaths].” No, one more guess. The Daily News reported on April 9 that he guessed America’s deaths “from upward of 240,000 [down] to 60,000.”

The number of deaths has reached 90,000; however, that number must be very flexible because they are counting deaths caused from other diseases. Much more money, honey.

President Trump should not trust Fauci’s leadership when he has chosen sources carelessly and government officials made decisions that affect millions of innocent people based on bad guesses.

Why did Fauci balk when asked about the value of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), as a cure for the Chinese coronavirus when his own organization NIH knew it was an effective inhibitor of coronaviruses since 2005? The NIH on August 22, 2005, reported in Fauci’s Virology Journal under the heading, “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.” The explosive report revealed, “We report…that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage.” It would cure and prevent a SARS-CoV infection.

But, here’s the kicker: If the treatment is used at the first symptoms, it has been 100% successful in treating about 500 coronavirus patients, according to Dr. Vladimir Zelenko in March. Zelenko said, “We have had ZERO deaths, ZERO hospitalizations, and ZERO intubations. In addition, I have not heard of any negative side effects other than approximately 10% of patients with temporary nausea and diarrhea.”

Did Fauci sneer at the proven success of HCQ because of financial interest in the Remdesivir vaccine that he was promoting at that time? The cost for HCQ is only $20 and is generic so any company can produce it, but for little profit. Do Fauci and his buddies at the CDC have their sights on a new drug or vaccine with astronomical profit potential?

This answer may require more than a yes or no reply.

Let me preempt the obvious probable “answer” that a VA study showed the treatment was ineffective; however, that is somewhat distracting and disingenuous if not dishonest since the hugely successful drug was given in the VA study only when the patient was at the point of death! Furthermore, the HCQ was administered without azithromycin and zinc, which form a very effective combination. The proper protocol requires it to be administered at the beginning of the illness, not the end when the death angel shows up at the patient’s door.

The VA is still using the drug but not according to the proper protocols since “its use was now limited to extenuating circumstances, such as last-ditch efforts to save a coronavirus patient’s life.” Hey guys, follow the directions if you expect success. Lives are being lost unnecessarily.

One more HCQ expert is Dr. Didier Raoult, called “the Anthony Fauci of France,” who had spectacular success using HCQ to treat victims of SARS-CoV-2. Raoult said way back on February 25, that “it’s game over” for coronavirus. He and a team of researchers reported that the use of HCQ administered with both azithromycin and zinc cured 79 of 80 patients.

Fauci’s former collogue, Dr. Judy Mikovits, charges: “The AMA was saying doctors will lose their license if they use hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug that’s been on the list of essential medicine worldwide for 70 years. Dr. Fauci calls that ‘anecdotal.’ It’s not storytelling if we have thousands of pages of data…this is essential medicine, and they keep it from the people…that’s exactly what’s going on with COVID-19. The game is to prevent the therapies until everyone is infected, and then push the [new] vaccine.”

Since Fauci likes to answer questions, I would like him to go into detail with that charge from a former colleague.

In Dr. Mikovits’ explosive YouTube that has been removed, she claims that Fauci and other top officials at the HHS, CDC, NIH, and NIAID all destroyed her life because of her scientific paper (which conflicted with the scientifically accepted but not scientifically proven AIDS’ message). She alleges Fauci demanded to see the as yet unpublished article. When she refused, Fauci had a hissy fit (my characterization for a screaming fit) right there in the office.

Consequently, Dr. Mikovits alleges she was arrested without a warrant and taken from her home and held in jail for five days without charges as the scientific Gestapo continued looking for her notebooks she was accused of taking from the lab. Subsequently, she was forced into bankruptcy and gagged for five years. She said Fauci directed the cover-up claiming fraud, and all the health officials were being paid big bucks to continue the cover-up and persecution of her. She charged, “Millions of dollars in funding were used to fund that cover-up by Fauci’s organization, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.”

The hassled, harried, and hated scientist said, “millions of people died of AIDS because U.S. health officials held up my paper. The present head of CDC Robert Redfield was involved.”

I’m sure a simple yes or no will not be a sufficient answer.

Fauci is a researcher, not a dedicated family doctor or surgeon. He knows nothing about taking out your appendix, and I would not trust him to take out the garbage. Moreover, he has no training in or experience in city or state management, the economy, or the history of social and health decisions on population centers, or societal impact on government lockdowns.

In light of the above, if proved in court, he should have some experience with a personal lockdown.

At least twenty years.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

No doubt, many dedicated people work at the CDC; however, flawed people often become corrupted people when there is a threat to their status, their salary, and their success. This column and future columns will look closely at that possibility with federal health officials.

An attorney friend of mine who is a Harvard-trained Christian activist (not many around anymore) sent me a revealing email in response to one of my recent columns. He sued a Michigan hospital and the Centers for Disease Control on behalf of a female nurse who was fired by a Michigan hospital for declining to take a series of flu vaccinations. Her refusal was based on religious and health reasons.

She charged that the hospital, state health officials, and the CDC did not “fully disclose dangers, per Informed Consent rules.” She maintained that she had a right to be fully informed about the risks and side effects of the flu vaccine. That was not done.

The CDC estimates up to 35 million people contract the flu each year, and up to 700,000 will end up in the hospital. Moreover, “An estimated 12,000 to 56,000 people die each year from the virus.” However, another report reveals, “the highest annual average [death] toll was 48,614” in 2003-4. The numbers from 2017-2018 are “45 million infections, 810,000 hospitalizations, and 61,000 deaths” in America.

As to the vaccine’s effectiveness, a 2019 National Public Radio report reveals, “The vaccine’s ability to prevent flu cases last year hovered around 44 percent overall; it was about 59 percent effective in young children and just 16 percent in adults over 65.” You can get much better odds in Las Vegas.

Now you know why health care workers, as well as this writer, adamantly refuse to get a flu shot.

Everyone knows that some people are allergic to some vaccines; other patients may be recovering from an illness and too weak for foreign objects to be injected into a compromised body. We are assured that maybe one in a million will die of the flu shot, and others will be disabled while still others may suffer after-effects for months. However, if I am the one in a million, the odds don’t matter. I’m still dead. I don’t like the odds.

Health officials tell us that one possible problem with flu shots is the Gullian-Barre Syndrome (GBS) which results in 13% deaths and 20% or more disabilities with the inability to work for a year because of the syndrome. One does not know if he or she will die from a shot or be incapacitated or simply be uncomfortable for a few days. Does the individual take that risk, or does the all-powerful state decide that important personal decision?

No one on the face of the earth can guarantee the safety of any medicine or vaccination. A person must have the right to decide for himself or herself or their child as to what is put in their bodies. After all, anything can go wrong, and the law protects the vaccine maker and the health official who injects the victim—or patient if you insist.

Laws in all states require numerous vaccinations before a child can enter school, and many of those shots are mandated at an early age—the flu shot now given at six months! Moreover, multiple shots for childhood diseases are given at one time. Few ask if the child has been sick or is allergic to anything, nor do they inform parents of the vaccine’s ingredients. Few notify the parent of the risks and his or her legal rights for compensation if an injection goes awry.

Dr. Sherri J. Tenpenny reminds us that vaccine injuries are “rare,” but few reactions are accepted by the CDC as being caused by vaccines. They always look for other reasons, according to Tenpenny, to keep the numbers down, and if a vaccine is not on this list, it will not be permissible to sue for compensation. In a private letter, Dr. Tenpenny quotes the CDC Pink Book, “[M]any temporally associated adverse events probably represent background illness rather than illness caused by the vaccine.” If a child has an adverse reaction to the DTaP shot and has brain swelling within three days of the shot, a parent can sue; however, if the symptoms start on the fourth, fifth, or sixth day, there is no resort in the courts. Many times a physician illegally refuses to inform the CDC of any vaccine reactions.

Vaccine refusers are ridiculed and characterized as rebels, lawbreakers, and know-nothings who need to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century. I’m not going. I have a civil, human, religious, and legal right to decide what goes into my body. Thugs, tyrants, and totalitarians tell me I don’t. Most states have removed religious and philosophical reasons for refusing vaccinations, keeping only medical ones.

However, those same people tell me that a fornicating woman has a right to chop up, poison, or rip an unwanted child out of her womb, but I can’t decide what goes into my body.

That is atrocious!

We are told that an American has a right to decide to blow out his brains or to take a simple pill and go quickly and quietly into the dark night of eternity. He or she has a right to die but does not have a right to refuse a shot that may kill or injure him.

That is abhorrent!

We are told a boy, pretending to be a girl, against the wishes of a parent, has a right to take body-changing hormones, and have various organs chopped off, followed by further physical and emotional mutilations. But he does not have a right to refuse a shot.

That is appalling!

But the shot must go on. After all, very big bucks are involved. Plus, petty tyrants don’t like to hear the word no from their subjects.

Ordinary, decent people can disagree about vaccinations as to the age and health of the recipient, the number of shots given at once, the vaccine ingredients, reasons for refusing the shot, etc.; however, no sane person can agree with the legitimacy of a shot being forcibly administered. Now, a short dude (not referring to Dr. Fauci) in a fancy uniform, a funny mustache, and a foreign accent might argue such a case, but no rational person would do so.

My former lung specialist always closed our appointment with chart in hand as he smilingly said, “I assume you’ve already had your flu shot”—knowing for years my decision not to get shot. My current specialist doesn’t even ask the question.

ABC News reported on January 3, 2012, about Indiana University Health Goshen Hospital firing eight employees, “including at least three veteran nurses, after they refused mandatory flu shots.”

The hospital said they were concerned about “patient safety based on recommendations from the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” The hospital said 95 percent of their 26,000 employees statewide complied with the order. The math reveals that 1,300 employees did not comply, but only eight were fired. No reason was given. Why the erratic treatment?

Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., said, “I cannot think of a reason for any health care professional to decline influenza immunization that’s valid.” Well, this is America, and each person should have the right to choose what goes into his or her body.

Or, maybe shot-decliners simply want to take a stand for their own independence and tell arrogant authorities and employers that the patient will make their own health decisions. It might be a religious objection. Or, maybe they are concerned about some of the vaccine’s ingredients such as mercury, formaldehyde, aborted baby material, etc.

Physicians and nurses are supposed to follow the first rule of medicine: “First, do no harm,” but they defend forcibly injecting a patient with a Jim Jones Kool-Aid concoction blended and produced by Jim Jones and Associates.

Final thought: since health experts can be (but are not always) lazy, stressed, angry, incompetent, dishonest, or arrogant pains in the posterior, you must take care of your health and always get a second or even third opinion.

I’ve given you mine.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for eight years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)