Forced Vaccination in Florida: Get your duct tape and plastic ready, here comes the monster under your bed

President Bush is expected to approve soon a national pandemic influenza response plan that identifies more than 300 specific tasks for federal agencies, including determining which frontline workers should be the first vaccinated and expanding Internet capacity to handle what would probably be a flood of people working from their home computers.

The Treasury Department is poised to sign agreements with other nations to produce currency if U.S. mints cannot operate. The Pentagon, anticipating difficulties acquiring supplies from the Far East, is considering stockpiling millions of latex gloves. And the Department of Veterans Affairs has developed a drive-through medical exam to quickly assess patients who suspect they have been infected.

The document is the first attempt to spell out in some detail how the government would detect and respond to an outbreak, and continue functioning through what could be an 18-month crisis, which in a worst-case scenario could kill 1.9 million Americans. Bush was briefed on a draft of the implementation plan on March 17. He is expected to approve the plan within the week, but it continues to evolve, said several administration officials who have been working on it.
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What You Need to Know About The Proposed Model State Emergency Health Powers Act in Your State [must read]

2001 Draft of the MSEHP Act [pdf]

Florida Law on Mandatory Vaccination and Quarantine [the heart of the text is at the bottom of page 5 and the top of page 6]

CRS Report - Mandatory Vaccinations: Precedent and Current Laws. January 18, 2005

Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency
By creating a federal agency shielded from public scrutiny, some lawmakers think they can speed the development and testing of new drugs and vaccines needed to respond to a bioterrorist attack or super-flu pandemic.The proposed Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency, or BARDA, would be exempt from long-standing open records and meetings laws that apply to most government departments, according to legislation approved Oct. 18 by the Senate health committee.Those exemptions would streamline the development process, safeguard national security and protect the proprietary interests of drug companies, say Republican backers of the bill. The legislation also proposes giving manufacturers immunity from liability in exchange for their participation in the public-private effort. "There is no other agency that I am aware of where the agency is totally exempt either from FOIA or FACA," said Pete Weitzel, coordinator of the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government.

Department of Health and Human Services: Pandemic Planning Update, March 13, 2006

pandemicflu.gov
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Now, with all this said, this past Saturday the head of the CDC said this:

“There is no evidence it [avian flu] will be the next pandemic, there is no evidence it is evolving in a direction that is becoming more transmissible to people.”

And this was published today:

HANDWASH KILLS BIRD FLU BUG IN 30 SECONDS

Legislation currently on the Senate's Calendar, the Project Bioshield II Act of 2005, not only shifts liability of drug manufacturers in the event of a suit to the United States (read: don't even try brining that), but would raise the fines and possible jail time for violations of a quarantines from $1,000 and one year to $250,000 and 10 years [see Sec. 2503 (a)(1)]. Your only recourse for wrongful detention would be to file a writ of habeas corpus...and we know how those are handled currently...