Can’t Get Your H1N1 Vaccine? Thank Obama
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But do you really need the damn thing?
A great deal of fuss has been made the last few days about the unavailability of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccine. For whatever reason, the manufacturing companies aren’t getting it out fast enough. The whole situation has gotten completely out of control; here is why.
To start with, If you are one of the people complaining…. unless you have a pre existing medical condition that makes you a greater risk, you are an idiot. I just got done with H1N1, as did my three children. My 11 year old has a good solid case of Asthma, and my youngest is only three. We were sick for a good four days; sniffles, achiness, a bit of puke, a lot of poop. Some fever. In other words, we had the damn flu. We treated using extraordinary experimental treatments… blankets, sleep, juice, thera flu, and chicken noodle soup. In 999 cases out of 1000, this is the flu. The hospital in our town of 20,000 has, in fact, stopped even bothered testing for the thing. Why? Because, again… It’s just the damn flu!
But for some reason, Our president (who, for the record, I agree with far more often than not; this is not an Obama bashing piece) in his infinite wisdom, decided to stand up and declare it a ‘National Emergency’, thus sending millions of boneheaded hypochondriac Americans into a vaccine craving frenzy. The logic of this eluded me. All it has done, as far as I can see, is create still another financial windfall for the pharmaceutical companies. It isn’t as if you can run to Wal Mart and shop around; as usual, monopoly conditions are firmly in place. The ultimate seller’s market, created by a very poor presidential decision.
So of course they aren’t hurrying. Why should they? As is usually the case, they have us exactly where they want us. Nice work, President Obama. You really dropped the ball on this one.
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thanks president obama
I’d rather risk getting the flu than take the vaccine. I’ve heard some bad things about it.
Succinctly put. I can see where this situation could be used to help push his health care bill through, which is simply a catalyst for socio-economic shift in this country from capitalism to socialism. One more way create the feeling of dependency. That’s the only by-product I can find in this National Emergency.
I am with Darla on it. I got done with the H1N1 a few weeks ago. Yes it is exactly like the flu, another media hype thing.
Very interesting. Great job.
You made some great points and I am not interested in the flu shot. I think it has been over-hyped.
earlier this week I waited in a line at a baseball stadium as the health department distributed Vaccines to high risk people.( I have a 10 month old child and several people at my wifes work have come down with the h1n1 one of their kids actually ended up in the hospital with it) The vaccine was provided at no cost to me. I think it is kind of ridiculous my child’s physician could not get any medication and I had to go wait in a line with 3000 people just to get a shot for my child. I would have gladly paid for the vaccine if I could have avoided that scene.
The people running it did as good as they possibly could have they had water and police and kept the lines moving but if that is what the future of health care in America is going to be I will pass.
1 thing to note is the disease is extremely dangerous to pregnant women. If you are pregnant you should definitely get the vaccine. There is an unusually high number of fatalities among pregnant women.
great article
3,600 people died of the flu last year.
It happens, relax its called natural selection.
But no one wants to be selected.
Antivax stupidity–you know who you are.
Vax problem as a strong argument for health care reform:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091116/ehrenreich
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Denis Sweatt’s comment is humourous but true.