Who gets the flu shot? Grandma or Grandpa?

[Guaranteed]

What a horrible choice to make.

Thanks a lot, Bush.

[still_one]

1. This is the bush solution to social security

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. I have an immune deficiency. I am going it this year without one because

people are camping out at 2 AM in these parts for a shot. It's not worth exposing myself to gosh knows what for 8 hours only to be turned away. Lots of handwashing and a bottle of anti bacterial lotion for me this year. :hi:


You said it. Thanks Bush.

[Shopaholic]

3. I'm on an immune-suppression therapy

for arthritis and I desperately need a flu shot and am considered high priority for one. Even my own doctors can't tell me where to go to get one! That's how bad it is here where I live (and everywhere else from what I can tell). There is no coordination going on locally, no identifying who has the flu vaccine and who doesn't, despite what the * White House is trying to spin and saying the CDC is "coordinating" and "tracking" availability. The bottom line is that people are waiting hours on line all around the country and that people have died in line waiting to get one! And this president was told three years ago that our flu vaccine supply was vulnerable and did NOTHING about it! He and his administration of war criminals and goons probably figured "Hey, it knocks a few more old people off the social security rolls and leaves more for us to plunder!" That being said, I'm glad I work at home and don't have to be out in the public this flu season a whole lot.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. My rheumatologist tried to get shots for us. No dice. It's difficult, and

scary, because who knows what my 6 year old will bring home from school this year. We've really been trying to emphasize handwashing to him for Mommy's sake.

[REP]

5. I Got Mine Thursday from My Internist

I have Kaiser, and when I went in for an appointment last week, I got my shot while I was there (I'm considered ultra-high risk). For those lucky enough to have insurance, check with Internal Medicine; they may have received the doses.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Nope. None here in Michigan that I care to wait 6+ hours for.

:hi:

[Stephanie]

7. So if this were a bio attack by terrorists

We would be f*cked. Americans would die while BushCO flew off to a secure location.

[blondeatlast]

10. Try calling the county or state health department.

I have diabetes and am being treated for heart disease so I MUST have one whatever the cost.

I was able to find locations offering them by calling my county health department, but they warned me of long, long waits. Fortunately, I lucked out even more because the city I work for is still going on-location to offer them to high risk people, so I will have mine on the 28th.

Good luck and prayers to those who need them, I know just waht you are going through.

[bigtree]

8. This is what infuriates me

about the attitude of the media toward this election. There is a mindless sing-song atmosphere about the race and for millions of Americans the choice could literally mean life or death for them or their loved ones. I am truly sorry to see good people suffer because of the negligence or indifference of these republican charlatans. Most of those who are playing games with this election in the news won't have to make the choices that average Americans are being forced to make about their basic health needs. There will be real choices made at these clinics that aren't entirely their fault.

This didn't have to happen!


Flu Vaccine Allocation in Area Haphazard
No System Exists for Haves to Share Supply With Have-Nots

By Susan Levine
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 16, 2004; Page A01

The Accredited Allergy Center of Springfield is taking a hard line. Only its patients and no one else, no matter how much others suffer from asthma or related respiratory conditions, will benefit from its 300 doses. "A lot of them have family who want but can't find it," office manager Patti Bailey said. "There's a lot of people trying to use the sympathy ploy. I had one woman say, 'My grandmother's on oxygen. Can she get a shot?' Another lady wanted her daughter, who's pregnant, to get one. We're hearing everything."

More than ever, in medical ethicist Mary Ann Baily's view, the situation has exposed Americans to a fragmented, uncoordinated system of health care delivery. She wonders whether it is a portent of what the country would face in a bioterrorism incident. "This should be a wakeup call," said Baily, of the Hastings Center in New York.

After his second trip to the supermarket, Leo Lutwak took matters into his own hands. The retired physician went to the drugstore and bought several surgical masks. He also got a prescription for Amantadine, an antiviral medicine that can help alleviate flu symptoms.

Once the season really hits, he'll put on a mask any time someone comes to visit him, and he'll fill the prescription, "get my dozen tablets." Just in case, though, he will also make sure his funeral plans are in place.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36664-2004Oct15.html

[Guaranteed]

9. Well, the thing about this problem is that it's one that hits

home with real people. It's a problem that real people encounter- just like the price of gasoline.

People will notice whether the media wants them to or not. Any media coverage is really just supplemental- we've already had enough to put it in their heads that it's Bush's fault. It's only up to them now to go down to the clinic and see for themselves.

[DinahMoeHum]

11. AFAIAC, this is another nail in Bushco's coffin.

:evilfrown: