Goldman Sachs! According to Reuters:
New York City health officials scrambled to explain themselves on Thursday following outraged media reports about bankers who got scarce H1N1 flu vaccines through their employers.
Members of Congress fired off letters demanding immediate explanations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reminded state and city health officers of the need to make sure the most vulnerable people get shots first.
“I am concerned that the distribution of the vaccine is resulting in favored treatment for the privileged,” New Jersey Democratic Representative Frank Pallone said.
The shortage of H1N1 vaccines has frayed nerves, and public health departments across the country say they will not be able to meet the bulk of the demand until December or January.
A classic in government incompetence. First, they don’t have anywhere near the amount of vaccine that they promised; they’re a factor of 10 too low. Then they can’t deliver the vaccine until well after the peak of the flu season. And finally, who gets it first? The government’s friends on Wall Street. They get it before the local hospitals.
Two things:
- Be glad that the vaccine is mostly unnecessary anyway.
- Note that these are the people who want to run the entire health care industry in the country.
Government is fucked, incompetent and entirely too expensive. But we haven’t the spine to get rid of it or even trim it back.
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#1 by Mitch on November 5th, 2009
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After researching the vaccine issue in depth, I have concluded their efficacy to be at best, questionable in nearly all cases. I have also concluded that they are quite dangerous to the general health of ones body and mind. There are mountains of evidence supporting this with numerous doctors and scientists having substantial first hand experience with tragic and needless human destruction from vaccines.
Having said that — I say, inject the wall street dudes with a quadruple dose. (Perhaps I’m not so nice) They’re neck deep in this fractional banking fraud and have hung their failures on our backs. Courtesy of our all wise and knowing rulers. (Yeah)
#2 by Mitch on November 5th, 2009
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Mark,
I would like to add that I certainly am not an expert on vaccine issues. I have simply made my choice based on the evidence that I have studied and I am comfortable with it.
The vaccine issue can stir heated emotions on both sides and I wish to avoid this. If some person decides that they want to inject themselves with monkey part distillates or chicken egg puss. It’s none of my business.
There, I feel better now that I’ve cleared the air, in fact I’m feeling all a flutter.
Thanks much.
#3 by Mark on November 5th, 2009
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Unfortunately, no one is an "expert" on the swine flu vaccine. The ongoing mass inoculation is an experiment. Let’s hope nothing goes wrong.
But it is curious that the regular flu is said to kill 30,000 people a year, while the swine flu kills many less. Yet the government is panicked over swine flu and hardly mentions the other. Smells very fishy.