Why Your Kids Missed Those Flu Shots
(Medical • Government)
The other day, the mayor of the upscale Houston suburb of Sugar Land found himself a dose of flu vaccine, had it administered in front of the cameras and turned the event into a tone-deaf press release, urging his fellow citizens to follow his example and in fact get two vaccines from their doctors right away – one for the seasonal flu and one for the swine flu.
As noted here at the time, neither vaccine was available to most of his fellows – thanks in great part to government ineptitude and free-market forces gone awry.
But it’s nice to know that, while many of the 25 million residents of Texas have already contracted swine flu while waiting for the vaccine cavalry that never arrived, at least some high-risk citizens have found inoculation against the Pig Plague:
Employees of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Time Warner and several other big New York companies. Cross my heart. You just can’t make up stuff like this.
Even though it sounds like something out of the Black Helicopters Subscription Service, the same Centers for Disease Control that couldn’t get any swine flu vaccine into the Lone Star state before every cowboy caught the pandemic nonetheless managed to help get the vaccine into the veins of elite private employers – many of them, coincidentally, the same ones we bailed out with billions of our tax dollars after they blew up the financial system.
Obviously, then, if you’re Johnny Nobody out in the sticks, or if you’re unemployed anywhere – or even if you have an OK job right there in Emerald City – you’re just not quite as good as the citizens at JPGoldmanCiti, riding First Class and disease-free with Jesus, on the backs of the New American Peasantry.
Bitter? Who’s bitter?
→ B.Dunn, Nov 08, 2009, 05 01 am
A young healthy guy I know recently bragged at a meeting that he had gotten the shot from a “doctor friend” who had only a few doses. The pregnant gal sitting next to him was apalled because she had not been able to get the shot for herself or her kids. Believe me it is not just the rich and the famous.
— lonely rivers Nov 8, 09:42 am #
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The rich and the Congress (even though most are rich).
— Robert Williamson Nov 11, 09:13 am #
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