Yeah that is quite stupid having vaccines open to all the public. It has kind of died down off the news here, since the first lots of vaccines came in. Eg. There's no real news of how many are dying from it. Though in some cases healthy people have, its less severe than people first thought it was going to be.
I hope you can get a vaccination sometime soon. :/
Yeah that is quite stupid having vaccines open to all the public.Yeah. I mean, they're saying 400,000 people have gotten the vaccine in my province, or something like that. And the health minister is like, "Well, that's 400,000 people who won't be in hospitals!" Except most of them wouldn't be likely to be in hospitals, anyway - hell, it's notable that LOTS of healthy seniors (waiting in lines in little chairs they brought) have gotten the shot. They're like the lowest-risk category
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I looked up the status of our vaccines and that and we have priority to the at risk groups being (students obviously, and pregnant women, and susceptible elders) held over the general public.
They should set half your clinics aside for the at risk groups to either have walk ins or bookings so they don't need to stand in the case of the those harder to keep in line people you mentioned.
they need to keep to their diets and stuff - and there's obviously no FOOD in those 8-hours-last-I-heard line-ups Again. O_o What is it with some of these organizations, they hardly seem rationally organized at the best of times...
Well, I think that more people going in more recently knew the line-ups were getting longer. Some people were apparently camping out overnight, so I think they must have had some sort of plan in terms of food, bottled water, etc.
But...obviously that food can't be stuff that would go bad or need to be cooked. People are probably eating a lot of high-sugar junk.
I know I can survive just fine for 8 hours on a few bags of chips (because I have), but nothing but junk for that long obviously isn't going to work for someone with special dietary needs.
3. Apparently the idea was that healthy people would have the good sense and sense of common decency to stay home and let others who really NEED the vaccine go get it first.
Relying on the general public to have common sense and decency rarely ends well. In other news, idky, but I always thought you lived in Toronto.
Well, I've talked to some people who now say they regret getting it. Like, if they had known this all would happen, they would have not gotten it and left that dose for someone who truly needs it.
But a lot of people went and got it simply because our government has been telling people for weeks that there's enough for everyone, everyone come get it. People believed that, so they went to get their shot.
In other news, idky, but I always thought you lived in Toronto.
*DEAD* Most Westerners would consider that a mortal insult! Especially Albertans - Edmonton and Calgary loathe each other, but they are united in an even greater loathing for Toronto.
I'm not really one of them, since I tend to agree with the East that Alberta is full of bigoted hicks...but it's still terribly funny that you thought I lived in Toronto, specifically. LOL.
actually, if it helps, I know a few people who have been verified to have had it at work and they said it was pretty much like every other flu they've ever had. I know that doesn't take into account your lung issues, but according to the docs I know, it hasn't turned out to be quite the monster they originally made it out to be.
Yeah. I've heard that, too. I think the thing that scares people the most is just that it's unpredictable. Like, I've already heard of two totally healthy people who got it and dropped into comas within a couple of days.
The detail that is upsetting me the most is how badly and how quickly H1N1 is supposed to impact your respiratory system if you do develop a worse case of it. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't really even be bothering with the shot at all.
I mean, I never get the regular flu shot. I never get the flu, and I don't entirely trust vaccines after other reactions I've had to standard ones.
I'm hoping my, "never get the flu," luck just continues to hold. Heh.
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Yeah that is quite stupid having vaccines open to all the public.
It has kind of died down off the news here, since the first lots of vaccines came in. Eg. There's no real news of how many are dying from it. Though in some cases healthy people have, its less severe than people first thought it was going to be.
I hope you can get a vaccination sometime soon. :/
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I looked up the status of our vaccines and that and we have priority to the at risk groups being (students obviously, and pregnant women, and susceptible elders) held over the general public.
They should set half your clinics aside for the at risk groups to either have walk ins or bookings so they don't need to stand in the case of the those harder to keep in line people you mentioned.
they need to keep to their diets and stuff - and there's obviously no FOOD in those 8-hours-last-I-heard line-ups
Again. O_o
What is it with some of these organizations, they hardly seem rationally organized at the best of times...
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But...obviously that food can't be stuff that would go bad or need to be cooked. People are probably eating a lot of high-sugar junk.
I know I can survive just fine for 8 hours on a few bags of chips (because I have), but nothing but junk for that long obviously isn't going to work for someone with special dietary needs.
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Relying on the general public to have common sense and decency rarely ends well. In other news, idky, but I always thought you lived in Toronto.
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But a lot of people went and got it simply because our government has been telling people for weeks that there's enough for everyone, everyone come get it. People believed that, so they went to get their shot.
In other news, idky, but I always thought you lived in Toronto.
*DEAD* Most Westerners would consider that a mortal insult! Especially Albertans - Edmonton and Calgary loathe each other, but they are united in an even greater loathing for Toronto.
I'm not really one of them, since I tend to agree with the East that Alberta is full of bigoted hicks...but it's still terribly funny that you thought I lived in Toronto, specifically. LOL.
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The detail that is upsetting me the most is how badly and how quickly H1N1 is supposed to impact your respiratory system if you do develop a worse case of it. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't really even be bothering with the shot at all.
I mean, I never get the regular flu shot. I never get the flu, and I don't entirely trust vaccines after other reactions I've had to standard ones.
I'm hoping my, "never get the flu," luck just continues to hold. Heh.
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