Chicago Bears Say Flu Shots Only Went to Two Team Members, Both Asthmatics

AP ^ | 10-22-2004

[Captainpaintball]

That's asking too much, don't you think? .

[Libloather]

Why doesn't the headline read: TWO BEARS GET SHOT! COMMUNITY REVOLTS DEMANDING THE SAME TREATMENT!

[berkeleybeej]

Let's see, the Bulls play indoors and the Bears play outdoors most of the time. You do the math.

Inside..outside - doesn't matter. How many people are they exposed to within droplet range of a sneeze? A lot more than the average joe.

Also this article portends a pain in the ass slant of the media...everyone THEY don't deem as worthy of a flu shot (like Cheney fer crying out loud) is going to get pounced on.

[mountaineer]

Where's his flu shot? It was doubtless used by some member of Congress or a Congressional staffer.

Doubtless - I'm sure you have evidence to support your allegation. Is it the responsibility of the federal government to provide flu shots for everyone who believes he needs one? Since when is this an entitlement? My 79-year-old mother got hers, but she called her own doctor and paid whatever the going rate was.

[Not A Snowbird]

I work for the government, and we're not getting shots this year. Those who have a medical need are getting them through their primary care physician.

[Capriole]

Of course I don't suggest for a moment that it's the government's responsibility to pay for my health care. I pay for my own private insurance, thanks. But apparently there is no vaccine to be had in the MD/VA/DC area, for any price, and in light of this fact, it's a bit annoying to see healthy twenty-two-year-old Senate and House staffers getting free shots when at-risk children can't get them. Living close to the Capitol and occasionally working in that neighborhood, as I do, I already witness enough corruption and waste on Capitol Hill to make me chronically annoyed with the profligate antics in Congress.

[Condor51]

Please, please please let Jonathan Quinn get the flu.

Or how about just SHOT!
JOKING

Kidding aside, he is undoubtedly the WORST QB, I've ever seen (that black guy last year doesn't count), Bears or otherwise. Heck, Quinn makes Bobby Douglass look like HOF material in hindsight! (ooooh, those were painful years)

Note to Jerry Angelo: I think I know where Jack Concannon is, and he might even be sober. Want me to find him for you? So what if he's 61, he's better than that brain dead Quinn - even drunk!