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Anxious Crowds Meet Ad Hoc Swine Flu Police
NY Times ^ | 10/27/2009 | Jennifer Steinhauer

Posted on 10/27/2009 8:52:38 PM PDT by Saije

The top public health official in Los Angeles County stood at a swine flu vaccination site in Compton, Calif., on Tuesday and gently told elderly residents that they really ought to go home.

“I explained to people 65 or older, ‘The reason we are doing this is for children,’ ” said the official, Jonathan E. Fielding, the director of the county’s Department of Public Health. “I told them: ‘They are at very high risk for this flu, and you’re at low risk. I am sure you wouldn’t want to get a shot that left a kid who is at risk in harm’s way.’ ”

People have lined up in Southern California and across the country in recent days in the hope of getting a prick in the arm, but a dearth of the H1N1 vaccine has created an unexpected dynamic: local government officials, hospital workers and doctors in private practice are being conscripted as ad hoc swine flu police.

The goal is to make sure that those Americans with the highest risk for contracting the virus — and experiencing the more dangerous complications that can ensue — get injected first. But the somewhat willy-nilly nature of the vaccine’s distribution in some areas, publicity surrounding President Obama’s declaration of a national emergency and the rather large population legitimately considered high risk have brought hundreds of thousands of people to vaccine distribution points.

Some people beg. Some reduce themselves to lying about a pregnancy, or an underlying medical condition, that would move them ahead of the pack. In any case, officials say it is virtually impossible to verify most of the claims.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: adhoc; anxious; crowds; flu; h1n1; health; influenza; meet; police; shortage; swineflu; vaccine
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To: Freddd
"The ‘elderly’, came through the Great Depression. They know what it’s like."

I'm really more than fed-up with that canard repeated by two generations of NIMBY, HOA hag, corporate-government employee/retiree, selfish socialists, who call themselves conservatives. A man or woman would have to be 93 years old to have been 18 years of age during the last year of the Great Depression!

No Baby Boomer lived at all during the Great Depression. Most of those who came at least ten years before the oldest of Baby Boomers are gone.

I'm a Baby Boomer. Our elders, who have passed away, were right! We are spoiled rotten! Most of the teens now are not, as most of them are far poorer than we have been and no more libertine.


21 posted on 10/27/2009 10:05:44 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: Saije

This is practice for when officials and docs have to tell old people they aren’t going to get any health care and are turned away to die. Same story: you don’t want our limited health care dollars being denied to the children do you?

Liberals love this. The ultimate power! Scare people to death of a “deadly flu” and then deny them a vaccine when they show up for it. That is the ultimate bossiness - authority. Sitting in power of life and death - every liberals’ wet dream.


22 posted on 10/27/2009 10:21:12 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

“Sitting in power of life and death - every liberals’ wet dream.”

Not just a dream anymore.


23 posted on 10/27/2009 10:22:54 PM PDT by Saije
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To: fullchroma

Death Panel by Fiat


24 posted on 10/27/2009 10:31:11 PM PDT by Semperfiwife (I, my children and my grandchildren are NOT Obama's ATM!!!!)
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To: Dallas59

Anyone who is scared into getting the vaccine and shows up to get in line only to be told by some fascist pig to get out of line, should raise cain that they don’t have enough -they are too stupid and incompetent - to even get enough vaccine for those who want it. It’s not Bush’s fault! This is Obama’s Katrina. Europe managed to do it. Canada managed to do it. Third world sick freaks running our government manage to screw it up - plus give away 10% of our shortage in vaccine to the UN!


25 posted on 10/27/2009 10:32:54 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Saije
My seven year old girl (diagnosed H1N1) seems to have given me an ad hoc vaccination, so the shot is moot. She is getting better and I am starting to run a slight fever and sore throat. NAC, Elderberry, and D3 to the rescue.
26 posted on 10/27/2009 10:45:25 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: Saije

I have had the flu for the last week, was able to do a couple of hours work yesterday and today, mostly its the chest congestion and welding really aggravated it so thats why I’m still basically staying at home for now.

52, no shots, lots of vitamin D at least 4000 units, garlic and Vitamin C, drinking pink grapefruit juice.

My 15 year old son had it and had high fever, only lasted a couple of days, seems that the older you are the less it affects you though it may affect you a bit longer.


27 posted on 10/27/2009 10:54:29 PM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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The top public health official in Los Angeles County stood at a swine flu vaccination site in Compton, Calif., on Tuesday and gently told elderly residents that they really ought to go home.

i guess the death panels have already started.

this should be pointed out to Sarah/Rush/Beck/etc

28 posted on 10/27/2009 10:54:50 PM PDT by sten
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To: Saije

BTTT


29 posted on 10/27/2009 11:37:39 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Vendome

What better way to cut Medicare/Medicade costs?

Just let the elderly with underlying ailments get the H1N1 and die....

The Obama administration is totally inept at everything other than travel and security plans for the POTUS and his family, so he can continue to “campaign” for socialism.


30 posted on 10/28/2009 4:00:33 AM PDT by octex
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To: octex

I saw that on the news this morning. The bureaucrats did not handle it well, at all.

I could have explained it better but the way they came off it was like “Surely you wouldn’t want a child to suffer or die, would you? You are not that cold and heartless, are you?”

Fact of the matter is people look out for themselves and many times rightfully so.


31 posted on 10/28/2009 7:26:31 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Vendome

Besides, the sooner you useless eaters die, the less of a burden you will be on the system....


32 posted on 10/28/2009 7:53:17 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 279 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Saije

My allergist told me that anyone over 50 has already had swine flu 2-3 times.

Not exactly this particular variety, but swine flu nevertheless, and that I should not worry about getting it.


33 posted on 10/28/2009 10:59:15 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Saije

“Not just a dream anymore.”

They hope for that change of control over the lives and deaths of all Americans based on their control of health care and doctors. However, they are going to meet a wall because we are not going to put up with that elitist oppression. They will be dead if they try to kill people on a systematic basis. There are more they want to kill than there of of them who enjoy killing.


34 posted on 10/28/2009 11:10:44 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Saije
YouTube: Charlton Heston discovers Soylent Green's AWFUL TRUTH..!
35 posted on 10/30/2009 3:21:04 PM PDT by gaijin
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