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    Fall's Hottest Accessory: Swine Flu Vaccine

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    Image of VailBabalistic VailBabalistic
    09/11/09

    In reply to Fall's Hottest Accessory: Swine Flu Vaccine
    all of the info says the vaccine won't be ready until mid-October. I work for a public health agency and we don't even have it yet.
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    Image of gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy
    09/11/09

    @VailBabalistic: My husband has it in his office already.
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    09/11/09

    In reply to Fall's Hottest Accessory: Swine Flu Vaccine
    So white dudes can get pity laid this winter by pitching it as ' the last time I ever get some'? Also, isn't anyone worried that an over 24 die-off will bring us into a Logan's Run scenario?
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    Image of gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy
    09/11/09

    In reply to Fall's Hottest Accessory: Swine Flu Vaccine
    My husband has the vaccine in his office already, and will be giving it out to his elderly patients first - yes, he takes Medicaid/Medicare; he is a Socialist that way.

    My son had the Swine flu, and other than the slightly porcine nose he aquired, it was no different than any other flu.
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    09/11/09

    In reply to Fall's Hottest Accessory: Swine Flu Vaccine
    Hey let's all panic about it!
    And actually the expected peak is before even the high-risk group will be covered by the six-week process of hoped-for immunity.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    09/11/09

    In reply to Fall's Hottest Accessory: Swine Flu Vaccine
    I think it's going to be two shots. Just saying.
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    Image of Tara Incognita Tara Incognita
    09/11/09

    In reply to Fall's Hottest Accessory: Swine Flu Vaccine
    I am pregnant. My stepbrother is a nurse, and he said no way, no how should I get the vaccine...it just hasn't been tested as much as he'd like to see in groups of pregnant women. Which means I'll be having an annoyingly uneventful winter at home, trying to avoid crowds.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    09/11/09


    @Tara Incognita: Well, that's all fine and good, so long as you're stepbrother won't mind babysitting his stepnephew.
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    Image of Tara Incognita Tara Incognita
    09/11/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: We'll name her Petunia, obvi.
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    Image of Tara Incognita Tara Incognita
    09/11/09

    @Tara Incognita: And I should add that I normally vaccinate myself when need be, as well as my toddler.
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    Image of NiceEnough NiceEnough
    09/11/09

    @Tara Incognita: But don't you know that causes like autism or something? I heard that. From Jim Carey. Trust.
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    Image of Tara Incognita Tara Incognita
    09/11/09

    @NiceEnough: I get all my health information from washed-up celebrities' girlfriends. Durrrr.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    09/11/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: This picture will haunt my dreams tonight.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    09/11/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Then my work here is done.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    09/11/09

    In reply to Fall's Hottest Accessory: Swine Flu Vaccine
    They're using highfalutin' reverse psychology. If you tell the white man he can't have it, he wants it. See?
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    09/11/09

    In reply to Fall's Hottest Accessory: Swine Flu Vaccine
    Does fulfilling the role of "freelance angel of death" at various nursing homes make one a "health-care worker"?
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    Image of partypants partypants
    09/11/09

    In reply to Fall's Hottest Accessory: Swine Flu Vaccine
    As a middle aged white man I find this appalling.
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    Image of nozer nozer
    09/11/09

    @partypants: As a middle aged white man, I find most things (that don't benefit me) appalling.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    09/11/09

    @partypants: I find it appalling that I just discovered you're a middle-aged white man.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/25/09

    In reply to We Have Swine Flu to Look Forward To
    As long as it's not going to be like Andromeda Strain (How has Michael Crichton become younger and better looking over the years, btw? [www.michaelcrichton.com])
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    Blood turning to lik-m-aid, laser beams slicing through you as you climb each level... the horror... the horror.
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    Image of GoEliGo???? GoEliGo????
    08/25/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Apparently dying helps.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/25/09

    @GoEliGo????:

    Shit. Missed that part.
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    Image of gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy
    08/25/09

    In reply to We Have Swine Flu to Look Forward To
    Having just spent over a week taking care of a very ill 11 year-old with Swine flu (thanks, sleep-away camp!), may I say - it's not fun to have. He's been well for about four days, and is still sleeping 12-14 hours a night and has very little energy. I suspect I may be next on the list,though I have lysoled everything I can find to spray.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    08/25/09

    In reply to We Have Swine Flu to Look Forward To
    Days of swine and vax doses?
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    08/25/09

    In reply to We Have Swine Flu to Look Forward To
    dying is better for the economy.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    08/25/09

    In reply to We Have Swine Flu to Look Forward To
    As long as the survivors do not include M. Night Shyamalan and Mel Gibson, who will inevitably collaborate on a movie using the Swine Flu as a metaphor for some annoying Christian thing, there isn't all that much to worry about in this scenario.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/25/09

    In reply to We Have Swine Flu to Look Forward To
    Hey, Browncoat, healthcare insane-o-maniacs! What happens when all the uninsured walk around and start cough-spewing all the pig air onto your lumberjack flannel ma and pa shirts, sickifying you and your town mob, and you can't use the "dang internet" to find Obama birth conspiracy theories and generally confirm to all other nations that we are, in fact, hyper-idiots who let the fringey, wacky, bubblefucks out there dictate health care? What happens then, robo-brains?

    Yes, we're all going to die, but it will be because Zippyhat the town drunkard/hobo sneezed on everyone at the Citgo station since he didn't deserve healthcare.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    08/25/09

    @Spirit Fingers:

    A pandemic would actually kill health insurance reform. Granola-eating Prius drivers waiting behind ZIPPYHAT? What is this, the MIDWEST? Town drunks only happen in Kansas and *dismissive hand motion* you know, Brooklyn!
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/25/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: Oh, there’s a Zippyhat in every town, and he likes to hang out at the Citgo. And those fringe-folks who are soo not driving a Prius or eating granola unless there’s salted-meat involved, enjoy saying things on CNN like, "Here in ‘ol Texarkcana, we bring guns e’rywhere…town hall meetings, the Piggly Wiggly, Lurleen’s baby shower…it’s just what’s done here."

    And, yah, I disagree. I'd like to know that anyone who was sick would be able to receive healthcare no matter their station in life. You know what happens when you mix scores of the uninsured with a plague? Europe in the 1340's.

    Oh, the government will eventually step in, but not before dozens of people could receive medical care from a treating physician first, early on.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    08/25/09

    @Spirit Fingers:

    Never forget how good Europe in the 1340's was for the survivors. Or Europe in the 1940's, for that matter. Both extermination-level events that blew markets open and created huge opportunities for those that remained.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    08/25/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: Sooo, that means... lets have a pandemic, kill off some 90,000 people so it'll be easier to buy jeans at the Gap? I'd rather not be in that majority that ends up vomiting blood, just so the minority can eat Cinnabons with extra frosting. (I'm exaggerating here, but you know, extermination-level makes me think of population control in order to seize market stabilization.)
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