Wednesday, November 11, 2009

C'mon people; this is ridiculous

All the panic over getting vaccinated. I went tonight with the two kids. They are still only vaccinating "high risk" patients. I'm considered high risk as is Sam. Kamryn is not. I brought her anyway because they claimed they would not turn away school age children (who are it seems considered high risk if I drive 45 minutes away). Daniel came with us but didn't get the vaccine because he isn't high risk and didn't want to take the vaccine from people who needed it.

Last Friday public health released a statement that they thought they were done with all the high risk patients in our area but couldn't release to the general public until they got permission from the provincial government.

Tonight we arrived for our vaccine. There were 5 people in front of us in line. I stalled because I had put numbing cream on the children's arms about a half hour before we got there and it needed to be on for an hour for it to take full effect. The room was PACKED... with public health nurses and security guards. Barely anyone was there to get a shot. Just a bunch of clinic staff (about 40 people) sitting around doing pretty much nothing. Ummm... come on! First there were horrendous lines and awful stories about people waiting 6 hours to get vaccinated and then being turned away and now while there are still millions left who want a vaccine, while vaccine is still available (although speculation is they will run out next week) the clinics sit empty.

I'm beyond incensed.

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