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Originally posted by phigamucsb
I can't believe some Democrats are outraged that Dick Cheney received a flu shot (the man has had 4 heart operations). As mentioned earlier, Bill who had a heart surgery received one of these scarce flu shot. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a bit hypocritical. Both men exceed the requiremnets set forth by the government to receive the flu vaccine.
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I have not heard politicians criticizing each other for getting flu shots. I have heard the media public announcing which senators/congress members, etc have gotten flu shots, as if you should hate them because they did and some didn't. They have been interviewing them here in Michigan as if they are criminals for getting the flu shots and they are being equally critical of both parties.
As for hoosiers comment about "people will live without a flu shot", unfortunately, that's not true for some in the high risk group. People die from the flu every year.
The only way this should be politicized is for the politicians to be aware that things need to change so that we are not relying on only two companies to provide enough flu shots for our entire country. My broader thoughts have been related to "what if we needed to mass immunize people against a biochemical weapon?". We don't seem to be able to find a logical way to distribute limited flu shots. Can you imagine if we needed to mass distribute small pox vaccines or anthrax vaccines? We don't seem to be ready for this and we should be.
Dee