This bureaucrat merely allowed hockey players to get jabbed in their arm near their shoulder. Instead of being fired, shouldn't he have gotten two minutes for high sticking?

Socialized medicine on full display.

DslainteC: This bureaucrat merely allowed hockey players to get jabbed in their arm near their shoulder. Instead of being fired, shouldn't he have gotten two minutes for high sticking?

Too bad the shots weren't given to soccer players. They would have rolled around on the floor, clutching their knee.

ne2d: Socialized medicine on full display.

Be more of a tool. I'm not sure how, but keep aspiring to that.

GAT_00: ne2d: Socialized medicine on full display.

Be more of a tool. I'm not sure how, but keep aspiring to that.

Fix your sarcasm detector.

Good, an individual acted wrongly and got sacked. Seems working to me.

ne2d: GAT_00: ne2d: Socialized medicine on full display.

Be more of a tool. I'm not sure how, but keep aspiring to that.

Fix your sarcasm detector.

It doesn't work very well in his mom's basement.

If anybody in Canada should get preferential vaccinations, it's our athletes - I can take a sick day; they can't. I fully support this man's decision.

/Canucks fan
//Caught and survived H1N1 two weeks ago before the REAL panic

echobass: //Caught and survived H1N1 two weeks ago before the REAL panic

You're not fooling anyone, you know.

echobass: Caught and survived H1N1 two weeks ago before the REAL panic

i thought the real panic was in april. or was it in august?.

when was the real panic?

Alberta Health Services has not handled the vaccinations very well. The first week, they were like, "People in the priority categories should get the vaccine first, but we;re not going to turn anyone away." That was their big mistake saying they weren't going to turn people away. So, people who weren't at risk lined up anyway and caused huge lineups and vaccine shortages. And this whole ordeal with the Flames didn't help any. The Alberta gov't really screwed the pooch on this one.

Meanwhile aboriginals in remote communities are getting ill at a disporptionate rate, so we send body bags.

/Yet no one cares . . .
//The treatment is only unfair when your the one at the wrong end of the stick.

Obviously it was a good idea, as the Flames had a comeback victory last night.

He may have made it thru this had he only vaccinated the players. Canadians are pretty serious when it comes to hockey. Shooting up their families is what screwed him. Oh yeah the management too.

Flogster
Meanwhile aboriginals in remote communities are getting ill at a disporptionate rate, so we send body bags.

That's because they won't accept blankets from us anymore...

Flogster: Meanwhile aboriginals in remote communities are getting ill at a disporptionate rate, so we send body bags.


They get sent body bags every year, its standard with remote communities for cadaver storage during the winter.

DslainteC: This bureaucrat merely allowed hockey players to get jabbed in their arm near their shoulder. Instead of being fired, shouldn't he have gotten two minutes for high sticking?

Spearing. 5-minute major and game misconduct.

Flappyhead: They get sent body bags every year, its standard with remote communities for cadaver storage during the winter.

You sure about that? (new window)

Flappyhead: Flogster: Meanwhile aboriginals in remote communities are getting ill at a disporptionate rate, so we send body bags.


They get sent body bags every year, its standard with remote communities for cadaver storage during the winter.

Do they have the yellow-and-blue-make-green seal?

Snarfangel: Do they have the yellow-and-blue-make-green seal?

No, just the stick-and-head-make-mess seal.

Those Swine!

/got nuttin'
//Flames fan
///Slashies!

That whole body-bag situation was a complete farce. The first nations treated it as some sort of insult, yet they failed to mention that they were actually ordered by the nurses in their own community.

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I also heard that the Flames' organization isn't as innocent as they may seem. Apparently management called and called and called until they found someone spineless enough to allow them to get a private vaccination clinic.

fmanning: I also heard that the Flames' organization isn't as innocent as they may seem. Apparently management called and called and called until they found someone spineless enough to allow them to get a private vaccination clinic.

There is no way that someone in the Flames org was not in on this little scam. Of course, without a complicit health official, it is a moot point. I also find it hard to believe players, wives, coaches, etc did not realize they were getting preferential treatment that they perhaps should not have.

I heard from a friend who knows a guy that the Calgary training staff tried to spread H1N1 throughout the visiting team areas before playing divisional opponents

Is choking a symptom of H1N1?

Hiro's Protagonist: I heard from a friend who knows a guy that the Calgary training staff tried to spread H1N1 throughout the visiting team areas before playing divisional opponents

With rabid monkeys, don't forget the monkeys.

I heard it wasn't only the players who got shots. It was the wives, pets, Regehr's ficus and a couch.

Katalyst: Is choking a symptom of H1N1?

AFAIK, none of the SJ Sharks players have H1N1.

J.Garcia'sRightMiddleFinger: fmanning: I also heard that the Flames' organization isn't as innocent as they may seem. Apparently management called and called and called until they found someone spineless enough to allow them to get a private vaccination clinic.

There is no way that someone in the Flames org was not in on this little scam. Of course, without a complicit health official, it is a moot point. I also find it hard to believe players, wives, coaches, etc did not realize they were getting preferential treatment that they perhaps should not have.

Of course the Players, Coaches, etc. knew they were getting preferential treatment. The average person think they are more deserving and more important than the next... not to mention multi-million dollar making players who get paid to slide around on ice and pass a puck around (huge salary for not actually adding value to society)... of course they have a sense of entitlement.

Better hope that no children in Calgary die of H1N1, because I'll be the first to call for Iginla's head.

/Not because I'm an Oil fan.
//OK, maybe a little bit.
///Zombie Jerome would be pretty cool though.

Thousands of other non-high risk people got the shot last week, directly causing the long lines. The Flames got the shot without waiting in as long of a line. I guess people just don't like line-budgers.

my eyes are permanently rolled at the outrage over this.

Heck I even feel bad for the guy who set up the Flames' clinic. He made a mistake, sure, but he got fired because Alberta Health needed a public target to kick.

hockeyfarker: Heck I even feel bad for the guy who set up the Flames' clinic. He made a mistake, sure, but he got fired because Alberta Health needed a public target to kick.

He'll probably enjoy his season tickets anyway.

Rev.K: He'll probably enjoy his season tickets anyway.

Is that for real? I know King said he wanted to help the guy out.

Or are you suggesting there was some kind of nefarious quid pro quo at work?

Dear Everyone,

You're all going to die.

Yours sincerely,
God

PS. Hahaha

damned Calgary keeps collecting overtime loser points

Hiro's Protagonist: damned Calgary keeps collecting overtime loser points

You mean overtime win points

Hiro's Protagonist: damned Calgary keeps collecting overtime loser points

no, you're thinking of the Leafs