(USA Today) Senior staff member for Alberta Health Services fired for giving swine flu shots to Calgary Flames players, their families, and management, while thousands waited in line at public clinics
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
DslainteC
2009-11-05 10:49:27 AM
ne2d
2009-11-05 10:56:58 AM
Snarfangel
2009-11-05 10:57:32 AM
Too bad the shots weren't given to soccer players. They would have rolled around on the floor, clutching their knee.
GAT_00
2009-11-05 11:09:12 AM
Be more of a tool. I'm not sure how, but keep aspiring to that.
ne2d
2009-11-05 11:14:30 AM
Be more of a tool. I'm not sure how, but keep aspiring to that.
Fix your sarcasm detector.
BackAssward
2009-11-05 11:23:22 AM
jehovahs witness protection
2009-11-05 11:29:25 AM
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.
echobass
2009-11-05 01:24:54 PM
/Canucks fan
//Caught and survived H1N1 two weeks ago before the REAL panic
Snarfangel
2009-11-05 01:59:40 PM
You're not fooling anyone, you know.
fruitloop
2009-11-05 02:19:55 PM
i thought the real panic was in april. or was it in august?.
when was the real panic?
CraicBaby
2009-11-05 02:23:37 PM
Flogster
2009-11-05 02:25:57 PM
/Yet no one cares . . .
//The treatment is only unfair when your the one at the wrong end of the stick.
rbaron71
2009-11-05 02:36:35 PM
softshoes
2009-11-05 02:37:55 PM
bnobody
2009-11-05 02:42:04 PM
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...
Flappyhead
2009-11-05 02:54:52 PM
They get sent body bags every year, its standard with remote communities for cadaver storage during the winter.
Manfred J. Hattan
2009-11-05 02:58:01 PM
Spearing. 5-minute major and game misconduct.
Flogster
2009-11-05 02:58:49 PM
You sure about that? (new window)
Snarfangel
2009-11-05 03:00:05 PM
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?
Flogster
2009-11-05 03:01:54 PM
No, just the stick-and-head-make-mess seal.
Edgewood Dirk
2009-11-05 03:15:23 PM
/got nuttin'
//Flames fan
///Slashies!
fmanning
2009-11-05 03:18:36 PM
Article
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.
J.Garcia'sRightMiddleFinger
2009-11-05 03:24:46 PM
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.
Hiro's Protagonist
2009-11-05 03:39:52 PM
Katalyst
2009-11-05 04:11:04 PM