They'd be better off spending their money on bullet-proof.

Vests.

/Whoops.

Hopefully the health care workers who administer the vaccine to the fat cats will make them bend over and take the little pricks in the ass.

Turnabout is fair play.

See? They really are better than we vermin.

If only we had known earlier they were such high risk. We certainly wouldn't have given them any money.

No, it's distributed to their company nurses, and, presumably, those doses go to their employees in the "high risk" pools. (Pregnant women, young 'uns, vice presidents...)

Sounds like Morgan Stanley donated their vaccines to area hospitals..like Morgan Stanley's Children's Hospital. I think that's a good thing, but I'm not sure. I like conspiracies..

Could some one please explain to me why this H1N1 thing is such a big deal?

If they weren't high-risk before, they are now.

Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to investigate why the Center for Disease Control (CDC) approved the distribution of the H1NI vaccine to Wall Street firms at a time when the vaccine is unavailable to most Americans.

Because those people are better than you.
Get used to it, you whiny poor people.

(Troll, troll, troll your thread...)

MDGeist: Could some one please explain to me why this H1N1 thing is such a big deal?


No.

That reminds me, I need to invest in a pitchfork company.

The complaints about the distribution of swine flu vaccine reminds me of the joke from Annie Hall

-The food was terrible.
-Yes. And such small portions.

And the Santayana joke:

-There is no God and Mary is His mother.

Which are both variants of the famous Groucho Marx gag about not wanting to belong to any club that "would have me as a member."

If you guys don't want the vaccine, let it drop already.

TheBitterest: They'd be better off spending their money on bullet-proof.

I agree with you 100

MDGeist: Could some one please explain to me why this H1N1 thing is such a big deal?

its not. we just love fear mongering!!

/Panic, please Panic

All those companies are based in New York City. If you've been here, you know how tightly packed in we are, and our food is frequently handled by people without health insurance and who can't afford to take a sick day. Living in one of the five boroughs, especially Manhattan or Brooklyn, should probably be its own risk category. For everything.

Headline forgets Hockey Players and Basketball Pylons, aka the Calgary Flames and the Toronto Maple Leaf's.

You f*ck up the economy, you go to the back of the line for health care and basic human rights.

/I guess
//Never understood liberal "logic"

MDGeist: Could some one please explain to me why this H1N1 thing is such a big deal?

If you're in a high-risk group, it's a big deal. If you're not, it's just a deal.

Well, both articles only ever state that we gave them to the companies... which isn't a horrible idea. I assume we gave them to the companies to administer to certain individuals.

Obviously, they probably did vaccinate the higher-ups since they only gave the companies a couple hundred vaccines, but you can't exactly ASSUME that.

*in before any Canadians start snarking on the USA, cuz, well, we farked this up too.*

Obama's Pay Czar did not cap Goldman Sachs executive pay, either. Conservitards' fault, surely.

Why not? They got distributed at University of Phoenix Online where you know the contact is high with the students on a day to day basis.

/400K+ students...makes sense

Should be a fun story to follow. Twittered* this with #swineflu - hopefully will pick up.

/yes, twittered.
//what of it?

Rich people usually manage to get a better quality of service from most agencies, government agencies included. You can't really whine about it when they get it from a private agency, but when they get it from a public agency that we all were compelled to pay into on the promise of equal treatment, yeah, you can whine. And yeah, this will happen under a public health insurance option, and it will happen when healthcare is ultimately completely socialized.