Now if only they could work on an HIV vaccine for the back seat.

It really should be that easy. It's a pinprick and it takes 2 seconds. 4 counting band-aid.

I have never had the flu, I'm some kind of typhoid mary.

jaylectricity: Now if only they could work on an HIV vaccine for the back seat.

I see what you did there

Efficiency is so great...


gotta wear shades.

University of Illinois? Like I'm going to trust elitist libs at some fancy pants college. That's not for real Americans. I'll wait until the board of directors at my job approves what clinic to use. Yeah libs, a job, why don't you go get one!

The Champaign- Urbana Public Health District has been preparing for a pandemic such as swine flu for five years, perfecting the process with seasonal flu drive-through clinics.

The free market strikes again. Take that, libs.

LarryDan43: University of Illinois? Like I'm going to trust elitist libs at some fancy pants college. That's not for real Americans. I'll wait until the board of directors at my job approves what clinic to use. Yeah libs, a job, why don't you go get one!

That's about as weak as they come.

Trolling really has gone downhill.

meh, sounds like a supply/demand issue, plain and simple. They're probably more lucky than anything else.

Plus 45 minute wait, since when does it take 45 minutes to go through a drive through at McDonalds?

Down the Slippery Slope: LarryDan43: University of Illinois? Like I'm going to trust elitist libs at some fancy pants college. That's not for real Americans. I'll wait until the board of directors at my job approves what clinic to use. Yeah libs, a job, why don't you go get one!

That's about as weak as they come.

Trolling really has gone downhill.

This. 0/10.

LarryDan43: University of Illinois? Like I'm going to trust elitist libs at some fancy pants college. That's not for real Americans. I'll wait until the board of directors at my job approves what clinic to use. Yeah libs, a job, why don't you go get one!

Thank Jesus for real Americans like yourself. I'm so sick of those Libs with all their big fancy words from "colleges" like this communistic dump.

That's the hiney virus to you!

farkerts: meh, sounds like a supply/demand issue, plain and simple. They're probably more lucky than anything else.

Plus 45 minute wait, since when does it take 45 minutes to go through a drive through at McDonalds?

A few McDonalds' in the area are bombarded at lunchtime, and the drive-through line will go into the street. Granted, it's not necessarily 45 minutes, but it's possible.

/I'm the guy in front of you that orders his cheeseburger with only ketchup

The English Major: farkerts: meh, sounds like a supply/demand issue, plain and simple. They're probably more lucky than anything else.

Plus 45 minute wait, since when does it take 45 minutes to go through a drive through at McDonalds?

A few McDonalds' in the area are bombarded at lunchtime, and the drive-through line will go into the street. Granted, it's not necessarily 45 minutes, but it's possible.

/I'm the guy in front of you that orders his cheeseburger with only ketchup

Hope you tell them to hold the spit. Not that they would, of course.

Make your kids cry on the go! I imagined it being way more awesome, though. Like you drive up to a window and they shove a needle in your arm then you drive off.

LarryDan43: University of Illinois? Like I'm going to trust elitist libs at some fancy pants college. That's not for real Americans. I'll wait until the board of directors at my job approves what clinic to use. Yeah libs, a job, why don't you go get one!

Wendy's Chili: The free market strikes again. Take that, libs.

Would either of you fine, upstanding gentlemen define which "libs" you appear to be talking about? Because apparently they are different.

Subby should be made aware that, for all purposes except legal ones, Champaign and Urbana are the same town.

Huh, H1N1 is so October. Around here (new window) is seems the danger is dwindling.

My uncle is the Public Health Director for neighboring Vermilion County, and I bet he'd be happy to tell everyone about the funding disparity between Champaign County, where the University of Illinois is, and Vermilion county, which is where most of the evictees from the Cabrini Green housing project ended up.

TsukasaK: LarryDan43: University of Illinois? Like I'm going to trust elitist libs at some fancy pants college. That's not for real Americans. I'll wait until the board of directors at my job approves what clinic to use. Yeah libs, a job, why don't you go get one!

Wendy's Chili: The free market strikes again. Take that, libs.

Would either of you fine, upstanding gentlemen define which "libs" you appear to be talking about? Because apparently they are different.

I'm going to guess those comments were tongue in cheek, not weak attempts at trolling.

BikerRay: Huh, H1N1 is so October. Around here (new window) is seems the danger is dwindling.

Dwindling but not solved. Canada and it's socialized medicine can't solve this problem so the we have to leave it to the free market down here.

I could make some snarky comment about vermin / vermilion.
But I won't.

I live in Champaign-Urbana, so I'm really getting a prick out of these replies.

likefunbutnot: My uncle is the Public Health Director for neighboring Vermilion County, and I bet he'd be happy to tell everyone about the funding disparity between Champaign County, where the University of Illinois is, and Vermilion county, which is where most of the evictees from the Cabrini Green housing project ended up.

I thought most ended up in Rockford.

My wife and I got the swine flu vaccine a couple weeks ago. (We've got a kid under 6 months of age in the house, and she's in hospital ERs because of her job.) The line was probably 200 people long but we only waited about 15 minutes. I was amazed that the State of PA could do something so efficiently.

I had to drive over 30 miles to some iffy doctors' office to get an H1N1 shot, and then less than a week later I saw a counter at O'Hare Int'l Airport that was giving 'em out by the dozens. It's so random.

warblgarble!

take that, libs!

The Icelander: My wife and I got the swine flu vaccine a couple weeks ago. (We've got a kid under 6 months of age in the house, and she's in hospital ERs because of her job.) The line was probably 200 people long but we only waited about 15 minutes. I was amazed that the State of PA could do something so efficiently.

This. Took myself and the little one to the Penn State Brandywine clinic. Thanks to offering the forms online, I had them all filled out before we got there. I even ended up coming early, and they saw us right away. We were in and out in no less than ten minutes. I was amazed.

Down the Slippery Slope: LarryDan43: University of Illinois? Like I'm going to trust elitist libs at some fancy pants college. That's not for real Americans. I'll wait until the board of directors at my job approves what clinic to use. Yeah libs, a job, why don't you go get one!

That's about as weak as they come.

Trolling really has gone downhill.


I think he was just making a joke. At least that's how I read it.

I don't care if you wear a tinfoil hat, a flag lapel pin or a Che Guevara T-Shirt. I just got over the H1N1 and I don't wish it on anyone - like that withdrawl scene from Trainspotting, plus a 103-degree fever.

So, go get a shot, and bring a friend.

rockmeamadeus:
Dwindling but not solved. Canada and it's socialized medicine can't solve this problem so the we have to leave it to the free market down here.

You do realize H1N1 made the rounds back in the 1970s as well? It's basically just this year's flu strain. It just happens to have a catchy and fearmongering name. It will be back around again I'm sure.

/brb dying of SARS

I'm recovering from H1N1 at the moment, so I'm getting a kick....

Actually, no. It's not nice, because I'm an old farker and it's gone for my lungs. I collapsed on Friday night after an awful asthma attack and fell, banging my head and breaking my nose.

Of course, being the Nanny State you'd think that the NHS would deliver my Tamiflu on a golden cushion carried by two nubile nurses, but no. The missus had to go 15 miles by bus to pick it up (because I'd fainted on Friday, I can't drive for a few days lest I visit a farmers' market or something).

Over the worst now, and I'm looking forward to my appetite to return. I'll teach the farking pigs. I'm going to eat nothing but bacon for weeks.

Bastards.

LarryDan43: likefunbutnot: My uncle is the Public Health Director for neighboring Vermilion County, and I bet he'd be happy to tell everyone about the funding disparity between Champaign County, where the University of Illinois is, and Vermilion county, which is where most of the evictees from the Cabrini Green housing project ended up.

I thought most ended up in Rockford.

I thought most ended up in Bloomington.

Our health department is running free H1N1 clinics in the schools for the kids. They were very efficient - no waiting at all (except for the 15 minute post-shot sit-on-the-bleachers-lets-see-who-passes-out wait. Drama...)

Only, kids under 9 are supposed to get a series of two shots. And the school is only giving one. And since my kids are in the lowest risk category, they can't get one in the doctors' office.

Oh well.

Down the Slippery Slope: LarryDan43: University of Illinois? Like I'm going to trust elitist libs at some fancy pants college. That's not for real Americans. I'll wait until the board of directors at my job approves what clinic to use. Yeah libs, a job, why don't you go get one!

That's about as weak as they come.

Trolling really has gone downhill.

I don't think there is any way LarryDan43 thought he'd get any serious bites; sometimes one doesn't intentionally put on the air of a troll to mock one. I personally tire of this "is a serious troll or seriously just stupid" game myself and could use some straightforwardness in snark from time to time.

5/10- not a troll score, a general posting score. Extra points given for not necessarily playing the same game every feels the obligation to play in political threads lately.

rockmeamadeus: I'm going to guess those comments were tongue in cheek, not weak attempts at trolling.

Damnit, that's the second time today. I think I need more coffee.

Yep, unless you know you can't tell where Champaign (pro business/development) starts and Urbana (commie/socialist/think Berkeley)ends. Parents buried there but nothing to do with flu.

Glad to see my alma mater doing something productive.

/Hail to the Orange

This is where I got my vaccination.

I ordered NO ONIONS, dammit.

LarryDan43: likefunbutnot: My uncle is the Public Health Director for neighboring Vermilion County, and I bet he'd be happy to tell everyone about the funding disparity between Champaign County, where the University of Illinois is, and Vermilion county, which is where most of the evictees from the Cabrini Green housing project ended up.

I thought most ended up in Rockford.

Nah, we got our fair share down here in Bloomormal, too.

Oh yeah, Go Illini/Mckinley Health Center!

out here in Iowa = no lines.

It was in a church though...So I burst into flames before ever even getting the shot...

/despite that statement, I really do find it very nice that churches are opening their doors as facilities to this.

dobedobeDUE: Oh yeah, Go Illini/Mckinley Health Center!

I'd rather go to the public health dept. than McKinley, and I sort of work there. I'd swear my PCP got his MD in the mail. Picture Dr. Nick Riviera, but Filipino.

Your comparison of Champaign/Urbana is pretty asinine, by the way. There's a fair amount of shopping coming up over here. The major development problem in Urbana is that the downtown is choked by the courthouse - we're full to the brim with law offices.

Of course, Chamapaign had the brilliant development idea to put all of the shopping in one place, where traffic was guaranteed to bottleneck across I-74. Six of one...

Ive gotten my last 3 flu shots through a drive thru type system. My mom works for the public school system in OK and this is how they set it up for school employees/family. it works really great

You're NOT gonna stick that thing in MY HiNi.

likefunbutnot: My uncle is the Public Health Director for neighboring Vermilion County, and I bet he'd be happy to tell everyone about the funding disparity between Champaign County, where the University of Illinois is, and Vermilion county, which is where most of the evictees from the Cabrini Green housing project ended up.

I lived in Danville for a couple of years right after college, and I had to get into the habit of explaining that yes, I was from "Chicago" (apparently I have a giveaway accent) but no, I wasn't unemployed. If I didn't I got the stinkeye or bad service just because of how I talk. They really don't like people from the Chicago area in Vermilion county.

That entire area is a pit though. Champaign, Charleston, and Bloomington are the only bright spots in the abscess of central Illinois.

"the process in Champaign took 45 minutes"

I always sit in my car at a drive-thru for 45 minutes.

I had a flu or cold this weekend. It sucked. Still sucks. I'm not sure what I had, so it's probably still worthwhile to get all the vaccines, eh?

Jubeebee: likefunbutnot: My uncle is the Public Health Director for neighboring Vermilion County, and I bet he'd be happy to tell everyone about the funding disparity between Champaign County, where the University of Illinois is, and Vermilion county, which is where most of the evictees from the Cabrini Green housing project ended up.

I lived in Danville for a couple of years right after college, and I had to get into the habit of explaining that yes, I was from "Chicago" (apparently I have a giveaway accent) but no, I wasn't unemployed. If I didn't I got the stinkeye or bad service just because of how I talk. They really don't like people from the Chicago area in Vermilion county.

That entire area is a pit though. Champaign, Charleston, and Bloomington are the only bright spots in the abscess of central Illinois.

Yeah, most of the state hates Chicago. I'm originally from northwest Illinois (think near Galena) and went to school down at UI. I did kinda feel bad that there was so much Chicago hate there.

Then again, if I had to hear one more Chicago prick complain about the smell of the south farms I think I'd probably go nuts.

THAT smell was from the south farms??? I thought that was the football stadium.