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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

Katalyst: Is choking a symptom of H1N1?

AFAIK, none of the SJ Sharks players have H1N1.

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.

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

no, you're thinking of the Leafs