Vaccinate the bankers first
November 6th, 2009 1:08 pm · 6 comments
Simply unbelievable.
Employees of Goldman, the Fed, Citigroup, and other banks are getting H1N1 vaccine allotments out of proportion to what can be justified from a public health standpoint. In particular, Goldman has gotten more than Lenox HIll hospital, which needs it not just for the sick but more important, for workers
Update: More, from Reuters:
New York City health officials scrambled to explain themselves on Thursday in the wake of media reports about bankers who got scarce H1N1 flu vaccines through their employers.
Members of Congress fired off letters demanding immediate explanations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reminded state and city health officers of the need to make sure the most vulnerable people get shots first.
“I am concerned that the distribution of the vaccine is resulting in favored treatment for the privileged,” New Jersey Democratic Representative Frank Pallone said.
Favored treatment for the priveleged? Isn’t that the American way?
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11/6/09
1:15 PM | Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such villany away in one swift tidal-wave of blood -- one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell. There were two "Reigns of Terror," if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror -- that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
- Mark Twain |
Bustina di tè
11/7/09
11:12 AM | Obunko paying back those that brought him to the ball. |
ArtVandolay
11/7/09
11:14 AM | Wow, no mention of Obama in this one? Why isn't Obama on top of this? He's the dictator of change and hope.
I seem to remember a few years back during the "Bird" flu outbreak. The media was all over Bush for slow production and supplies of the vacination.
It was his fault, he wants the children to die the Media proclaimed. He wants the blue states to suffer, they said.
My how things change under a progressive President when the Media and progressive blogosphere have no choice but to protect him. |
BuffaloBill
11/7/09
1:04 PM | I thought those vaccines were bioweapons
who would want to kill all the bankers
probably a conspiracy or an act of terror
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WinstonTheLastHuman
11/7/09
1:29 PM | I thought those vaccines were bioweapons
who would want to kill all the bankers
probably a conspiracy or an act of terror
let's not confuse being well paid with being in the know
remember that the congressional-testifying seven big tobacco ceos were all smokers too
lol |
reese
11/7/09
1:44 PM | I thought those vaccines were bioweapons
who would want to kill all the bankers
probably a conspiracy or an act of terror
LOL. Exactly.
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