Fairfax Clinic this weekend for 6-36mo and pregnant women

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Anonymous wrote:Good grief, people on this board will take a contrary position on anything, just to be contrary.

The clinic has 10,000 doses. That means they are probably expecting 10,000 people to receive the vaccine, possibly on saturday. Of those 10,000 people, many are going to be toddlers. So you are talking about what, a thousand families with toddlers trying to constrain them in a long line for a long time by bodily holding the kids/holding them by the hand? Would it really have been so hard for Fairfax County to use one of the zillion handicapped accessible buildings here in the county?

Sorry but the no stroller decision is just plain stupid. They should also implement no milk, no snacks, and no diaper changes on the premises while they are at it. Let's really have fun with this one....

What about sending DH ahead to hold your place? Much better than being strapped in a stroller for hours anyways.

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Anonymous wrote:I think they can't help it because there are stairs to be navigated. Should the have perhaps chosen an accessible location for the flu clinic????? Sigh.

Well, you would think that a government building (the Taj Mahal of government buildings at that) would be ADA compliant.

Do you really think that the building isn't' ADA compliant??? Give me a break.

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Anonymous wrote:I planned to send my husband ahead so he can stand in line. We assume the line will be several hours long. Once he starts getting close, he will call me and I'll bring our toddler to him so he can get his vaccination.



Get ready for some unhappy people. Not saying what you're doing is wrong, but I bet others in line won't like it, even if you are 9 months pregnant.



What is wrong with this? We have ONE toddler that is getting a vaccine. One. I'm not, my husband isn't. Who cares who holds the spot in line?



Oh, so you're not even pregnant! Tisk-tisk. People are really not going to like this...

Didn't you hear?? The new CDC rules indicate that all toddlers must stand outside in the rain for 3 hours before getting the vaccine. If their parents find someway to avoid the long wait, they are IMMEDIATELY disqualified from getting the shot.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they can't help it because there are stairs to be navigated. Should the have perhaps chosen an accessible location for the flu clinic????? Sigh.

Well, you would think that a government building (the Taj Mahal of government buildings at that) would be ADA compliant.

Do you really think that the building isn't' ADA compliant??? Give me a break.

It was a joke!

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Anonymous wrote:Why don't people just go to PG County or DC, where the clinics have had much lower attendance? Are the suburbanites too scared?

It's the same vaccine and much less crowded. I don't get why people want to subject themselves to the madness.

I just assumed that these other clinics had residency requirements. If not, then I'm happy to make the drive.

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I disagree with the person who said this is organized. The original clinic was supposed to be for kids 6 months to 18 years!!! They did not get enough shots. The stroller policy is awful and I cannot believe they did not get any perservative free vaccines. There is a LARGE and ever growing population of kids on the autism spectrum in this county and I highly doubt any of us parents of kids on the spectrum want out kids to have a shot with mercury in it, even if our kids did not regress post vaccines.

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I agree. This is NOT organized. There are other counties that have already vaccinated most of their elementary school kids. What is wrong with FFX county? They are WAY behind.

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Anonymous wrote:I disagree with the person who said this is organized. The original clinic was supposed to be for kids 6 months to 18 years!!! They did not get enough shots. The stroller policy is awful and I cannot believe they did not get any perservative free vaccines. There is a LARGE and ever growing population of kids on the autism spectrum in this county and I highly doubt any of us parents of kids on the spectrum want out kids to have a shot with mercury in it, even if our kids did not regress post vaccines.

Give me a break. What are they supposed to do. Do you think they sent back the preservative-free injectable or any vaccine at all. They got what they could get and they had hoped to get more. The entitlement attitude in the thread is ridiculous. Oh, and thimerosol doesn't cause autism.

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I don't think FFX can control what kind of vaccine they get at this point, thermisol free or not. They take what they can get. But, I am disappointed. Usually FFX county does whatever they do, really well (happy resident here). But I think having a stoller-free vaccination clinic for TODDLERS (in a non-accessible building?, IF that part proves to be true) is the height of stupidity.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think FFX can control what kind of vaccine they get at this point, thermisol free or not. They take what they can get. But, I am disappointed. Usually FFX county does whatever they do, really well (happy resident here). But I think having a stoller-free vaccination clinic for TODDLERS (in a non-accessible building?, IF that part proves to be true) is the height of stupidity.

I heard on NPR today that the highest number of vaccines (after CA) was sent to Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:Get over it. Everyone here relies on their stroller too much anyway. Just deal with your kids rather than strapping them in.

You clearly lack compassion (and intelligence). I am grateful that Fairfax County is providing the vaccines to children, but forgot that they are providing the vaccines to children. It would be difficult for moms like me to wait in line holding a large child (nearly 25 lbs) who is overactive and not yet walking. Also, unhygienic to put the DC on the floor. The strollers are a necessity. I hope that they change their policy.

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Anonymous wrote:Get over it. Everyone here relies on their stroller too much anyway. Just deal with your kids rather than strapping them in.

You clearly lack compassion (and intelligence). I am grateful that Fairfax County is providing the vaccines to children, but forgot that they are providing the vaccines to children. It would be difficult for moms like me to wait in line holding a large child (nearly 25 lbs) who is overactive and not yet walking. Also, unhygienic to put the DC on the floor. The strollers are a necessity. I hope that they change their policy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get over it. Everyone here relies on their stroller too much anyway. Just deal with your kids rather than strapping them in.

You clearly lack compassion (and intelligence). I am grateful that Fairfax County is providing the vaccines to children, but forgot that they are providing the vaccines to children. It would be difficult for moms like me to wait in line holding a large child (nearly 25 lbs) who is overactive and not yet walking. Also, unhygienic to put the DC on the floor. The strollers are a necessity. I hope that they change their policy.

Articulate and intelligent comeback.

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I am a PP, but for those of you who have not been to the Fairfax County Government center, it has a HUGE Grand Staircase -- think Gone With the Wind on Steroids (we are talking an enormous office building, not a 19th century home). I wish I had a picture that I could link. Knowing the layout of the center, I imagine that they plan on having people coming in the main entrance, making their way to the staircase and holding the clinic at the bottom of the staircase in the atrium. I can easily imagine people waiting on the staircase on the order of an hour (the last hour of their wait). Does it really make sense to have pregnant women and toddlers waiting on a huge staircase like that for an hour at the end of a long wait? What if one of the pregnant women passes out and falls down the stairs? What if a child trips and falls down the stairs? It would have made much more sense to split the clinic into 5 distribution centers at high schools which are much more ADA friendly.

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Anonymous wrote:

You clearly lack compassion (and intelligence). I am grateful that Fairfax County is providing the vaccines to children, but forgot that they are providing the vaccines to children. It would be difficult for moms like me to wait in line holding a large child (nearly 25 lbs) who is overactive and not yet walking. Also, unhygienic to put the DC on the floor. The strollers are a necessity. I hope that they change their policy.

I totally agree with you.