Arlington H1N1clinic today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to clinic with my 4 year old (it showed up at his school this week). I have an 18-month old at home that cannot be vaccinated. due to his age They told me that me, my husband and nanny are considered 'priority' since we have a child under 2 at home.

They did see once the under 2 vaccine becomes avail. this policy will change, e.g., i won't be a priority when my baby can get the shot.

I was prepared not to get it, but they did consider me high risk. I am not related to the other posters. just my 2 cents. I would not have gotten it if they hadn't considered me 'priority'. Their rationale is we all have to protect infant by not bringing it into the home.

BULLSHIT. Your 18 month old can be vaccinated. At DC, at FAIRFAX -- just not at ARLINGTON. And the CDC has determined who is high risk -- YOU ARE NOT IN THAT GROUP. And you know it. You can make all the excuses in the world but like a previous poster said, if you you are so ok with your decision -- why don't you tell us who you are? Because you know it was wrong.
I have an 18 month old too. And I will go to Fairfax on Saturday. And then i will go the DC for my three year old. and then i will WAIT MY TURN with all the other healthy adults and wait and see when it is available to the general public. Instead of cutting the line and making excuses, maybe you should thank your lucky stars you are not disabled, or have a heart condition, be grateful for your health, and think of others who are not so fortunate.

Back off. i am NOT one of the pp....and i did read the cdc after my post and thought 'hmmm..' not what they told me at the clinic. I even told my husband i am taking 4 year old but "you and i can't get it later because we aren't high priority'. As i stood in line and asked if they would have it avail. for my 18 month old--they said they weren't sure but they were vaccinating parents and caregivers of the under 24 month category since they vaccine wasn't avail. for them there. i did not ? them at the time. I was actually surprised as waht they were telling me was against what I thought. I naturally have tons of Irish Catholic guilt so i really don't need some anonymous poster ?ing my motives. You can go f*ck your self-righteous self right now.

[Anonymous]

YOU ARE NOT IN THAT GROUP. And you know it. You can make all the excuses in the world but like a previous poster said, if you you are so ok with your decision -- why don't you tell us who you are? Because you know it was wrong.
I have an 18 month old too. And I will go to Fairfax on Saturday. And then i will go the DC for my three year old. and then i will WAIT MY TURN with all the other healthy adults and wait and see when it is available to the general public.

Your anger is out of proportion to the incident. You should ask yourself why you're angry enough to start a thread to continue to scream and shout about the unfairness of somebody breaking what you perceive to be hard set rules.

Chill and don't worry about what everybody else is doing. Mind your own business. You've had your say again, and again, and again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

YOU ARE NOT IN THAT GROUP. And you know it. You can make all the excuses in the world but like a previous poster said, if you you are so ok with your decision -- why don't you tell us who you are? Because you know it was wrong.
I have an 18 month old too. And I will go to Fairfax on Saturday. And then i will go the DC for my three year old. and then i will WAIT MY TURN with all the other healthy adults and wait and see when it is available to the general public.

Your anger is out of proportion to the incident. You should ask yourself why you're angry enough to start a thread to continue to scream and shout about the unfairness of somebody breaking what you perceive to be hard set rules.

Chill and don't worry about what everybody else is doing. Mind your own business. You've had your say again, and again, and again.

i agree with you. At the Arlington clinic--they don't ask for ID, proof of anything and the administrators were telling those of us with kids under 2 or caregivers under 2 that we were 'high priority'. not everyone was out to deceive. My husband asked if he needed to bring my infant's passport to show proof that he had an infant at home b4 getting the vaccine. Some of us are working at doing the right thing---but according to the PP before you--I did the wrong thing and should burn in h*ll. I do agree with the sentiment of the pp---high risk should have priority--but I disagree with her attacks on all of us...even those of us falling clinic directives with no deception on our part.

[Anonymous]

If a person goes to one of these vaccination clinics and legitimatey answers that he or she is NOT in one of the priority groups, but is nevertheless offered the vaccine, it is completely ethical to accept the vaccine.

It is the job of the clinic workers, and the system that has been organized, to be aware of the amount of vaccine available to cover the number of people who want it. Every single dose of available vaccine should be administered, every single day, at this point in time, for maximumum public health benefit. There more people who are vaccinated in a community, the quiker the vaccines are pushed out into the commnuity, the sooner the epidemic will be slowed down or even halted.

Given that no single indiviudal can be assured that vaccination will mean immunity from disease, everyone will benefit from a shorter epidemic period.

If people in a high priority group are currently standing in line at a particular clinic, then no non-priority person should get the vaccine before them. However, if there isn't a long line of waiting people, anyone who comes to a clinic should be vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I'm pregnant and have a child under two and I agree that the level of anger here is completely unwarranted.

It's so apparent that there is a lot of confusion and misinformation at these clinics. Many people are still unclear about some of the priority groups, including staff. If CDC wants to focus so much on us pregnant ladies, why are many of the available vaccines the nasal spray which we can't get? I don't blame anyone for getting the vaccine, especially if clinic staff are offering it to them. Obviously, they are still smoothing out some wrinkles and the process will not be perfect.

Let's just be thankful we live in a country that has access to the vaccine. Imagine some other places in the world where people can barely find food to feed there families, let alone a brand-new vaccine. Angry poster, I think you need keep this in perspective. I can't imagine being upset that another person got the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Back off. i am NOT one of the pp....and i did read the cdc after my post and thought 'hmmm..' not what they told me at the clinic. I even told my husband i am taking 4 year old but "you and i can't get it later because we aren't high priority'. As i stood in line and asked if they would have it avail. for my 18 month old--they said they weren't sure but they were vaccinating parents and caregivers of the under 24 month category since they vaccine wasn't avail. for them there. i did not ? them at the time. I was actually surprised as waht they were telling me was against what I thought. I naturally have tons of Irish Catholic guilt so i really don't need some anonymous poster ?ing my motives. You can go f*ck your self-righteous self right now.

"Go fuck you self-righteous self".... ah, another classy catholic (same one?). love it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

YOU ARE NOT IN THAT GROUP. And you know it. You can make all the excuses in the world but like a previous poster said, if you you are so ok with your decision -- why don't you tell us who you are? Because you know it was wrong.
I have an 18 month old too. And I will go to Fairfax on Saturday. And then i will go the DC for my three year old. and then i will WAIT MY TURN with all the other healthy adults and wait and see when it is available to the general public.

I think I am starting to recognize this poster... Maybe we should come up with a name for her?

[Anonymous]

To Poster 20:23 - you need to get off this board. This is totally unacceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You are over-reacting. I think it is the responsibility of the staff administering the shot to decide who can get it and who can't. Shouldn't they know best?

Several of the moms in my playgroup, who all have 14 month olds, have gotten the shot at this same clinic because their kids can't. They weren't trying to game the system, they wanted to protect their children in any way possible. Why begrudge them that?

LOL PP . . . this is like that episode of Seinfeld where George attended a birthday party and thought there was a fire, so he knocked over all the toddlers trying to get out of the burning house first. You and your friends pretty much just knocked over a bunch of pregnant women and children with disabilities so they could get their shots first. Glad you all found each other so you can be friends together!

Good analogy. I have been reading this thread thinking these selfish moms would be putting other peoples' kids out of the only life boat when the ship was sinking because the moms were more entitled to be in the boat. Same people who think their 10 year olds deserve a seat on the metro over a person on crutches.

You are totally overwrought, all of you. This is not the fu*king Titanic, ladies, so get a hold of yourselves. You sound like an angry mob shaking pitchforks and holding torches.

[Anonymous]

I do not agree with the way Arlington county is handling this, but the Fed Govt has chosen to distribute to the states, who have chosen to distribute to the counties to dispense the vaccine as they see fit.

I am curious if those healthy adults who got the vaccine at Arlington got the flumist or the shot. If it was the flumist, they were displacing children without high risk conditions, not high risk adults or high risk kids, who can't get the flumist.

It seems there is a lot of flumist, not a lot of shots. If the healthy adults were getting shots in Arlington, I am even more disgusted with Arlington. (as a high risk adult with asthma who could have gotten, but did not even request, one of those 200 shots in MoCo this morning.).

[Anonymous]

As pregnant mom with a preexisting lung condition and the mother to an 18 month old I'm aghast at how other parents are jumping the line to get vaccinated. You are not high risk. Good hand washing should be enough for you and your families.

Selfish bitches. I'm waiting to see who the next pregnant mom is that dies. I hope it's not me because the rest of you have hogged it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You are over-reacting. I think it is the responsibility of the staff administering the shot to decide who can get it and who can't. Shouldn't they know best?

Several of the moms in my playgroup, who all have 14 month olds, have gotten the shot at this same clinic because their kids can't. They weren't trying to game the system, they wanted to protect their children in any way possible. Why begrudge them that?

LOL PP . . . this is like that episode of Seinfeld where George attended a birthday party and thought there was a fire, so he knocked over all the toddlers trying to get out of the burning house first. You and your friends pretty much just knocked over a bunch of pregnant women and children with disabilities so they could get their shots first. Glad you all found each other so you can be friends together!

Good analogy. I have been reading this thread thinking these selfish moms would be putting other peoples' kids out of the only life boat when the ship was sinking because the moms were more entitled to be in the boat. Same people who think their 10 year olds deserve a seat on the metro over a person on crutches.

You are totally overwrought, all of you. This is not the fu*king Titanic, ladies, so get a hold of yourselves. You sound like an angry mob shaking pitchforks and holding torches.

If this virus mutates before all the vaccine gets rolled out, it could be just like the Titanic, and the kids that didn't get the flu shot are floating on debris praying for help before they freeze to death while healthy adults are in the life boat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You are over-reacting. I think it is the responsibility of the staff administering the shot to decide who can get it and who can't. Shouldn't they know best?

Several of the moms in my playgroup, who all have 14 month olds, have gotten the shot at this same clinic because their kids can't. They weren't trying to game the system, they wanted to protect their children in any way possible. Why begrudge them that?

LOL PP . . . this is like that episode of Seinfeld where George attended a birthday party and thought there was a fire, so he knocked over all the toddlers trying to get out of the burning house first. You and your friends pretty much just knocked over a bunch of pregnant women and children with disabilities so they could get their shots first. Glad you all found each other so you can be friends together!

Good analogy. I have been reading this thread thinking these selfish moms would be putting other peoples' kids out of the only life boat when the ship was sinking because the moms were more entitled to be in the boat. Same people who think their 10 year olds deserve a seat on the metro over a person on crutches.

You are totally overwrought, all of you. This is not the fu*king Titanic, ladies, so get a hold of yourselves. You sound like an angry mob shaking pitchforks and holding torches.

Agree with this - it's the flu people, not a vaccine to prevent some fast spreading/deadly disease that kills thousands of people everyday. Yes, those in the priority groups should go first and people should respect that. But my god, the level of anger from some (or maybe it's just one?) posters is beyond comprehension.

[Anonymous]

I believe that's it's just one poster that's full of vitriol, and it's a shame because I believe that her point is valid, but it's being discredited by her out-of-control anger.

[Anonymous]

No, it's more than one. I am pissed at the line-cutters and have posted 2x but i am not the "sinking ship" person, not the "day of reckoning" person, or the "seinfeld person" (that one was too funny, the the way)
I think there are lots of people shocked by the behavior of these moms.