Re: OT: Congressional Vaccine Hogs- DeLay First in Line

From: Fred Bloggs (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:38:40 GMT

Tom Seim wrote:
> Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<417B8641.1030208@nospam.com>...
>
>>Richard Henry wrote:
>>
>>>"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>>>news:417AFB41.3030309@nospam.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Tom Seim wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>>>>
>>>news:<417AA2B8.6000806@nospam.com>...
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>>>
>>>>>>http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6308203/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Gee, I see some Dems on that list. Nothing like being fair and
>>>>>balanced fredfraud:
>>>>>
>>>>>Sen. Barbara Boxer, D.-Calif., come on down!
>>>>>
>>>>>"Sen. Barbara Boxer, 63, also got a flu shot, her spokeswoman said.
>>>>>Boxer is on a campaign bus tour outside of Bakersfield and not
>>>>>available for comment."
>>>>
>>>>She's not the only Dem there, but look at her age. You can't get away
>>>
>>>>from seeing all the "me first" male Republican pigs on the list. I
>>>
>>>>wonder how many old people will die this winter because of DeLay's
>>>>monstrous selfishness.
>>>
>>>
>>>I was secretly hoping that during the last debate W would be tricked into
>>>saying that he would solve the flu vaccine crisis by importing cheaper
>>>supplies from Canada.
>>
>>The US has been screwing up vaccine production for too many years now.
>>Shortage is something we have come to expect. Last year the vaccine was
>>worthless because it was for the wrong strain- they knew this
>>beforehand, but when problems developed in producing that vaccine, it
>>was also canned and they just re-ordered the vaccine from the previous
>>year- hence the epidemics in the western states. So those vaccines were
>>little more than placebo- no real scientific difference between that and
>>this year with no vaccine period. This mismanagement of the influenza
>>vaccine is not an isolated incident- it is an example of the rule that
>>you can't expect much from the government- and to think that so many
>>sorry-assed ignorant swine, especially the Bush supporters, think that
>>anything will be different with a much bigger mess called Dept Homeland
>>Security- that is the biggest laugh going these days!
>
>
> The company that "screwed up" the flu vaccine is British (even tho
> they were bought by Chiron a couple of years ago).
>
> Should the U.S. Government produce all drugs? I don't think so.

The situation is such that the US should have gone GOCO long ago on this.

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