Swine Flu Vaccine

Yesterday my mom and I went to a free clinic (not the kind of free clinic for poor people, but a make-shift one at a church) to get the swine flu vaccine. We had to drive 40 minutes away. There was a clinic set-up at my local Town Hall for December 30th, but they didn't announce it until Jan. 3rd (good old small town thinking.)

We had to register online (our name and age) to go to the clinic yesterday. We got to the church (which is on a huge hill) and went in to register. We had to fill out one page -front and back - and then bring it to a person who checked it. My mom was told she was going to get the shot while I was getting the nasal spray. I took my mom to get her shot first and then got my spray. We then had to wait 5 minutes in "observation" - the woman in this last section was pretty weird and by the time she came over to our area and gave us the speech it was time to leave.

The whole thing took about 10 minutes (from the time we arrived until the time we left.)

I still think it is off that for months all the media and government talked about was how bad swine flu is and how many of us were going to get it and could die from it. Nowadays, you barely hear anything mentioned about it. It is as though it came and went. I still believe that anyone (doctors, nurses, teachers,caregivers, etc) who work and deal with people at risk should be made to get the vaccine and those that do not want to can simply find other work in another field. Why should we place those people more at risk in even more danger because their helpers do not want to get the shot? The caregivers have a choice whether to get the vaccine or not whereas those most at risk tend not to.