Things I've learned from the candidate debates

[plonq]

We're apparently a third-world country with dangerous, unregulated and impure drugs which we dump on poor seniors across the border at a discount because we're just evil and callous like that.  This flow of cheap meds must be stopped for their safety.

This does not apply to flu vaccine, mind you, because there's a shortage of that so our vaccine is perfectly safe.

Lick me where it smells funny, GWB.  Wasn't it your old man who sold us the mouldy, expired anthrax vaccine during the Gulf War?  Maybe we can return the favour...

Comments

[fetlock.livejournal.com]

They think were a third world country?
Well A POX on them.

-Fetlock

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I was speaking metaphorically.

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

I'm tired of our government and leader... prospects don't look good either.

may I be allowed to move up to Canada to get away from it all????

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Bear in mind that you'd be replacing your government and leader with our government and leader if you moved up here. We're not exactly shining beacons of political enlightenment either.

[skorzy.livejournal.com]

Hush up, you! Get back to making my poutine or I'll build another sweat shop in Winnipeg! Slave!

I wonder if I could motor up to Canada and buy a flu shot? Could an American just drive up there, wait in line and buy one?

Even though I'm considered in a "high risk" category because my roommate is immunocompromised (a nasty side effect of taking Embrel for psoraic arthritis), I just found out from UMASS that they just don't HAVE enough doses for all the high risk people! So, they're rationing to the TRULY HIGH RISK people.

[dingotush.livejournal.com]

I still find it amazing that the USA would source half its flu vaccine from one plant in Liverpool, UK. The plant has of course been shut down because the vaccine was contaminated with "other bacteria". The fact that no one here is prepared to say which other bacteria leads me to suspect that some of it has already been used. Bloody government. But, at least they have the sense to spread their order between six suppliers.

[gedrean.livejournal.com]

Heh. W is a flipflopper. Now people are seeing it. Not half an hour between saying "Drugs from Canada are bad because they're dirty" and then saying "We need Canadian Medicine cuz we fucked up."