Vaccination Hell: Thousands Line Up For H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine In Macomb County As Hospitals Ban Children From Visiting Hours!

This is similar in result to the first rollout in Oakland County that I wroite about here: Vaccination Hell: In Oakland County MI, Thousands Line Up For H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine, Some In Line 11 Hours! Huge lines. Cold. Rainy. I wonder how many pre-registered there were here. From The Detroit News: Thousands line up for H1N1 shots in Macomb County. Curiously, the Macomb Daily claimed only hundreds in this article: County residents line up for flu vaccines. Then again, 10s of hundreds is thousands, no? All in the semantics I guess. In any case, from the DetNews:

Thousands of people stood in the drizzling rain today for the free H1N1 vaccine, as two hospitals announced that children won't be allowed to visit during the flu season.

Macomb County residents lined up at Freedom Hill County Park in Sterling Heights for the county's first fair to distribute the shot in injectable form.

"There are so many people," said Javery, who suffers from asthma. "I wouldn't be surprised if everyone wasn't in the high risk category."

Health workers were reportedly telling people the shot would only be administered to priority groups, including pregnant women, health care workers, people with underlying health problem, youth ages 6 months to 24-years-old and caregivers of children younger than 6-months-old.

Meanwhile, Children's Hospital of Michigan and Detroit Medical Centers announced they will not allow children younger than 18 to visit patients in an effort to prevent children from getting or spreading the flu. The policy will be in effect through the flu season.

What are the kids supposed to do then, use Skype to say goodbye to Grandma before she kicks the bucket? A text message? Email? An autographed picture of themselves crying? Good grief. In my prior post on the Oakland County debacle, several commenter wanted to know why I would even get a shot at all. One going so far as to ask why I would put a foreign substance in my body being a natural bodybuilder. Well, I have gotten a flu shot every year since the very first year the shot came out. From the time I was a little boy, I had the flu every single year that used to knock me on my can for a week or so. I've not had it since. Thus, I will continue to get a flu shot every year ASAP. Although a small percentage of the population may have a reaction to it, my family and I thankfully do not. It is, in essence, just a bunch of dead germs that the body will produce antibodies to.