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Dave
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
 
2005-10-19, 05:21

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Originally Posted by Windswept
Yeah, I think the US has 2 million vaccines on order for our *entire* population.

*sigh*

I guess our Republican Congress truly lives by the concept of "the survival of the fittest".
And, you know, Republicans *are* the fittest - right?

Pardon me for being snide.
See, the thing is we can't just call Vaccine's R Us and order the stuff. Apparently, it takes quite a while to make enough. By the time you've recognized the threat, it's too late to do anything about it. So there's no point in preparing for it, because there's nothing you can do to stop it.

Or at least that's my understanding of the situation.



I might've heard that on the Daily Show (just about the only news commentary show worth watching these days).

When I was a kid, people who did wrong were punished, restricted, and forbidden. Now, when someone does wrong, all of the rest of us are punished, restricted, and forbidden... and the one who did the wrong is counselled and "understood" and fed ice cream.
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