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They warned us about it. Pandemic and death was on the way.

They said be worried about it. After hearing awful predictions of hospitals full of the sick, we were worried about it.

The government said they were ready for it. We lined up ready to submit to our shot of possible immunity. But, they were not ready. The H1N1 flu vaccine was still being mixed in the witches brew while the brunt of the flu season came and went. Now, they are begging to give the stuff away.

Not only was the government wrong about predicting the scale of H1N1 infections, they were wrong about being prepared to offer a vaccine for it.

But, how stupid are we for even thinking the CDC was going to make a difference for millions of eager Americans unable to get the vaccine? Instead, a classic example of government rationing took place. The “high risk” people were given the vaccine first, and then the common people were offered the shot in the arm. Welcome to government healthcare folks.

Now, with less than 24% of Americans immunized and over 50 million doses not administered, the CDC has a problem. They have too much inventory on the shelves, and not enough customers. So, the pandemic pandering is erupting again in the media in an effort to get those doses out and about.

Sorry, Charlie. Americans are trying to exercise and shed some pounds this time of year. A flu shot really doesn’t make much sense now to the Weight-Watchers crowd right about now. It never made much sense at all, anyway. The H1N1 scare was much closer to a hoax than reality. The CDC and other government clowns were running a good show for a while. Luckily, by the time the doses were ready, America was already distracted with something else.

The next time the CDC begins its media madhouse about a new deadly bug, America should take it seriously enough to disregard it. Maybe then, the CDC will have something really important to be worried about: being ignored.

Despite the objection of medical professionals to be forced into H1N1 inoculation, many hospitals are resulting to socialism to have their way.  The hospital I am working at has required all staff to have the H1N1 flu shot by a certain date or they will have to wear a mask while on hospital property.  Refusing both will make you a number in Obama’s ten percent unemployment rate.

Technically, the employer is not forcing you to get the shot.  You can wear a mask.  But, who will want to walk around a hospital with a mask on?  It would startle patients if you were to enter their room with a mask.  Instead, the hospital’s approach is to indirectly force you into submission.  They are confident you submit voluntarily through social pressure. The hospital knows most will give in to avoid the hassle, embarrassment, and possible scorn by patients and other spineless staff.

Did I miss something?  Where are the wards full of dying flu patients?  There are none.  This overblown reaction to nothing is a symptom of government manhandling of our health care system.  Employers are just following suit.

Are we really going to put up with that?  You bet we are.  If we let the government control our health care and print money like it grows on trees – then a painless little shot for the ‘public good’ is no big deal.  If we let government push us around, then our employers will, too.