Truckloads of Swine Flu Vaccine

(New York State) When bureaucrats decide health care requirements and needs, you might get too little or you might get truckloads you can't use.

After months of fear, media coverage and government warnings there wasn't as much demand for the swine flu vaccine in New York state as expected.

Truckloads of swine flu vaccines are being returned by counties that say the expected demand for the shots never happened.

I'd suggest that a big part of the problem of mismatching resources with actual needs can be attributed to the media which sensationalizes everything on the horizon as "we're-all-gonna-die" alarms. And, of course, the couch-potato bureaucrats who react to media alarms and are not accountable for anything they screw up.

It's a helluva system of doctoring. Sorta like reading the newspaper for a diagnosis and standing in line at the unemployment office for treatment.

Tip: slwlion