Friday, October 15, 2004

that "dan moon" show

johnny called in to set the record straight on why... there is now a vaccine shortage... he said that hillary (early in bill's administration) was so concerned, as she should be, about some children in a northern state somewhere not having access to the flu vaccine that she organized a drive to cajole or force or both big pharmaceutical manufacturers to produce the vaccine at an extremely restricted rate of profit so that these manufacturers were pratically giving it away...

and the u.s. government outsourced production of this vaccine to england in a further effort to make it more accessible and less expensive (both good ideas, although johnny pointed out that american jobs were lost in this process, of course)...

then recently, the fda discovered that the english-imported vaccine was defective and/or contaminated (i heard that it was found to be contaminated) and so, of course, we stopped importing it...

and, the shortage is here...

johnny also said that he saw elderly folks standing in line in the rain this morning to get a vaccine from a location that would not open til 9 a.m. and not start vaccinating until 10 a.m...

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