Looking for the H1N1 vaccine? Well, if you’re looking online you’re probably running into a lot of headlines that read “H1N1 Vaccine Shortage” or “Flu Shot Clinic Canceled Due To H1N1 Shortage.” It’s not so much those headlines that are making people scratch their heads, it the headlines right next to those that say “Guantanamo Bay Detainees To Get H1N1 Vaccines.”
While health conscious Americans are standing in the streets for over three hours to get themselves and their children vaccinated with the H1N1 vaccine, Guantanamo Bay detainees, which for the most part are terror suspects, will have the opportunity to get the H1N1 vaccine without hassle.
Maj. Diana R. Hayne, a spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay, said, “JTF Guantanamo conducts safe, humane, legal and transparent care and custody of detainees. As such, we must provide detainees the medical care necessary to maintain their health.”
If you’ve ever seen Michael Moore’s Sicko, and I apologize for even bringing up Michael Moore in this discussion, you know the opposing sides of the health care in Guantanamo Bay. While the story is never as black-and-white and Moore portrays it, health care in Guantanamo Bay isn’t too shabby. I mean, if you take out the questionable interrogation techniques and everything else, Guantanamo Bay health care could be considered top notch.
So, while terror detainees in Guantanamo Bay receiving the swine flu vaccine and top notch health care, nearly 50 million Americans remain uninsured and struggling to vaccinate themselves and their children against the swine flu.
Of course, just because the H1N1 vaccine is going to be admitted to detainees, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they will accept. And, honestly, can you blame them? In most cases, Guantanamo Bay detainees will remain apprehensive about the vaccines.
Many are questioning how detainees would even get the swine flu. Honestly, after all of my research, that’s a question that I couldn’t find a solid answer for. The swine flu spreads much like the seasonal flu, through not washing hands, touching something or someone that has been sneezed on or exchanging drinks. All military members are required to get the vaccine on Guantanamo Bay, so how is it that anyone could get infected?
Have any ideas? Let us know. Think American children and pregnant women shouldn’t have to wait in line for 3 hours to get a limited number of H1N1 vaccines while Guantanamo Bay terror suspects are freely receiving it?
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