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Old 01-02-2012, 08:55 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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I'd only opt out of a vaccine if I could hunt the infected until it's my time to go.

Oh wait, we're not talking about zombification diseases, never mind.
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Old 01-02-2012, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Democratic Peoples Republic of Redneckistan
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After government officials, who should get it first? If we had a lottery should some people be bared from entering? Should illigal immgrents be able to enter? what about criminals?
Why should Gov officials get it first? They are just dead weight anyway...give it to the working class who actually maintain your infrastructure and keep you alive,politicians are unskilled labor the country can replace at a seconds notice with a semi trained monkey..
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Old 01-02-2012, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Near the water
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Why should Gov officials get it first? They are just dead weight anyway...give it to the working class who actually maintain your infrastructure and keep you alive,politicians are unskilled labor the country can replace at a seconds notice with a semi trained monkey..
Post of the day!

Can't rep 'ya again, I have to spread the love. LOL!
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Old 01-02-2012, 09:22 AM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Those most likely to die from infection; the elderly and the very young.

Just like today.
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Old 01-02-2012, 09:45 AM
 
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Of course people should be barred.

Anyone with a felony conviction. All illegals. Anyone receiving TAN-F, Food Stamps or HUD Section 8.

Anyone in a nursing home or who is hospitalized. Anyone taking prescription medication to preserve or extend their lives.

Anyone who has a BMI greater than 25%.

Anyone over 65? If they are 100% independently mobile, not suffering dementia or Alzheimer's, then based on their occupation or skill-set, you can inoculate them.

An 85 year old woman who is sharp as a tack and gets around on her own is more valuable to me than a 20-year old whose sole skill is texting/sexting and playing video games.

If a good chunk of your population dies off, you're going to need people who have a plethora of knowledge that is not technology-based. You're going to need men and women who know how to make butter, sour cream, cream, who worked in meat packing plants making sausages without artificial colorings, flavorings and preservatives, who know how to cure meats, who know how to sew and knit, who can perform accounting and financial transactions using pencil and paper instead of a computer, who know what vacuum tubes are etc, etc, etc.
So that would leave what 200 people.

And I did not know that the epidemics kill computers and technology too.
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Old 01-02-2012, 09:46 AM
 
Location: SC
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Makes no differance who should get it first. The rich and government croonies will be at the top of the list.
Most of the rich and government cronies wouldn't go near it with a 10 foot pole.
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Old 01-02-2012, 10:03 AM
 
Location: California
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Default If a deadly flu outbreak occurred and we only had enough vaccine for a few, who should get it first?

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After government officials, who should get it first? If we had a lottery should some people be bared from entering? Should illigal immgrents be able to enter? what about criminals?
I would not give it to the government, they are the cause of problems and would most likely have manufactured the virus in the first place, I would give it to mix of regular working class people who would be much better suited to restart on the right track.
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Old 01-02-2012, 09:41 PM
 
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Well "first" would be those who want it. Certainly I wouldn't be on that list. Couldn't pay me.

I'm with ya and we are fast-becoming the majority.
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Old 01-02-2012, 09:43 PM
 
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Well, what happened when the pig flu...oopppssss I mean the swine flu, went through here about 1.5 years ago (or so)...and everyone was supposed to die and if you did not take the vaccine terrible things were going to happen to you...

What did we do then?
Well, for one thing we threw more than a hundred million doses of the vaccine in the garbage.
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Old 01-02-2012, 10:06 PM
 
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Why should Gov officials get it first? They are just dead weight anyway...give it to the working class who actually maintain your infrastructure and keep you alive,politicians are unskilled labor the country can replace at a seconds notice with a semi trained monkey..

When i say government officials i mean a handful of people trained to run government and keep the country running, im not talking about politicians in Washington.
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