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Should People Be Allowed To Go To A Different State For Swine Flu Vaccine?

News Type: Opinion — Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:50 AM EDT

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Butler County recently had an open swine flu vaccination event at the Butler County Fairgrounds where it distributed a great deal of the doses of vaccine allotted to the county. The Hamilton Police provided traffic and crowd control and said that they had seen numerous out of state license plates from states such as Georgia, Florida and North Carolina.

Should people from out of state be permitted to have the same access as Butler County residents to line up to get the vaccine on a first-come-first-serve basis or should people from Butler County and then, if there is some left over, others from the state of Ohio be permitted only?

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Scott Isaacs

Should the allotted vaccines for specific areas be reserved for the residents of those areas or given to whomever requests them regardless of whether they are from the area or not?

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Reply#1 - Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:53 AM EDT
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USA4Him

I believe that anyone should be able to receive the vaccine. Unless, of course if they are designated for children, the elderly and people with chronic illness'.

Over here in Jersey, they are asking the childre, elderly and sick first, but it is not required, it is first come first serve.

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#1.1 - Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:58 AM EDT
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The Spirit

Protecting one's family is a human right. The government should not be allowed to restrict or criminalize human rights.

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Reply#3 - Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:11 AM EDT
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PublicServant63

WTF? We are all humans... so.. if you need a kidney transplant and the only hospital in a 300 mile radius that a. has the kidney and b. the team of Dr's to do it is in another state does a person deserve to go there?

Who the F are we to ration based on where you are from. WTF are we coming to that our zip code determines our right to a vaccine or a treatment. If NC had the vaccine and Ohio people wanted it or TN had the vaccine and NC people traveled for it. WHO EFFING CARES? The more people who are vaccinated, the more lives are saved.

Is selfishness and apathy towards our fellow man getting this bad that one would even question something like this?

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Reply#4 - Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:29 PM EDT
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Neale Osborn

If the vaccines were free to the public, and bought by the county, then no out of county people should get it before ALL the county residents who wanted it got it. If the vaccines were a FOR MONEY deal, then first pay, first served. I did not vote in the poll, as my answer wasn't available. Either/Or polls are not enough in my opinion. Sorry.

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#4.1 - Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:13 PM EDT
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Al 616

Omigod? Can't Americans just work together? Eventually, everyone will have access to the H1N1 vaccine. The government is rolling out the vaccine to strategic areas for a reason. What if Hamilton County were a "Ground Zero" event for a breakout, yet that area is bereft of the vaccine because of the excitable panicky public who cries "me, me, me first!"

Jesus Christ, we're @!$%#ing emotional infants.

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Reply#5 - Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:33 AM EDT
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AMphoto

The problem with that is the people that really need it; people with asthma, pregnant women, the elderly, babies..won't be able to get it if all the healthy nervous nellies go out and get it first---hysteria and common sense do not go hand in hand.

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Reply#6 - Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:17 PM EDT
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