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Jun six, 2010 "Contribute subject material like this. Commence Right here." Recent accusations the Globe Wellbeing Business exaggerated this winter's swine flu situation really hit home for me. As a teacher, I could do little this winter but watch helplessly as news reports created
swine flu panic among the parents of my students. While the children calmly went about their business - as children do - many of their parents watched the H1N1 news reports in wide-eyed terror, concluding that if this terrible plague reached our state it would be tantamount to the Apocalypse itself.
The state, as usual, decided to step in to "help." This came in the form of offering vaccination clinics at the local schools. Understand what this meant for a teacher of fifth-grade children. First, there was the paperwork. For a medical procedure like an injection to take place in a school, each recipient must provide a full medical history. The shot contains additives to which some people are allergic.
Then,
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Of course,
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