Help of a different kind

[skhadenuf]

I know not the place for this but money is one thing life is another. Neighbor's child is on respirator from H1n1 where the hell is vaccine, health authority knows nothing can't get through on info lines. See people in cities getting vaccinated, our provincial minister seems to be fixated on one group of people in this province no one else seems to be important enough. Does anyone know, can you just take your kids anywhere to get a shot, they're talking 3 weeks for our area it takes from what I hear 10 days to work, Children are dying now.
Incompetance in money matters is one thing. This is beyond incompetance weren't we told last year how prepared we were, that vaccine should have been out a month ago. Numbers of sick people particuarly kids is getting scarey!

[grefer]

I was told yesterday that it will be Nov.16 before the average Joe will be able to START getting the vaccine in the Saskatoon and North Battleford Health districts.Kids 10 or under will require two half shots,half doses,21 days apart.Seems along time getting out and poorly thought out.There is alot of flu going around,Our son was sick 2 days ago.Who knows if it was H1N1.

[skhadenuf]

Thanks alot appreciated info, just started to think our area left behind from watching the TV.

[dirtgirl]

That's scary. Does your neighbour's child have any underlying health issues? In SE SK my young children will be getting their first H1N1 shot next Thursday.

[ColevilleH2S]

Same here in the Rosetown/Kindersley health district. No Vaccine until mid-November.

Calgary has had vaccination clinics going for a week now, what gives?

[parsley]

The vaccine supply for Saskatchewan was cut in half this week

[fjlip]

U of S info states vaccinations start on Nov 24st, nearly a month? There are sick students today! This could be terrible, they should cancel classes for a month!

[charliep]

I will leave the discussion about vacine alone.

One thing I do think everyone needs to think about is confined pig and poultry operations. It is critical no one that is sick (including the owner) goes into these barns. The disease (flu) can get transmitted to the animals (happened in Alberta) with both short and long term consequences.

An idea would be to have people in a community who can fill in looking after a livestock operation in the case an owner/workers get sick. It may be a time when we have to keep track of each other and help when needed.

Hopefully not an alarmist (too many already) but we need to watch the impact on the supply chain. What happens if your local elevator has a significant number of employees sick? What happens is a major packing plant has a significant number of absentees?

Maybe the risk is only 1 in a thousand or less but I think everyone needs to have thought through implications and have some backup plans.

Hopefully not overboard but encouraging to be prepared.

[fjlip]

Gormley this AM makes Sask sound like the slowest to vaccinate in Canada? Call your MLA, question them, are we slower?

[cottonpicken]

How much higher is the death rate of this flu over the other ones?

[cottonpicken]

Found it myself-normal flu .1 swine .7 percent.

[fjlip]

Dr David Butler-Jones said again this morn on CBC that what seems different about H1N1 is the sickest and highest mortality is the teens and twenty something. People will be scared by the news of young dying.