Vaccine debacle foreshadows disaster

Has anyone noticed the debacle surrounding the government-managed flu vaccine programs? Not only is the supply and distribution of the seasonal flu vaccine delayed, but the H1N1 vaccine has been so mismanaged that a lot of the damage a timely supply would have prevented has already happened.

Witness the closing of so many schools nationwide and the rising number of deaths. The Centers for Disease Control has a lot of excuses as to why this has happened, but the bottom line is that the population is at risk and the federal government dropped the ball. Anybody want to hazard a guess as to how the proposed socialized medicine program will go?

GUSTAV SCHUPMANN

Monticello