Montreal is speeding up flu vaccinations as a woman in her forties merely afflicted with mild asthma died Tuesday in the Montérégie. The health minister has also confessed to a mistake made when prisoners in Valleyfield got their shots before presumably more deserving people (although keeping the virus from spreading under prison conditions sounds like a good idea to me).

I received a card in my mailbox today telling me where to get vaccinated, although as I'm in the least endangered category I have to wait till next month and the card notes that the rules may well have changed by then.

(It occurred to me while typing this: yes, H1N1 flu can be dangerous, but this whole clusterfuck begins to feel like a practice drill so the government will have worked out a better system in case something like SARS or worse crops up again and the masses really do have to be immunized stat.) posted at 19:24