Second, the main reason things have been moving slow is because Senate Republicans have put “stalls” on all of the administration’s Health and Human Services nominees, including the surgeon general — for reasons purely partisan — leaving the department in charge of things like global pandemics, virtually empty.

Third, let’s calm down a little bit. No, the sky is not falling. There’s no reason to scare monger. While the H1N1 virus is, indeed, dangerous to certain subsections of the population, it is largely not dangerous to the rest of us — especially if we’re aware of it, and get checked out as soon as we start to get symptoms. So your declaration to storm these helpful clinics, even if you aren’t in danger, to take vaccinations from those who really need it is both cruel and ignorant.

It is this sort of me first mentality that leads to death by stampede at Black Friday sales, and the like. So please, for the sake of your readers, tone it down a bit.