[mooby]

I had to take my dad to one of Northern VA's best ranked hospitals last night after an emergency call from his doctor revealed a blood infection from his test on Monday - probably stemming from his pancreatitis that we've been dealing with since June. 5 hours - just to see a doctor who didn't show up until 1:30 this morning. We walked through the ER on the way to get a ct scan an hour after we arrived (to a full ER waiting room) - literally every available space in the ER had a bed in it and every bed was full. I've never seen anything like it - and this includes the last 4 hospital ER's I've been in with my dad and the 30+ times I've visited him in various hospitals since June. People of all ages and sizes sick, curled up in pain, screaming, thrashing, too weak to move and barely able to complain about their struggles breathing. We had to wait 5 hours just to get a bed in the ER - my dad is still there at the time of this post in the ER waiting for a non-ER bed to open up for him to be admitted.

If you are getting your information from the internet - or from entertainment companies - and not from a legitimate doctor - and you don't have pre-existing conditions that make it uncertain - please get the shot. The FDA would not ruin their credibility approving a vaccine that has no business being approved. This virus is not a partisan virus. It will kill anybody - and there is a vaccine out there that will at least give you a dog in the fight. Help yourself - and help everybody you love and care about. Get the shot.