Among the many groups of folks who get swine flu vaccine priority are child-care workers like teachers, daycare employees, medical personnel, and those sorts of people. Given that swine flu is everywhere, people are jockeying for a place on the swine flu priority list. There are only so many vaccines to go around, and thousands of people want them. That’s why one group of public employees, the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas, is asking that Santa Clauses throughout the US get bumped ahead of normal people on the swine flu vaccine list. They consider themselves a high risk group.
It might be an easily dismissed request, but once I started to think about it… it is perfectly reasonable. The average Santa has to go through hundreds of kids in an 8-hour shift of picture-taking. Given that Christmas is right around the corner, who do you think is going to handle more sniffly, sneezy, snotty little kids than all of those groups mentioned above? Right, Santa. Just imagine how many kids could get infected by one ill Father Christmas!
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