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In case you don’t already know this, we’re in the middle of the H1N1 ‘Swine Flu’ Pandemic. 

While millions of people around the world have contracted swine flu and survived there is a greater chance of dying from swine flu than the regular old flu - especially if you have an underlying medical issue.

In a step to help combat swine flu NYC itself has taken control of its H1N1 vaccination supply. 

Some of you might say, “Hey, that’s great!  They can give it to the people who need it most!” 

Well my friend, if you said that, you are an idiot.  We’d love to sell you a bridge for $500 and then drop a pair of broken glasses next to you, tell you that you broke them and that we need $135 from you immediately for a new pair of lenses.

None of our current doctors have been able to get their hands on the H1N1 vaccine and the city has set up weekend clinics in schools to give out the vaccines to school kids beginning last weekend.

Well, last weekend’s clinic didn’t work out so well as barely anyone brought their children to get vaccinated.  This allowed for the city to expand on who can get vaccinated at weekend clinics to “people with an underlying medical issue.”

Since we have an underlying medical issue in the form of IG-A deficiency — which essentially means that if we contract swine flu we’d likely die since we don’t have a full immune system, we’re trying our best to get the vaccine.

We went to the official NYC.gov website.  Found the widget and performed a search based off of our zip code.

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Our search gave this webpage as a result.

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P.S. 186 located on 19th Avenue at 77th Street was the closest weekend clinic given.  We got up bright and early this morning, walked the three miles the P.S. 186 and found the school to be closed.  It was 100% locked up and there was no weekend clinic going on.

We called 311 and the recorded message told us that this weekend has only two schools open in each borough as weekend clinics.  Both of the Brooklyn schools are located so far away that we could fly to Chicago in the same amount of time it would take us for us to get to them - one in Bushwick and the other along the Sheepshead Bay/Marine Park border.

We waited for a 311 Specialist to come on and see if there were any other available options.  They asked for our zip code.  We gave it to them and they informed us that P.S. 186 was the weekend clinic that we should go to today.  Go figure.

As it turns out, had we clicked on the link to P.S. 186 we would have been given this webpage.

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Everything within the search results would lead anyone to conclude that P.S. 186 would be open this weekend as a weekend clinic that gives out H1N1 vaccine; yet it’s not open this weekend and we were told by a 311 Specialist (after we informed them that P.S. 186 was not open) that it is only open the weekend of December 12th and 13th - although we’re not 100% sure about this since the whole system is all f’ed up.

Things just shouldn’t have to be this difficult given the situation at hand being a pandemic.  We’d hate to see how terrible the vaccination process would be on a rather quick working virus that kills people at a higher rate.