The Jab-Sanitation Story

 If you went to most Germans (vax'ed-up folks) and asked about the mass vaccination facilities....they'd go and describe some highly organized place, fairly up-to-date/modern, highly clean (sanitary) and the doctor giving the jab as 'old-school'.  

Focus came out this morning with a story over a vaccination center that existed at the Hamburg Bahnhof (train station).

So for those of you who've never been to Hamburg....let me describe the station.  I've probably been to sixty train stations across Germany since 1978.  A handful (Berlin and Mainz).....I'd describe as fairly modern, 'chic', and interesting places to view.  Some....like Frankfurt or Wiesbaden....I'd describe as 1910ish....a bit dusty.....and unusual characters (nutcases, druggies, etc) hanging around.  

Hamburg?  It comes across as 1910ish.....with attempted renovations....disorganized movement to the subway system....and dust in corners that might be age-qualified to 1960.  It's the kind of station that I wouldn't remain standing there long and admiring things.....mostly because it'd draw the attention of pick-pockets or weird characters.  

Someone (probably even connected to the city management system) approved to have a vaccination center inside of the Hamburg station.  Maybe there were good intentions.....but it's probably one of the worst places to have an immunization facility.  

Focus chatted about the landscape.  Police have even commented about the 'look and feel'.  Sanitation-wise?  It's probably not even as clean as your muffler mechanic's garage.  A doctor there to answer questions?  No.....the guy was on call-status.  The doctor actually in charge?  He was a guy who'd been fired in the past for fraud in billing situations.  Together, the police and health department of the city finally said 'enough' and this weekend....shut the operation down.

I sat and pondered over the deal.  The immunization center I went to in Wiesbaden....was the RMCC....the civic center of Wiesbaden, and probably even cleaner than my wife's kitchen.  Through all my Air Force years.....I tended to get the yearly immunization at three locations on base (the base clinic, the base theater, or some open-air tent thrown up next to my work-place).  You never really thought about sanitation or dust/dirt in the air.  

Just something to ponder.