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I got the call from my sister's boyfriend that she had gone into labor (right on her due date), with her first child. I was at work, but got someone to cover me and went up to Port Huron Hospital. My dad had just finished checking in when I got to the front desk. He was putting an identifying sticker on his shirt. In a quick glance at a sign I'd passed in my rush up to the desk, I noticed "H1N1" in large print, but I was anxious to get to the maternity ward, where my sister could deliver at any moment, so it remains unknown to me what it said. My dad was saying something about not having been on the list. I was like "what do you mean?" The receptionist was asking for a name. I said my sister's name. She said "no, your name". I gave her mine with an "I knew that" smile. She picked up the phone and asked someone for confirmation about who was on my sister's list. She hung up and told me I wasn't on it. I looked at her expectantly, awaiting her to begin the process of getting me added to the list and checked in. She told me only three people could visit and I wasn't one of them. I responded with an incredulous "Why??" She said some spiel about protecting the babies from H1N1. I shook my head and asked "3 visitors at a time, or period?" She said "3 period" and added that they've been doing it for 3 months. I told my dad goodbye and left.

Being that I know H1N1 is one big scam and the issuance of the vaccine a travesty, this is very upsetting to me. (I'm not saying people haven't gotten H1N1 and died, but it's far less deadly than "they" want you to believe-- much less so than the seasonal flu, and they've never kept people out of hospitals for the risk of that.) My sister has seven local siblings and only one could be there for her daughter's birth (since the other two were the baby's father and our dad). In her case, she wasn't aware herself of the restriction (they apparently didn't explain it to her beforehand so she could let us know), so the first sibling to arrive was the one to get in.

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