Jonathan has been all over the Swine Flu and Walmart employees, but this afternoon I came across an interesting story up in Senator Olympia Snowe’s state of Maine where Walmart is opening in-store health clinics.

I’ve written several times about these kinds of clinics, but given the near panic in this country about the Swine Flu, their presence bolsters one of my concerns: sick people shopping before or after their visit to the clinic.

From Bangor Daily News:

Patients who have to wait to be seen and are well enough to shop will be issued an electronic pager to alert them when one of the two exam rooms is available.

Yep. Any time the two exam rooms are occupied, someone is going to make a judgment whether a customer is well enough to shop, hand them a pager and send them into the store.

Are they out of the feckin’ minds?

Jeff Hess: Have Coffee Will Write.

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