It really was. On the way in, there were hundreds of volunteers taking down people's health card info and steering traffic. And once inside, the whole arena was filled with a matrix of desks, manned and womanned by public health nurses and doctors giving shots.

I'd thought there'd be a lot of standing in queues; but, in fact, though the lines were certainly long, you didn't do any standing at all (except at the end when you stopped by someone who entered your info into their computers). You were in line walking all the way. Surprisingly quick.