Excellent article in the Atlantic about vaccines in MoCo, Elrich regime

[Anonymous]

His nose and cheeks indicate a drinking problem too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is “the look” of a Soviet apparatchik? You sound like an anti-Semite.

OP. Elrich just kind of looks like a villain in a Cold War-era movie. Kind of like how Jeff Sessions used to look like the villain from a Civil War movie. You know it when you see it. And the politics and personality fit. Elrich has said he is a communist in the past and he just looks the part. It has nothing to do with him being Jewish. Come on, he even had a red star on his campaign literature. The guy has a soft spot for communist bureaucrats of the Soviet Union like the RWNJ Trump people do for the confederacy.

But that’s not even my point. The article compares the way the vaccine shortage is handled to the byzantine Soviet queues for food. You have to know someone who knows someone or else it’s a web of red tape with nothing at the end. Elrich meanwhile loves to appoint commissions and task forces and advisors that are more glorified bureaucrats of his inner circle that conduct “studies” that tell Elrich what he wants to hear, instead of helping you.

[Anonymous]

I have known Soviet apparatchiks. Elrich, you’re no Soviet apparatchik.
(With apologies to lloyd Bentsen)
Seriously, I don’t think OP has ever stood in a Soviet line. Appreciate America, people.

I agree things could be better but it’s a scarce resource with high demand. If the state only gave it to those over 75, like some states did to start, peoole would be bitching about that too. The scarcity is due to the lack of government involvement—the direct opposite of the Soviet scarcity problem. Learn history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His nose and cheeks indicate a drinking problem too.

BINGO

[Anonymous]

Man and to think West Virginia rocked it. For all of the taxes, all of the bureaucracy, all of the ‘splainin of things’ - and that Dr. Fauci is a resident - if this isn’t an utter sign of Moco’s decline I don’t know what is. MoCo is just a jobs program - everyone works for the county or MCPS but nothing gets done...welcome to Moscow on Muddy Branch.

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Anonymous wrote:Man and to think West Virginia rocked it. For all of the taxes, all of the bureaucracy, all of the ‘splainin of things’ - and that Dr. Fauci is a resident - if this isn’t an utter sign of Moco’s decline I don’t know what is. MoCo is just a jobs program - everyone works for the county or MCPS but nothing gets done...welcome to Moscow on Muddy Branch.

Hi Hogan staffer. Please explain which aspects of the vaccine "bureaucracy" are county vs state issues? Because the GOVERNOR has ultimate authority over vaccine distribution an a LOT of doses are not going to the counties.

[Anonymous]

Republicans of MoCo, please let us know how you fare trying to get a vaccine appointment from the state's vaccination website. I posted the URL below for your convenience.

https://massvax.maryland.gov/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loathe Elrich. I really do. But the hospital issues aren't his fault. The State is screwing up distribution of what little vaccine they do have. The State (not the county) distributes right to pharmacies and hospitals.

+1. In this, at least, the blame lies heavily with Hogan (who I generally really like). MoCo has been getting only 5000-7000 doses a week to distribute through the County systems. Everything else is the state.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what you get when the other choice is Ficker.

No. Elect a rational Democrat in the primary. What is wrong with this County?

I tried.

Me too. Tried to get my DH to change his affiliation from independent to Dem too, but no dice. Guess who was then composing about the choice in the general election and Elrich now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man and to think West Virginia rocked it. For all of the taxes, all of the bureaucracy, all of the ‘splainin of things’ - and that Dr. Fauci is a resident - if this isn’t an utter sign of Moco’s decline I don’t know what is. MoCo is just a jobs program - everyone works for the county or MCPS but nothing gets done...welcome to Moscow on Muddy Branch.

WV rocked it because their Governor decided that a top-down approach would work best. They are not giving counties any discretion. Plus, they deployed the National Guard to do logistics. WV has also received a higher per capita allotment from the federal government than most larger states.

Why didn't Hogan do the same?

[Anonymous]

The county has a problem finding people to administer the shots.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, County employees have been working tirelessly to make sure all residents have access to testing, and for those who tested positive, to have personnel available to provide contact tracing. These measures are very important for addressing a health emergency like COVID-19 and will continue as long as needed.

Now, the next step in addressing the pandemic is the administration of COVID-19 vaccines. We have just started to receive them from the State to be administered to hospitals, nursing homes and other front-facing healthcare providers, including the nurses and other staff who are working in our testing and new vaccine sites. As more doses are delivered to us, the more nurses and other healthcare practitioners we will need to be able to administer these doses to as many people as possible every day. Our hope is that some of you may be able to help administer the vaccines.

If you are now, or have ever been a licensed healthcare practitioner (LPN, RN, MD, etc.), we would like to talk to you about helping us in one of our COVID-19 vaccine clinics. Below are a few questions to help us determine if you are possibly eligible to participate in this important work.

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Anonymous wrote:

Ok, so she doesn’t mention Elrich by name, but anyone who has been here long enough knows that he is at the heart of this problem. Elrich always reminded me of a Soviet apparatchik - he has the look, the demeanor, and the way about politics. He is elected and re-elected by his inner circle of staunch supporters who spoonfeed leftwing propaganda and live in their echo chambers, and they are the ones that receive immediate 24/7 responses from him and county services. Nobody else can stand him, and he doesn’t respond to anyone outside of his Politburo and Komsomol.

As much fun and games as Elrichism was before the pandemic, now it’s a Kafka nightmare. We have shortages and those with connections are the ones who get them, or know how to work the system. Everyone else without the secret password is left in the dark.

Montgomery County has fallen so far thanks to the far left and machine politics. The county is suffering also because of the antagonistic relationship with Hogan. When Montgomery County prospered, we elected moderates like Doug Duncan and Connie Morella. Now we’ve become the Soviet Republic of East Wokestan - and it’s backfired. Vaccines being kept out of the arms of seniors, many of color - not very woke, is it?

2006 county council at large:

Floreen: 193,269 (18.0%)
Leventhal: 191,037 (17.8%)
Elrich: 185,667 (17.3%)
Trachtenberg: 182,998 (17.1%)

2010 county council at large:

Elrich: 179,008 (17.3%)
Floreen: 177,572 (17.2%)
Leventhal: 169,912 (16.4%)
Riemer: 166,130 (16.1%)

2014 county council at large:

Elrich: 160,914 (17.1%)
Floreen: 159,030 (16.9%)
Leventhal: 150,902 (16.1%)
Riemer: 143,048 (15.2%)

In other words, in both of his re-election races for county council at large, he was the top vote getter.

So it must be a large inner circle?

[Anonymous]

As usual, Elrich and Co overcomplicating things. Supposedly they didn’t use up their allotment last week because too many people who signed up weren’t eligible? Not totally understanding this- were people deliberately lying on the online form and then getting turned away when they showed up for their appointments, or is the signup system not sophisticated enough to prevent a self-declared 20yo from signing up? If it’s the former, wouldn’t the vaccines for the day needed to have been used at that point anyway? If it’s the latter, that doesn’t seem like a complicated fix, so I hope they are working on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Ok, so she doesn’t mention Elrich by name, but anyone who has been here long enough knows that he is at the heart of this problem. Elrich always reminded me of a Soviet apparatchik - he has the look, the demeanor, and the way about politics. He is elected and re-elected by his inner circle of staunch supporters who spoonfeed leftwing propaganda and live in their echo chambers, and they are the ones that receive immediate 24/7 responses from him and county services. Nobody else can stand him, and he doesn’t respond to anyone outside of his Politburo and Komsomol.

As much fun and games as Elrichism was before the pandemic, now it’s a Kafka nightmare. We have shortages and those with connections are the ones who get them, or know how to work the system. Everyone else without the secret password is left in the dark.

Montgomery County has fallen so far thanks to the far left and machine politics. The county is suffering also because of the antagonistic relationship with Hogan. When Montgomery County prospered, we elected moderates like Doug Duncan and Connie Morella. Now we’ve become the Soviet Republic of East Wokestan - and it’s backfired. Vaccines being kept out of the arms of seniors, many of color - not very woke, is it?

2006 county council at large:

Floreen: 193,269 (18.0%)
Leventhal: 191,037 (17.8%)
Elrich: 185,667 (17.3%)
Trachtenberg: 182,998 (17.1%)

2010 county council at large:

Elrich: 179,008 (17.3%)
Floreen: 177,572 (17.2%)
Leventhal: 169,912 (16.4%)
Riemer: 166,130 (16.1%)

2014 county council at large:

Elrich: 160,914 (17.1%)
Floreen: 159,030 (16.9%)
Leventhal: 150,902 (16.1%)
Riemer: 143,048 (15.2%)

In other words, in both of his re-election races for county council at large, he was the top vote getter.

So it must be a large inner circle?

Not by much <1000 votes <1%

[Anonymous]

Anyone know when MoCo will ramp up vaccinations? We have been stuck on Tier 1A for weeks now.
The other thing I just don’t get is why Maryland is still only receiving 10000 doses per day when we are vaccinating around 1.7 million people per day across the country. Shouldn’t we be getting 3 times that quantity at this point one in 60 Americans live in Maryland?