Equity in vaccine distribution
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Anonymous
| I think the issue is that the folks who own property in DC and shoulder the tax burden don’t want poor public schools and crime. Nothing like your car stolen while you take your groceries in the house! Not to mention the continuous messaging of anti-wealth and “privileged” be damned is leading the city into placating folks who are all about equity - until the check comes due - which is a failing city. |
Anonymous
Tony Williams brought vibrancy and development to downtown DC. I disagree with Michelle Rhee, but school reform AND the charter movement (2 separate movements with different ideologies, that happened at the same time) brought more dynamic choice to a failing school system and lured families back in. Gentrification and the tail end of imprisoning a lot of the crack war folks brought lower crime. The 90s were good to DC. "Reform" + "Equity" may be what's next, but they should build on these successes-not squander it and become SF of the East. |
Anonymous
| You can’t force people to get the vaccine. There is a large group who refuse to get the vaccine. So a lot of effort wasted. |
Anonymous
No one is telling Ward 3 families that our kids are "last in line" for in-person learning. Ward 3 schools are accommodating a larger percentage of students for IPL than most schools in other wards are. And Ward 3 is last in line for the vaccine because our rates of infection and death from covid are low and our rates of being able to work from home are quite high -- and because we initially took a disproportionate share of vaccine appointments. If you think you're being treated "unfairly," go ahead and leave. Those of us who stick around will be happy to have less selfish neighbors. |
Anonymous
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The vaccine appointments are filling up. Therefore, the vaccines are not being wasted.
Mayor Bowser is doing fine with vaccine distribution now and is focusing on residents. However, she needs to get the percentage of vaccines being distributed to be higher. |
Anonymous
Well, you could be proactive and smoke a pack and order some pizza and donuts... Nobody’s stopping you but your own lack of initiative! 
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Anonymous
Smoking is not a priority group, and BMI has to be over 30 in DC as opposed to 25 in VA. So I don’t think DC is being too generous with the health conditions. |
Anonymous
| Because |
Anonymous
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Do you have school aged children?
Do you own your own property? Do you contribute/support local businesses or charities? I think this is what the PP means. |
Anonymous
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Can someone explain where the 10k weekly vaccines are going? Is the city doing mobile clinics or no sign-up drives (which I Hope is the answer instead of them just sitting around).
Also, per the DC sure vaccines are way down last week...why? Per the Post the city is waging a PR war because it doesn’t agree with White House reporting. But, I wish they would focus on vaccines in arms instead of a PR campaign. DCist with numbers that doesn’t account fir 19k vaccines: https://dcist.com/story/21/03/15/dc-expands-coronavirus-vaccine-eligibility-may-1-goal/" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://dcist.com/story/21/03/15/dc-expands-coronavirus-vaccine-eligibility-may-1-goal/ |
Anonymous
| Sorry - I am pp, dealing with autocorrect. The DCist article accounts fir vaccines, except for 10k of weekly city total. Where are those? |
Anonymous
WRT the 10K, some go to the hospitals and partners and about 2K go to special initiatives (bringing directly into senior housing, church clinics, etc). this has been standard week over week. |
Anonymous
Yes to all three, and I have no problem with prioritizing people at higher risk of bad outcomes from covid. |
Anonymous
Why does property ownership matter? Renters pay the landlords' property taxes. |
Anonymous
DC IS focused on the PR war which it does not realize it has lost. This is yet another occasion where DC can't decide whether or not it really wants to be treated like a state or a district. I'd like to know where all of the data is that all of the other states provide. Where are the second doses going? Why is the Federal Pharmacy Program allotment not going to pharmacies which participate in the program? DC is so busy yelling at the Fed that it is not doing its own housekeeping. WaPo is at least starting to point some of this out. If you take DC at its word and accept all of its data it will not show us, that would move DC from bottom five to bottom ten...are we really expected to be happy with that? Why has the published vaccination plan and strategy not been updated since last June when it was just cut and paste from some other strategy and never really applied? Why is DC not reminding people who have received an appointment that their first or second shot appointment is coming up? (maybe an email or a text message) Why is DC not participating in any of the dozen impossible to fake encrypted digital vaccination passports rather than just word of mouth and a white card with vaccination dates on it to prove vaccination status? Mayor is worried about Statehood PR rather than DC health...that is why. |