Credit where credit is due: DC has improved Resident Vaccine Coverage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is a disaster. I am 64, being treated for cancer and STILL waiting to be randomly selected for a vaccine in the city I’ve lived in for 30 years. I finally gave up and went to Maryland. Am eager to see when I finally get an email from DC vaccine saying I can make an appointment. Will likely be never. So frustrating. And to open up to all seems crazy when priority groups are still trying to get an appointment.

the hospital treating you couldn’t give you the vax?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe we are giving kudos to DC because any resident with a car / wherewithal is fleeing to MD to get vaccinated. Almost feels like that was DCs "strategy" in the 1st place.

It’s disgusting that DC residents are getting the vaccine in MD. DC gov’t had a horrible roll-out, but there is no honor among thieves, and stealing vaccines from MD residents is appalling.

Eh. The region has to recover as a whole for anything to work, so whatever gets more vaccines in bloodstreams is fine by me, even if DC intentionally botched their rollout.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am in my mid-50s with a preexisting condition and have been "preregistered" since day one. Haven't heard a single word about an appointment. How do I get one?

Are you registered with the hospitals? Georgetown, Sibley, GW? That is how I got mine last week - fifties with a preexisting condition.

No--you had to have been a recent patient, right? I have never been hospitalized, other than childbirth.

No you don’t. I pre registered a family friend at Georgetown and got an email to sign her up a few weeks ago. She’s MD resident and this was Georgetown

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe we are giving kudos to DC because any resident with a car / wherewithal is fleeing to MD to get vaccinated. Almost feels like that was DCs "strategy" in the 1st place.

It’s disgusting that DC residents are getting the vaccine in MD. DC gov’t had a horrible roll-out, but there is no honor among thieves, and stealing vaccines from MD residents is appalling.

Eh. The region has to recover as a whole for anything to work, so whatever gets more vaccines in bloodstreams is fine by me, even if DC intentionally botched their rollout.

Eh, it’s pretty immoral to drive to PG or rural MD and lie, cheat, steal your way into a vaccine to which you are not entitled, that’s pretty much the definition of white privilege. It’s nutty that DC allowed all this people who work from home in Fredericksburg or Annapolis and are not required to come in to be able to be vaccinated in DC, agreed, but that doesn’t ethically excuse vaccine “hunters” traipsing in to poor areas get vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe we are giving kudos to DC because any resident with a car / wherewithal is fleeing to MD to get vaccinated. Almost feels like that was DCs "strategy" in the 1st place.

It’s disgusting that DC residents are getting the vaccine in MD. DC gov’t had a horrible roll-out, but there is no honor among thieves, and stealing vaccines from MD residents is appalling.

Eh. The region has to recover as a whole for anything to work, so whatever gets more vaccines in bloodstreams is fine by me, even if DC intentionally botched their rollout.

Eh, it’s pretty immoral to drive to PG or rural MD and lie, cheat, steal your way into a vaccine to which you are not entitled, that’s pretty much the definition of white privilege. It’s nutty that DC allowed all this people who work from home in Fredericksburg or Annapolis and are not required to come in to be able to be vaccinated in DC, agreed, but that doesn’t ethically excuse vaccine “hunters” traipsing in to poor areas get vaccinated.

LMAO

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe we are giving kudos to DC because any resident with a car / wherewithal is fleeing to MD to get vaccinated. Almost feels like that was DCs "strategy" in the 1st place.

It’s disgusting that DC residents are getting the vaccine in MD. DC gov’t had a horrible roll-out, but there is no honor among thieves, and stealing vaccines from MD residents is appalling.

Eh. The region has to recover as a whole for anything to work, so whatever gets more vaccines in bloodstreams is fine by me, even if DC intentionally botched their rollout.

Eh, it’s pretty immoral to drive to PG or rural MD and lie, cheat, steal your way into a vaccine to which you are not entitled, that’s pretty much the definition of white privilege. It’s nutty that DC allowed all this people who work from home in Fredericksburg or Annapolis and are not required to come in to be able to be vaccinated in DC, agreed, but that doesn’t ethically excuse vaccine “hunters” traipsing in to poor areas get vaccinated.

LMAO

Agreed. People self-helping at the expense of poor people is a story as old as time.

[Anonymous]

It's only at the expense of thousands of doses going in the trash and being wasted.

This sounds like a case of unintelligent/ill-informed people trying to find something to be mad about just to feel anything at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe we are giving kudos to DC because any resident with a car / wherewithal is fleeing to MD to get vaccinated. Almost feels like that was DCs "strategy" in the 1st place.

It’s disgusting that DC residents are getting the vaccine in MD. DC gov’t had a horrible roll-out, but there is no honor among thieves, and stealing vaccines from MD residents is appalling.

Eh. The region has to recover as a whole for anything to work, so whatever gets more vaccines in bloodstreams is fine by me, even if DC intentionally botched their rollout.

Eh, it’s pretty immoral to drive to PG or rural MD and lie, cheat, steal your way into a vaccine to which you are not entitled, that’s pretty much the definition of white privilege. It’s nutty that DC allowed all this people who work from home in Fredericksburg or Annapolis and are not required to come in to be able to be vaccinated in DC, agreed, but that doesn’t ethically excuse vaccine “hunters” traipsing in to poor areas get vaccinated.

The FEMA sites in Maryland are open to all federal taxpayers as they should be. Stop hoarding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe we are giving kudos to DC because any resident with a car / wherewithal is fleeing to MD to get vaccinated. Almost feels like that was DCs "strategy" in the 1st place.

It’s disgusting that DC residents are getting the vaccine in MD. DC gov’t had a horrible roll-out, but there is no honor among thieves, and stealing vaccines from MD residents is appalling.

Eh. The region has to recover as a whole for anything to work, so whatever gets more vaccines in bloodstreams is fine by me, even if DC intentionally botched their rollout.

Eh, it’s pretty immoral to drive to PG or rural MD and lie, cheat, steal your way into a vaccine to which you are not entitled, that’s pretty much the definition of white privilege. It’s nutty that DC allowed all this people who work from home in Fredericksburg or Annapolis and are not required to come in to be able to be vaccinated in DC, agreed, but that doesn’t ethically excuse vaccine “hunters” traipsing in to poor areas get vaccinated.

The FEMA sites in Maryland are open to all federal taxpayers as they should be. Stop hoarding.

No they are not - they are people who live/work in MD. They were set up in MD b/c MD has done an awful job of rolling out the vaccine. That's why MD has a FEMA site. Many of us in DC are doing the ethical thing and waiting our turn - your apparent choice to go to PG for a vaccine that you are not qualified for is Trumpy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's only at the expense of thousands of doses going in the trash and being wasted.

This sounds like a case of unintelligent/ill-informed people trying to find something to be mad about just to feel anything at all.

Wacky. You do realize that if DC vaccine hunters weren't stealing the vaccines, the state would redistribute them to other areas in the state where they are needed?

[Anonymous]

I mean, when you start at the bottom, the only place to go is up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe we are giving kudos to DC because any resident with a car / wherewithal is fleeing to MD to get vaccinated. Almost feels like that was DCs "strategy" in the 1st place.

It’s disgusting that DC residents are getting the vaccine in MD. DC gov’t had a horrible roll-out, but there is no honor among thieves, and stealing vaccines from MD residents is appalling.

Eh. The region has to recover as a whole for anything to work, so whatever gets more vaccines in bloodstreams is fine by me, even if DC intentionally botched their rollout.

Eh, it’s pretty immoral to drive to PG or rural MD and lie, cheat, steal your way into a vaccine to which you are not entitled, that’s pretty much the definition of white privilege. It’s nutty that DC allowed all this people who work from home in Fredericksburg or Annapolis and are not required to come in to be able to be vaccinated in DC, agreed, but that doesn’t ethically excuse vaccine “hunters” traipsing in to poor areas get vaccinated.

The FEMA sites in Maryland are open to all federal taxpayers as they should be. Stop hoarding.

No they are not - they are people who live/work in MD. They were set up in MD b/c MD has done an awful job of rolling out the vaccine. That's why MD has a FEMA site. Many of us in DC are doing the ethical thing and waiting our turn - your apparent choice to go to PG for a vaccine that you are not qualified for is Trumpy.

The governor of MD expressly stated the Greenbelt site had no residential restrictions. Stop focusing on people who are getting the vaccine as the problem with equity. There is plenty of supply right now. The equity issue is because governments planned the rollout in a stupid way, failing to focus on the highest risk first by age; and is not conducting enough outreach to communities. Meanwhile, vaccine hesitancy is still a real thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe we are giving kudos to DC because any resident with a car / wherewithal is fleeing to MD to get vaccinated. Almost feels like that was DCs "strategy" in the 1st place.

It’s disgusting that DC residents are getting the vaccine in MD. DC gov’t had a horrible roll-out, but there is no honor among thieves, and stealing vaccines from MD residents is appalling.

Eh. The region has to recover as a whole for anything to work, so whatever gets more vaccines in bloodstreams is fine by me, even if DC intentionally botched their rollout.

Eh, it’s pretty immoral to drive to PG or rural MD and lie, cheat, steal your way into a vaccine to which you are not entitled, that’s pretty much the definition of white privilege. It’s nutty that DC allowed all this people who work from home in Fredericksburg or Annapolis and are not required to come in to be able to be vaccinated in DC, agreed, but that doesn’t ethically excuse vaccine “hunters” traipsing in to poor areas get vaccinated.

The FEMA sites in Maryland are open to all federal taxpayers as they should be. Stop hoarding.

No they are not - they are people who live/work in MD. They were set up in MD b/c MD has done an awful job of rolling out the vaccine. That's why MD has a FEMA site. Many of us in DC are doing the ethical thing and waiting our turn - your apparent choice to go to PG for a vaccine that you are not qualified for is Trumpy.

The governor of MD expressly stated the Greenbelt site had no residential restrictions. Stop focusing on people who are getting the vaccine as the problem with equity. There is plenty of supply right now. The equity issue is because governments planned the rollout in a stupid way, failing to focus on the highest risk first by age; and is not conducting enough outreach to communities. Meanwhile, vaccine hesitancy is still a real thing.

No, he did not. He said that Greenbelt was for people who live or work in MD. There are many problems with equity - and one of them is "good liberals" with self-maximizing moral compasses that convinces them that driving to Salisbury (dumb Trumpers don't want the vaccine) or PG (ignorant BIPOC don't want the vaccine). There actually isn't "vaccine hesitancy" among BIPOC in metro areas (nice try - clutch racial stereotypes are your jam). There is vaccine hesitancy among white republican men with some/no college in rural areas - but instead of allowing low demand to redistribute vaccines to population-dense areas, DC vaccine hunters (vampires) are creating artificial demand in rural areas and going to mass vax sites in Baltimore and PG. What ever ethical gymnastics gets your through the night, I guess- but you are absolutely part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, friend. PG Cty residents get priority but the site is open to all. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/coronavirus/vaccine-site-at-greenbelt-metro-to-offer-shots-to-anyone-not-just-marylanders/2632407/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, friend. PG Cty residents get priority but the site is open to all. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/coronavirus/vaccine-site-at-greenbelt-metro-to-offer-shots-to-anyone-not-just-marylanders/2632407/

If you work in MD, yes.