Equity in vaccine distribution

[Anonymous]

Equity = illness and death for everybody!
Thanks Mayor Bowser.
You suck at your job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC's covid numbers are on a very bad trajectory. Now we know why. The city is actively keeping shots out of arms.

It would be one thing if the system was working like DC intended and priority people were getting their shots, but that doesn’t seem to be the case, despite the extra access and tons of available appointments. Maybe time to up the monetary reward? DC will not move on until the quota is met.

[Anonymous]

With the amount of unused vaccine sitting in refrigerators the city needs to just pull it all and open mass Vax sites where it is just shots in arms for whoever wants them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With the amount of unused vaccine sitting in refrigerators the city needs to just pull it all and open mass Vax sites where it is just shots in arms for whoever wants them.

The incompetent fools running DC lack your common sense.

[Anonymous]

At this point if you are a DC resident who wants a shot, you need to re-register with the system and check the damn underlying conditions box.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been in DC for twenty years and this vaccine fiasco has put me over the edge and ready to move. I can not wait to vote Bowser out.

And I say that as someone who "won" the DC portal hunger games during the opening of the high-risk medical condition phase.

DC's COVID numbers are rising rapidly and people are going to die because of the incompetence.

Agreed. Born in DC, packing my bags! Only so many times you can get spit in the face. Oh and I do live in Ward 3 currently, but haven't always. But why work to nice things in a communist state?

I fear Bowser and most of the councilmembers would be happy to see us go so they wouldn't have to even pretend to serve our communities.

I moved here during the Williams years and remember the optimism of the Fenty years with some nostalgia. The current situation with vaccines really puts me in mind of the political shift that occurred after Michelle Rhee and Fenty ended their tenures and how that worked out for middle-income parents with high-achieving kids in the public schools. After a few years of welcoming middle-income families dependent on public school and promising that the schools would stretch to serve students at and above grade level rather than sell our kids out to artificially narrow the achievement gap, we were suddenly told (I think by Linda Cropp?) that DC was no longer trying to attract middle-income families with children. We cost too much, we dared to expect city services when the politicians only wanted to work with the underserved kids whose parents they considered to be their actual constituents, and if we moved to Maryland our tax contributions would simply be replaced by an endless cycle of single doggie parents. If I still had to depend on the city for public school (kids have graduated, not gone private) in the current political climate, I'd be really worried.

The extreme vaccine gatekeeping that's once again artificially imposing "equity" by ensuring that the "wrong" citizens don't get public resources is sounding awfully familiar, sadly. It does make me wonder if I can continue to live here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been in DC for twenty years and this vaccine fiasco has put me over the edge and ready to move. I can not wait to vote Bowser out.

And I say that as someone who "won" the DC portal hunger games during the opening of the high-risk medical condition phase.

DC's COVID numbers are rising rapidly and people are going to die because of the incompetence.

Agreed. Born in DC, packing my bags! Only so many times you can get spit in the face. Oh and I do live in Ward 3 currently, but haven't always. But why work to nice things in a communist state?

I fear Bowser and most of the councilmembers would be happy to see us go so they wouldn't have to even pretend to serve our communities.

I moved here during the Williams years and remember the optimism of the Fenty years with some nostalgia. The current situation with vaccines really puts me in mind of the political shift that occurred after Michelle Rhee and Fenty ended their tenures and how that worked out for middle-income parents with high-achieving kids in the public schools. After a few years of welcoming middle-income families dependent on public school and promising that the schools would stretch to serve students at and above grade level rather than sell our kids out to artificially narrow the achievement gap, we were suddenly told (I think by Linda Cropp?) that DC was no longer trying to attract middle-income families with children. We cost too much, we dared to expect city services when the politicians only wanted to work with the underserved kids whose parents they considered to be their actual constituents, and if we moved to Maryland our tax contributions would simply be replaced by an endless cycle of single doggie parents. If I still had to depend on the city for public school (kids have graduated, not gone private) in the current political climate, I'd be really worried.

The extreme vaccine gatekeeping that's once again artificially imposing "equity" by ensuring that the "wrong" citizens don't get public resources is sounding awfully familiar, sadly. It does make me wonder if I can continue to live here.

It’s really sad how the white DC residents don’t think their POC brothers and sisters are not deserving of vaccine access. You all are still way ahead in vaccine action rates because you gobble up all the appointments. And you think the schools should only serve your precious snowflakes rather than families that have lived in the city for generations. Go to MD!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been in DC for twenty years and this vaccine fiasco has put me over the edge and ready to move. I can not wait to vote Bowser out.

And I say that as someone who "won" the DC portal hunger games during the opening of the high-risk medical condition phase.

DC's COVID numbers are rising rapidly and people are going to die because of the incompetence.

Agreed. Born in DC, packing my bags! Only so many times you can get spit in the face. Oh and I do live in Ward 3 currently, but haven't always. But why work to nice things in a communist state?

I fear Bowser and most of the councilmembers would be happy to see us go so they wouldn't have to even pretend to serve our communities.

I moved here during the Williams years and remember the optimism of the Fenty years with some nostalgia. The current situation with vaccines really puts me in mind of the political shift that occurred after Michelle Rhee and Fenty ended their tenures and how that worked out for middle-income parents with high-achieving kids in the public schools. After a few years of welcoming middle-income families dependent on public school and promising that the schools would stretch to serve students at and above grade level rather than sell our kids out to artificially narrow the achievement gap, we were suddenly told (I think by Linda Cropp?) that DC was no longer trying to attract middle-income families with children. We cost too much, we dared to expect city services when the politicians only wanted to work with the underserved kids whose parents they considered to be their actual constituents, and if we moved to Maryland our tax contributions would simply be replaced by an endless cycle of single doggie parents. If I still had to depend on the city for public school (kids have graduated, not gone private) in the current political climate, I'd be really worried.

The extreme vaccine gatekeeping that's once again artificially imposing "equity" by ensuring that the "wrong" citizens don't get public resources is sounding awfully familiar, sadly. It does make me wonder if I can continue to live here.

It’s really sad how the white DC residents don’t think their POC brothers and sisters are not deserving of vaccine access. You all are still way ahead in vaccine action rates because you gobble up all the appointments. And you think the schools should only serve your precious snowflakes rather than families that have lived in the city for generations. Go to MD!

1) Everyone needs the vaccine and no citizens should be prevented from going out and getting it because of their race, address, or fashionableness.

2) No citizen who meets age or health-based criteria for the vaccine and stands up to claim the public service they're entitled to use is "gobbling". Just stop that. You're reframing normal and productive behavior in a negative light by putting a negative spin on it. I'm sickened by the number of people who repeat this kind of pejorative language uncritically.

3) I don't object to the vaccination centers that geographically favor POCs and the extensive outreach campaigns. But blocking everyone else from using the services they're ALSO entitled to use, especially when they're not even actually provided by the DC government, is just plain wrong.

3) The schools should serve all children. That's really hard to do and in recent years, DC has simply declined to attempt to live up to the challenge.

4) All places that have been inhabited for more than one generation experience demographic change. This is a normal thing too, and although your historical memory is selectively short, it has happened in DC many times before.

[Anonymous]

Letting vaccine sit on the shelf because you don’t want the white and wealthy people to have it is stupid. New vaccine comes in all the time. Supply is pretty good now. I have no problem with the city spending a boatload of money to try to get everyone to take the shot and going door to door. I don’t expect anyone to come to my door. But I have an extreme problem with the city claiming there’s just not enough supply for the people who are already eager to protect themselves and end the pandemic when it’s languishing on the shelf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been in DC for twenty years and this vaccine fiasco has put me over the edge and ready to move. I can not wait to vote Bowser out.

And I say that as someone who "won" the DC portal hunger games during the opening of the high-risk medical condition phase.

DC's COVID numbers are rising rapidly and people are going to die because of the incompetence.

Agreed. Born in DC, packing my bags! Only so many times you can get spit in the face. Oh and I do live in Ward 3 currently, but haven't always. But why work to nice things in a communist state?

I fear Bowser and most of the councilmembers would be happy to see us go so they wouldn't have to even pretend to serve our communities.

I moved here during the Williams years and remember the optimism of the Fenty years with some nostalgia. The current situation with vaccines really puts me in mind of the political shift that occurred after Michelle Rhee and Fenty ended their tenures and how that worked out for middle-income parents with high-achieving kids in the public schools. After a few years of welcoming middle-income families dependent on public school and promising that the schools would stretch to serve students at and above grade level rather than sell our kids out to artificially narrow the achievement gap, we were suddenly told (I think by Linda Cropp?) that DC was no longer trying to attract middle-income families with children. We cost too much, we dared to expect city services when the politicians only wanted to work with the underserved kids whose parents they considered to be their actual constituents, and if we moved to Maryland our tax contributions would simply be replaced by an endless cycle of single doggie parents. If I still had to depend on the city for public school (kids have graduated, not gone private) in the current political climate, I'd be really worried.

The extreme vaccine gatekeeping that's once again artificially imposing "equity" by ensuring that the "wrong" citizens don't get public resources is sounding awfully familiar, sadly. It does make me wonder if I can continue to live here.

It’s really sad how the white DC residents don’t think their POC brothers and sisters are not deserving of vaccine access. You all are still way ahead in vaccine action rates because you gobble up all the appointments. And you think the schools should only serve your precious snowflakes rather than families that have lived in the city for generations. Go to MD!

Not the PP, but that's not it at all. No one was served well by this roll out, and Ward 3 especially poorly so residents everywhere have a complete right to grumble. But easier for our pols to go to pressers with a "we need more vaccine" mask than serve the people.of DC well. Whatevs. Keep deluding yourself that this is about us vs them like the Mayor wants you to think. Baaah sheep!

[Anonymous]

If you are white and live in NW, the only excuse you have for not being vaccinated is stupidity. I’m white and live in NW and got vaccinated last year by simply lying. Literally all of my friends in NW DC have used lies, connections, $, etc to get vaccinated. I understand why communities of color can’t access the vaccine, eg, lack of money, drive, connections, sophistication. But it boggles my mind to hear whites claims they can’t get vaccinated.

[Anonymous]

It disgusts me when I hear the whites starting to sound like communities of color, eg, whoa is me, I’m being victimized. Please. Your white, intelligent and relatively wealthy - stop whining and take care of your vaccine problem by yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It disgusts me when I hear the whites starting to sound like communities of color, eg, whoa is me, I’m being victimized. Please. Your white, intelligent and relatively wealthy - stop whining and take care of your vaccine problem by yourself.

Terrible advice all around. Nobody I know is lying to jump the line, and the DC government needs to be held accountable for its utter and abysmal failure with the vaccine rollout.

[Anonymous]

Bowser made this a racial issue. It did not need to be.

More division in this country is not what we need. A fully disclosed plan and a process that WORKS - would have made a world of difference.

Vaccines sitting on shelves or (as per Giant) not being requested is just wrong - for everyone. And, frankly, we all want the POC in the city to get a vaccine - the positivity rates are not going to go down until they do. We need to move on as a city - like huge portions of the country already have done so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are white and live in NW, the only excuse you have for not being vaccinated is stupidity. I’m white and live in NW and got vaccinated last year by simply lying. Literally all of my friends in NW DC have used lies, connections, $, etc to get vaccinated. I understand why communities of color can’t access the vaccine, eg, lack of money, drive, connections, sophistication. But it boggles my mind to hear whites claims they can’t get vaccinated.

You sound like a despicable person. I know plenty of people in NW DC (I am not sure where white comes into it, though socio-economics may. MY NW neightbors are prettyy diverse) patiently waiting. I agree at this point, there is not point in patiently waiting and get it wherever/whenever you can because the city is not interested in vaccinating anyone--but I don't condone lying to get one a month ago when we all thought the city was actually trying (perhaps in a bumbling way) to do the right thing. Now, the proof is simply in the numbers.