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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The phases are based on jobs and the people who work in the front lines. The phases aren’t based on color. [/quote]

Last week, almost 2/3 of the doses in DC were reserved for "priority zip codes" based on race. People in these "priority zip codes" were also invited to compete with us for the remaining 1/3 of the doses even though this lot of appointments was the only one available to the rest of us. There can be no question that people in these communities need the vaccines, but the rest of us have family members with serious health problems too. The one day we were allowed to try to register last week left almost all of us empty handed, our families still unprotected, and it certainly left me with the feeling that no one on the City Council is actively representing my family's needs. We do actually need that from the people elected to represent us. This is not a situation where the "privileged" (or even relatively privileged) can get their needs fulfilled through some means other than city services. That's the argument that's used to keep parents with high-achieving students from demanding too much of DCPS, for example, but it doesn't apply here because we can't simply go private or move to Maryland for the vaccine.[/quote]

Just stop. If you don't live in a priority zip code, it's because more vaccine has already gone to the zip code in which you live. [b]Your neighbors already sucked up a larger share of the vaccine, so now all of you can make do with a smaller portion until things even out. [/b][/quote]

That isn’t true.  Let’s take my neighborhood.  From the DC website, Columbia Heights seniors got 1.2% of the vaccinations so far while Michigan Park seniors got 2.8% of the vaccinations.  If you look at the total populations age 18 and above, Columbia Heights got 3.5% and Michigan Park got 4.4% of the vaccinations.

Now here is the kicker, Columbia Heights has the most cases in all of DC and has more than double the number of cases of Michigan Park - 2048 to 961, yet Michigan Park is a priority area and Columbia Heights is not.  Please explain why the diverse neighborhood of Colombia Heights is not deserving of vaccinations.[/quote]

You are ridiculous. Columbia Heights is Ward 1, which has 23 percent seniors vaccinated, versus Ward 5 which has 14 percent vaccinated.[/quote]

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