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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has to be careful. It is a magnet for folks whose mental illness is triggered by the industrio-political-military complex. They are attractefld.to DC to lodge their complaints. It also risks being overly generous with the social responsibilities of our neighbors (MD and VA), much like the early days of Covid vaccines. DC should take care of DC residents, and by take care of I mean shelter or hospitalize (including involuntarily). If someone is recently arrived from somewhere else and plops on the sidewalk, bus tickets home.[/quote]
Everyone I know in DC got their vaccine in MD.[/quote]

Yep.  Until about May, Bowser couldn’t get DC’s act together.  We know Washingtonians who drove to Winchester, Norfolk, Roanoke, even NC.[/quote]

Umm don't be obtuse.

The largest federal vaccination center was on the WMATA train line at the Greenbelt station.

https://www.wmata.com/about/news/Greenbelt-vaccination-site.cfm?alerts-widget-next-train-all=F11

It was provided by the U.S. Federal government not the government of Maryland - state lines in this case being immaterial. And don't act like all of you weren't pouring into our city for free Covid tests.[/quote]
Do you think Greenbelt is in DC? But also, they had JnJ there and no one wanted it. Literally everyone I know in DC got their shots at Six Flags, which was run by the state of MD.[/quote]

The statistics were that about half of DC shots went to folks from outside of DC the first 3 months. I hope their will be an inquiry into how the whole system was.managed, and then again, state by state (or city in DCs case)[/quote]

You realize of course that shots were prioritized based on workplace for many of the phases? I live in VA and got my shots in MD because my workplace is there and it was time for those workers to get vaxed. I know people who live in MD and work in VA so they got vaxed in VA. It shouldn't be surprising that many essential employees in DC do not live in DC, because few people want to live in DC. If you are merely a "resident" but not fulfilling a critical workplace role, why should you get vaccinated before someone who lives in MD but fulfills a critical role in DC? Makes no sense.[/quote]

I'm staying facts. Half went outside the city. [/quote]
Because the only people that could get a shot in DC were VIPs and half of them live outside the city. Ordinary people had to go to MD or VA. [/quote]
Exactly. half the shots went to people outside the city. The connection to homelessness, is that DC needs to coordinate with MD and VA--better than it did with Covid shots--to make sure it is taking up its fair part, but no more-certainly not theirs. They have the economic engines to take care of their homeless.[/quote]

The vaccine rollout is a small taste of what is to come if DC becomes a state. [/quote]

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