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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is withholding a federally-provided resource from sick middle income people who don't fit the city's favored demographic profile. The suggestion that everyone who lives outside the priority zip codes is healthy and wealthy is utterly false.[/quote]

You're an idiot. DC isn't "withholding" vaccine from people in wealthy Wards, they're keeping vaccine appointments equal among Wards because people with more free time and resources in wealthier Wards were getting MORE than their fair share of vaccines.

You're the absolute pinnacle of the old saying: "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."  [/quote]

The DC plan seems quite reasonable. And it seems to be slowly working. I just wish that DC wouldn't keep so many vaccines in storage for second doses, but rather use a rolling system. I know they were screwed over when the Trump admin made up their data about having 2nd doses, but things seem different now. They really could put another 20K-30K shots in arms this week if they opened things up.
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Hold on, what did Trump do to DC? He made up data about second doses?

I despised Trump but the thing that I remember was the Trump administration telling the Bowser administration not to retain vaccines for second doses because that was already in the federal government calculation. The Fed was basically saying, "use what we give you, when we give it to you, because we have already done the math based on your population." That is why West Virginia and Connecticut were rewarded so quickly with extra doses. DC was offered the same deal but thought they knew better.

I am all about smashing Trump for whatever, but I am curious as to what he did in this particular case.[/quote]

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