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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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?[/quote]

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.

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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![/quote]

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.
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