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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now WHAT is going on here? Howard U can't find DC residents to vaccinate? I was fine reading about HBCU vax clinics until the last two paragraphs:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/hbcus-covid-vaccines/2021/02/12/f2079690-2aea-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html

"That anxiety is what pushed Tasya Bracey, [b]a 46-year-old chef from Bowie, Md[/b]., to get vaccinated on Howard’s campus Thursday. “Death is not fun,” Bracey said, adding she has an 8-year-old daughter who needs her. Bracey, one of 500 people to receive a dose of the Pfizer vaccine at Howard this week, said she did not hesitate to get inoculated. She was encouraged by friends who are doctors and vouched for the treatment.Now that she’s finished with both doses, Bracey said she’s not in a rush to go live her life like she did before the pandemic.“I’m not going to change,” she said. “I’m still going to have my mask on. I still won’t hug my mom.” Mumbi Carter, 72, said she will also continue to wear a mask and avoid crowds. She received her final dose of the vaccine Thursday and is hopeful more people in her community will follow suit. [b]Carter, from Suitland, Md[/b]., encouraged people to “listen to the science.” Carter’s friend, 75-year-old Johnnie Harris, compared the vaccine to wearing a shield.“It’s a small price to pay to help the community,” Harris said about 15 minutes after getting the shot. “I feel great.”"[/quote]

PP. DC does not care. The Mayor is making a political statement using her electorate as the leverage. So far it seems to be working.

It is not a secret that residents from VA and MD are getting their inoculations in DC. DC deliberately does not require ID. Are most of the residents from VA and MD working essential jobs in DC? Maybe not. It really does not matter. It allows the Mayor blame local government lack of planning on the Fed. This is also why she refuses to use the Districts vaccine allotment stating that she is required to hold a portion in reserve, despite both the current administration and the past saying that second doses are the responsibility of the Federal government.

The goal here is diverting the populations attention from the city to the Fed so that the Mayor can use the pandemic for her statehood push. "If we were only a state, this would all be better."

Never let a good pandemic go to waste.

As long as NW DC residents do not start dying, there is really nothing to prevent her from this strategy. It really does not worry her that a DC resident will get their vaccine six months after a Suitland MD resident if that DC resident allows her to leverage the Fed for more money and vaccines.[/quote]

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