Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After more than year of doing everything the DC government has asked of me by avoiding my friends and family, canceling all celebrations, and not traveling. After a year where my kids continue to be last in line for IPL seats and have had all of their activities cancelled. After watching trillions of dollars in government spending, yet having not received one cent from the federal or DC governments in personal stimulus, PPP, student loan forgiveness, rental assistance or the like (to the contrary I paid for part of this!). You’ll forgive me if I’m now tired and skeptical of vaccine “equity.” I’ve shouldered a disproportionate burden and all I ask is an equal place in the vaccine line.

I have also not traveled, not seen family, canceled activities, and only one of my kids is in person, and I also didn't get any of the stimulus. I can't speak for you, of course, but as someone who has not lost a job, not gotten sick, and not lost loved ones to the pandemic, I have a tough time saying my experience has involved "a disproportionate burden."

Anonymous wrote:After more than year of doing everything the DC government has asked of me by avoiding my friends and family, canceling all celebrations, and not traveling. After a year where my kids continue to be last in line for IPL seats and have had all of their activities cancelled. After watching trillions of dollars in government spending, yet having not received one cent from the federal or DC governments in personal stimulus, PPP, student loan forgiveness, rental assistance or the like (to the contrary I paid for part of this!). You’ll forgive me if I’m now tired and skeptical of vaccine “equity.” I’ve shouldered a disproportionate burden and all I ask is an equal place in the vaccine line.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After more than year of doing everything the DC government has asked of me by avoiding my friends and family, canceling all celebrations, and not traveling. After a year where my kids continue to be last in line for IPL seats and have had all of their activities cancelled. After watching trillions of dollars in government spending, yet having not received one cent from the federal or DC governments in personal stimulus, PPP, student loan forgiveness, rental assistance or the like (to the contrary I paid for part of this!). You’ll forgive me if I’m now tired and skeptical of vaccine “equity.” I’ve shouldered a disproportionate burden and all I ask is an equal place in the vaccine line.

+1. It saddens me that I’m currently planning to drive to NC to do a walk in appointment. I could not think less of the mayor and council at this point.

Anonymous wrote:After more than year of doing everything the DC government has asked of me by avoiding my friends and family, canceling all celebrations, and not traveling. After a year where my kids continue to be last in line for IPL seats and have had all of their activities cancelled. After watching trillions of dollars in government spending, yet having not received one cent from the federal or DC governments in personal stimulus, PPP, student loan forgiveness, rental assistance or the like (to the contrary I paid for part of this!). You’ll forgive me if I’m now tired and skeptical of vaccine “equity.” I’ve shouldered a disproportionate burden and all I ask is an equal place in the vaccine line.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have school aged children?

Do you own your own property?

Do you contribute/support local businesses or charities?

I think this is what the PP means.

Yes to all three, and I have no problem with prioritizing people at higher risk of bad outcomes from covid.

If only Bowser had chosen a more legitimate way of prioritizing people - less people would be resentful. She chose instead, to be divisive.

And then, in true D.C. fashion, has been unable to execute vaccine distribution in the best interests of the people who actually live here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you have school aged children?

Do you own your own property?

Do you contribute/support local businesses or charities?

I think this is what the PP means.

Yes to all three, and I have no problem with prioritizing people at higher risk of bad outcomes from covid.

Anonymous wrote:After more than year of doing everything the DC government has asked of me by avoiding my friends and family, canceling all celebrations, and not traveling. After a year where my kids continue to be last in line for IPL seats and have had all of their activities cancelled. After watching trillions of dollars in government spending, yet having not received one cent from the federal or DC governments in personal stimulus, PPP, student loan forgiveness, rental assistance or the like (to the contrary I paid for part of this!). You’ll forgive me if I’m now tired and skeptical of vaccine “equity.” I’ve shouldered a disproportionate burden and all I ask is an equal place in the vaccine line.

Anonymous wrote:After more than year of doing everything the DC government has asked of me by avoiding my friends and family, canceling all celebrations, and not traveling. After a year where my kids continue to be last in line for IPL seats and have had all of their activities cancelled. After watching trillions of dollars in government spending, yet having not received one cent from the federal or DC governments in personal stimulus, PPP, student loan forgiveness, rental assistance or the like (to the contrary I paid for part of this!). You’ll forgive me if I’m now tired and skeptical of vaccine “equity.” I’ve shouldered a disproportionate burden and all I ask is an equal place in the vaccine line.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain where the 10k weekly vaccines are going? Is the city doing mobile clinics or no sign-up drives (which I Hope is the answer instead of them just sitting around).

Also, per the DC sure vaccines are way down last week...why? Per the Post the city is waging a PR war because it doesn’t agree with White House reporting. But, I wish they would focus on vaccines in arms instead of a PR campaign.

DCist with numbers that doesn’t account fir 19k vaccines:
https://dcist.com/story/21/03/15/dc-expands-coronavirus-vaccine-eligibility-may-1-goal/" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://dcist.com/story/21/03/15/dc-expands-coronavirus-vaccine-eligibility-may-1-goal/

WRT the 10K, some go to the hospitals and partners and about 2K go to special initiatives (bringing directly into senior housing, church clinics, etc). this has been standard week over week.

DC IS focused on the PR war which it does not realize it has lost. This is yet another occasion where DC can't decide whether or not it really wants to be treated like a state or a district. I'd like to know where all of the data is that all of the other states provide. Where are the second doses going? Why is the Federal Pharmacy Program allotment not going to pharmacies which participate in the program?

DC is so busy yelling at the Fed that it is not doing its own housekeeping. WaPo is at least starting to point some of this out. If you take DC at its word and accept all of its data it will not show us, that would move DC from bottom five to bottom ten...are we really expected to be happy with that?

Why has the published vaccination plan and strategy not been updated since last June when it was just cut and paste from some other strategy and never really applied?

Why is DC not reminding people who have received an appointment that their first or second shot appointment is coming up? (maybe an email or a text message)

Why is DC not participating in any of the dozen impossible to fake encrypted digital vaccination passports rather than just word of mouth and a white card with vaccination dates on it to prove vaccination status?

Mayor is worried about Statehood PR rather than DC health...that is why.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The more hurdles are put in place, the worse the distribution will be. In places where equity has trumped efficiency (DC, MoCo, PGC), vaccine distribution is terrible. What these politicians fail to see is that this is not a normal fairness problem, because once someone gets the two (or one) shot(s), they are out of the demand pool. Therefore, the fastest way to get to herd immunity is to let the people who want it more take it first, and while that is happening, lay in the infrastructure to reach more reluctant / harder-to-reach communities. This will maximize herd immunity and minimize the chances for variants to spread. Instead, to virtue-signal to their bases, politicians in DC / MD (and the insufferable WaPo Metro section) just keep writing about equity and setting up more and more barriers to getting the shot, while our doses sit unused and the people who want the vaccine throw up their hands. This is a shameful failure of leadership but tracks with the current DEI obsession generally in our area.

X a million.
These half-baked policies fly in the face of public health. More people will get sick and die because of them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain where the 10k weekly vaccines are going? Is the city doing mobile clinics or no sign-up drives (which I Hope is the answer instead of them just sitting around).

Also, per the DC sure vaccines are way down last week...why? Per the Post the city is waging a PR war because it doesn’t agree with White House reporting. But, I wish they would focus on vaccines in arms instead of a PR campaign.

DCist with numbers that doesn’t account fir 19k vaccines:
https://dcist.com/story/21/03/15/dc-expands-coronavirus-vaccine-eligibility-may-1-goal/" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://dcist.com/story/21/03/15/dc-expands-coronavirus-vaccine-eligibility-may-1-goal/

WRT the 10K, some go to the hospitals and partners and about 2K go to special initiatives (bringing directly into senior housing, church clinics, etc). this has been standard week over week.