Wife and I have our first shots next week, over 60. 87 y/o mother gets the J&J one shot this Friday. Maine.
I saw a post on a Reddit thread that gives an unlikely but plausible explanation:
It’s voter suppression by death. COVID impacts urban areas more and it hits lower income and black people more often. What do urban, low income and black all have in common? Democrats.
Against that background, the prospect of launching a large-scale national plan was losing favor, said one public health expert in frequent contact with the White House’s official coronavirus task force.
Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert.
Got Moderna #1 this morning at county Dept of HHS. Woman injecting me is a retired nurse who volunteered for this duty. I'd think there's not a lot of volunteer work more satisfying than administering vaccines in a pandemic that has killed millions. I expressed my gratitude, as I hope others did.
For every selfish idiot who has refused to wear a mask, there are ???? of her.
To keep the teachers alive.
Well yeah, I agree.
I still cling to the stupid notion we shouldn't have in person learning until everyone has a vaccine.
As the parent of a teacher, so do I.
Yeah, I imagine it's pretty awful having to watch your daughter be subject to the GOPuillotine. :-(
I meant no malice towards teachers. Just that we've got society writ large to protect. Especially the olds. But yeah, if we're going to fuck the teachers, at least give them a fighting chance.
I don't understand why school boards in red states continue to fund science curriculum. Have they taken steps to withhold vaccines for science teachers?
Walz says that due to the arrival of the J&J vaccine they will beat their "End of March" goal for 70% of people 65 and over. That is nice to hear.
Abbott of Texas is blaming the spread of COVID in Texas on illegals. That sounds about right for that clown.
The Republican Scapegoat. Illegals. They're the reason "trickle down" never worked, you know.