Posted on 01/06/2021 10:11:43 AM PST by Kaslin
If you live in Florida or Texas and you're 65 or over, you can get in line for a COVID-19 vaccine at a mall, stadium or drive-thru center. You may have to wait for hours, but being in line is better than being in the dark. That's where most New Yorkers are -- desperate to get the vaccine and with no way to sign up. It may be months before they can. It's a problem in many other states, too.
The first vaccines were shipped to the states on Dec. 13, but most are sitting on shelves unused, while some 2,600 people a day die from COVID-19 nationwide. State and local officials -- including Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill De Blasio in New York -- are showing a depraved indifference to human life as they play politics over who gets vaccine priority.
It's time for the public to demand that these officials open up mass vaccination centers and get the lifesaving shots into our arms.
De Blasio is boasting that 1 million city residents will be vaccinated by the end of January. But as of Monday, a handful of sites have been opened for health care workers only.
The mayor says he plans to send an email to city employees asking them to volunteer to administer the vaccines. With deaths mounting and ICU beds filling, more is needed. De Blasio should be asking Cuomo to call in the National Guard to set up and operate vaccination sites. West Virginia, Ohio and Maryland are already using the Guard and turning armories into vaccine clinics. State and local officials should be treating vaccination like a D-Day invasion in the war against the virus.
Or they could follow the example of New York's response to the challenge of smallpox in 1947. With no warning, smallpox -- a deadly disease thought to have been eradicated -- was brought to New York by a sick traveler. All it takes to spread smallpox is a cough, sneeze or touch -- just like COVID-19. Back then, the city health department swung into action and vaccinated over 6 million residents in one month. First come, first serve. And it worked. Only two New Yorkers died.
Compare that with thousands expected to die in the coming months while waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine.
De Blasio says the city would be moving faster if the state would loosen regulations on who can receive the vaccine. He's got a point. Right now, the state is limiting the vaccine to health care workers and long-term care residents, and next in line will be "essential workers" -- mostly from unions -- and people over 75. That means seniors ages 65 to 74 and adults with critical health problems will wait several months.
The Cuomo administration is adamant about that schedule, even though two-thirds of vaccines are unused.
That's a mistake. States doling out vaccines in tiny increments are letting people die needlessly and delaying herd immunity, when enough people can be vaccinated to stop the virus.
The invasion of a new, more contagious strain of COVID-19 is another reason to vaccinate widely, advises former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. It's likely to become the dominant strain, increasing everyone's risk. He advises "moving more quickly into a general vaccination program" for people 65 and up.
Will Cuomo listen? He's shown a callous lack of interest. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requested a vaccine rollout plan, New York sent in 83 pages of blather. No specifics on where the shots will be given and who would administer them when hospital staff is already stretched. No real plan, yet we've known for months the vaccines were coming.
But when the Buffalo Bills made it to the playoffs, Cuomo jumped into action, charging the state health department to come up with a precision plan to open the stadium at limited capacity. Meanwhile, next Saturday, when the Bills play, another 150 New Yorkers will likely lose their lives to COVID-19.
New Yorkers should be screaming bloody murder about the vaccination delay. Because that's what it is.
So should Americans in many other states. The problem threatening lives is not a shortage of vaccines. It is a shortage of urgency and commitment on the part of state and local officials. When California Gov. Gavin Newsom was confronted with the embarrassing fact that a staggering 76% of vaccines are still unused in his state while Californians die every day from COVID-19, Newsom said we ought to be "humble" about what can be achieved. Nonsense.
The public does not need a lecture about being humble. They need action now. Their lives are at stake.
Yep its a Deadly Vaccine.
Alternately, you could just not take an untested injection that has not proven that it stops anything. Just a little of what i call common sense. Who knows what it does. Keep in mind that the fastest a vaccine has been brought to market before is 4 years, and typically it takes 8. Somehow, i find it unlikely that they were able to pull off the same sort of success in 8 months. Just me, though.
Pass
Someone can have my dose
Well You don’t know if it’s deadly or not, and neither am I, but as I am in Quarantine, forced in by my son who’s also in quarantine along with his 83 year old dad my husband. There is no way that we can get the virus, so it’s not necessary for us to get the vaccine.
Mine too. See my post below yours.
The states and county health departments run the vaccine distribution program. The whole country is cucked from the ground up.
They will, the 21st of January.
Another idiotic comment from the peanut gallery
Wow the anitvaxxers are out in force. The majority of people want this and see it has a way to get back to normal.
It gets tiresome listening to all the bitching from our side that is allegedly morally superior but unfounded in fact a
That is because you are uneducated about the Covid vaccines.
Traditional vaccines work by giving you part of the virus.
The Covid vaccines use mRNA or Messenger RNA that triggers your immune response against the virus instead of just letting the virus replicate.
mRNA vaccines re-write your genetic information so the body fights the virus.
This is why they are having higher success rates with these vaccines (90%+) versus traditional vaccines that are about 50% effective.
Could these vaccines have some massive side effect? Yes, but the probably is very, very low.
I see this as much like those who believe 5g cellular towers will kill millions.
The majority of people do not want this. Stop with your shilling.
I know personally MANY healthcare workers that rejected this Frankenstein garbage so just sit down and stfu
Why can’t we just send the vaccines to CVS and walgreens?
Refer back to the common sense phrase. Vaccine development has never been fast, and this is suddenly 7 times faster development? Uh, yeah, call me skeptical. Also, vaccines you typically get have been tested on 10s of millions before they ever reach you. You want to be a guinea pig, go ahead, its your choice and no one will stop you. I’ll, at a minimum, wait until several hundred million guinea pigs get their doses. And even moreso for my kids - there are rumors that it could cause sterilization. Not a big deal for me but for my 6 year old son and 2 year old daughter? And NO way to sue over the possible side effect that ends your bloodline (son is last of my bloodline that has gone back 400+ years that we know of) ? Its not anti-vax. Its caution. Its skepticism. Its wait-and-see. And mostly, its a lack of trust in our government doing just about anything right.
Not in North Texas.
Denton County gets occasional shipments in, then they are supposed to notify the public so they can sign up.
Thing is, when they get a shipment they call their 65-yr or older friends and get them in. By the time word leaks the shipment is in, too late to sign up and get it.
AND THEY DONT LET ANYONE SIGN UP ON A WAITING LIST!!
No way to get it unless your primary care doc gets a shipment and right now, my primary care doc has not received any shipment.
So be friends with someone in the Denton County Health Dept office and get the shot, or just be a drunk/druggie sleeping in their doorway and by chance you will know when the vaccines in and you walk in.
Called the Denton County Health Dept the other day and the “lady” answering the phone, she started with barking “What do you want!”
No hello. No can I hep you. Nothing.
Yes, I know, but to jeep peace in my home, wife unit wants me to get the vaccine ASAP because of my lung and other issues. After 43-yrs of marriage, you learn to pick your battles. This is not a fight I want to start with the wife.
Hmmmm
All of my colleagues are already vaccinated
Where I live people are clamoring for the injection. Our state government is opening large vaccination sites and they are being heavily used.
You are plain wrong.
You are confusing things.
Stopping a flu virus is like stopping the common cold, not something with a specific genetic structure, like mumps.
Educate yourself on these medical matters.
Perhaps you should speak with more specificity. You say vaccine and throw the word around but you don’t mean the broad category of vaccines. You mean something specific and then want to get pedantic when someone calls you on the general version of the word. Well done.
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