Posted on 03/24/2021 6:11:56 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
Galveston – It is considered one of the more interesting proposals in the push to get people shots of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Galveston’s top doctor wants to give priority boarding on the Galveston-Bolivar ferry to people who have received the COVID-19 vaccine.
“We’ll work out a deal with the ferry so that people (who) get vaccinated, get on the ferry first,” said Dr. Philip Keise with the Galveston County Health Authority.
Keiser is floating the idea and says they need creative ways like this one to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible.
Kathy Comeaux of Bolivar said she’s not planning on getting the vaccine just yet. She said she’s had several friends who have experienced adverse reactions. But she believes the doctor’s idea makes sense.
“I could see where it would be maybe advantageous for others who would be wanting to get it and enable them to make use of that time,” she said.
Keiser says the idea will be easier to pull off as we move further into the spring and summer travel seasons and as activity in the area increases for events like Jeep Weekend, which is scheduled for May.
“We’ll just go down the line ‘Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.’ One-shot and done,” said Keiser.“ Have some medical personnel on the ferries so that they can watch those folks as they’re going over. Make sure there’s no problem. Why not?”
Notice they didn’t say block entry they are using the carrot not the stick here. Locals will tell you in peak season the wait for a ferry can be 3 hours or more in line moving to the front of that line is a big carrot. They legally can’t stop people from boarding but they sure can let people line jump boarding is up to Captain he is the law on any vessel no matter how small or short of the ride.
I don’t think he could throw a roadblock up on a State road, and demand that people refusing to submit to a non-mandatory medical therapy must wait to proceed behind others he favors.
This will be shot down fast.
Like South Dakota’s governor, most Republicans in Texas are OWNED by the Chamber of Commerce types. So this is a good test case - will Texas outlaw this crap, or will the Chamber of Commerce win another victory against America.
There already is a road block it’s called the ferry lines. There are 4 lanes to line up in they will simply make it 3 lines for everyone and one line for those with proof of vax when the load master starts the loading he drops the metal bollards in front of the vax line first easy peasy. I doubt the Texas Supreme Court’s gonna get involved over the inconvenience of having to wait longer at a ferry line. There is no way the Galveston County judge who is deep blue gonna rule against the vaxers they are all in hence the Texas Supreme Court only they would have the last say. They will punt it back and the lower court will stand. No skin off my teeth I have my CDC vax card and will be applying for a yellow card as soon as the CDC issues them for international travel I intend to be in Ireland as soon as it’s open to Americans with the vax.
“Why not”
Perhaps because its EXPERIMENTAl never used on humans before FOOL!
Whoops for you! So you took a vaccine that you don’t even know if it’s really effective. You get to get on a ferry first, aren’t you proud!?!
No I took the vaccine because I am a PhD level scientist and can read and understand medical Journal data. As for effectiveness the Israelis have over 600,000 data points. Out of 620,000 fully vaccinated 21 got sick enough too need medical care. Let those numbers sink in. I’m not afraid of some tinfoil conspiracy crap, Trump removed the red tape and allowed science to find what effectively is a cure for the original and the UK strain the variants are still being tested against but the Mrna tech can within days be codes to the new spike protein sequences. Save your scientific ignorance for people who care I don’t I looked at the real world data and saw the risk of negative outcome from the vaccines was 0.0018% or less while my age and health cohort has a 3% CFR rate from the virus. Also having watched face to face two people die while in a full tvek body suit and airmask with positive pressure I said nope I’ll risk the 0.0018% vs the kind of death I saw. Don’t even parrot the lie of 99.9 whatever death rate it’s been bunked as fakenews Johns Hopkins University school of medicine has the real data it’s well above 2% for at risk people upwards of 8% for seniors.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/vaccine-prevents-989-of-covid-19-deaths-israel/a-56638291
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