Tommie the Commie also refused to receive a COVID test until more than six months into the pandemic.
Is this "leadership by example", altruism,
...or just plain cowardice?
Posted on 03/02/2021 3:10:52 PM PST by lightman
Pennsylvania’s Gov. Tom Wolf, at age 72, clearly falls into the state’s Phase 1A eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccines.
But Wolf said Tuesday he hasn’t received the vaccines.
“I don’t want to be seen as butting in line,” Wolf said.
Wolf has urged Pennsylvanians to get the vaccine when it’s their turn.
Phase 1A currently includes individuals 65 and older, health care professionals and employees, and individuals 16 to 64 with a high-risk condition. Wolf said his administration expects to make an announcement Wednesday about teachers in Pennsylvania being added to the list of individuals who are eligible for shots in Phase 1A.
Wolf said he was on a call with the White House on Tuesday morning. Wolf said the Biden administration explained that by the first week of April, 20 to 22 million doses of the vaccine a week are expected to be available to get into Americans’ arms, with higher amounts being shipped out in the weeks that follow.
“By then, I think it will be easier to say it’s time” to get vaccinated, Wolf said. “I don’t want to be seen as jumping in front of the line.”
The governor tested positive for COVID-19 in early December and announced two days after receiving positive test results, that he tested negative.
In January, House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, R-Centre County, sent a letter to Wolf and then-state Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine asking for statewide elected officials, lawmakers and appointed state officials to be moved to the end of the line when the general public becomes eligible for vaccines in Phase 2 unless, like Wolf, they meet one of the other underlying criteria for eligibility in a higher phase.
Currently, government officials are listed in Phase 1C, along with at-risk Pennsylvanians with pre-existing condition.
“We should not be advanced in line to receive this life-saving vaccine at a time when supplies remain limited,” Benninghoff said. “Regardless of supply, we should not be advanced before the general public and certainly should not be able to receive this vaccine at the same time as at-risk populations.”
Benninghoff received no response to his letter, according to his spokesman, Jason Gottesman.
Wolf said when he does get the vaccine, the public will know it. He plans to get his shot in the arm at a public event.
Tommie the Commie also refused to receive a COVID test until more than six months into the pandemic.
Is this "leadership by example", altruism,
...or just plain cowardice?
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For what its worth I got the second dose of Moderna today.
Absolutely no problems 5 hours since getting it.
Someone probably told him he had to take a test first and he figured he couldn’t pass it.
My BIL had COVID. Just got the 2nd Pfizer. Feels like death warmed over.
Just 5 hours?
Check back with us tomorrow.
If you’re still doing fine, pretty good indication that you never had COVID or serious COVID exposure.
I can’t BUY a shot, and after trying to get one for 4-5 weeks, all I still get is “No Appointments Are Available”. Neither Wellspan or UPMC Networks have vaccines, and therefore, no appointments.
My first shot with Moderna was definitely worse than my second. The first one had my let arm quite sore for about 2-3 days. The second one I had some mild soreness and some barely perceptible swelling for a day or two.
I did see colleagues who had some significant fatigue after their second shot. Still nothing I’d worry over.
Didn’t Wolf have covid for like a day and a half when it was politically convenient?
Being the virtuous person that I am, he can have my vaccine.
"The governor tested positive for COVID-19 in early December and announced two days after receiving positive test results, that he tested negative. "
Roughly coincided with his 3 week indoor dining shutdown.
Christmas coal to the restaurant industry.
Maybe he read the warning labels.
I can’t get an appointment for a vaccination, either. I’m eligible for one as I fall into the 1A category because I’m over 65. Now, even 30-year-old teachers in Pennsylvania will get a vaccine before I do.
Wolf shouldn’t get a vaccination until everyone in the state is vaccinated. It’s his fault that the vaccination process in Pennsylvania is so fouled up, his fault and that of his former health secretary, Rachel Levine, who left Pennsylvania with no vaccine distribution plan even contemplated, apparently.
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