How to Cover Vaccine Deployment
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I would just leave this here, but I’ve been chatting with people and the point is apparently not as obvious as I had thought.
If you make it, they will come (sorry, field of dreams, better mousetrap, etc.). A covid vaccine at this point, is like the most desirable thing imaginable. I was overjoyed to realize that obesity was listed on the comorbidity list, because it means I get to be slightly earlier in the prioritization queue. My MIL’s strategy at one point to try to get the vaccine involved getting in line in the middle of the night, with a sleeping bag, a thermos of tea, some energy bars and a bag-lined bucket in the back. (In the event, there was no vaccine and the cops cleared them all out after a few hours. Adventures in The Villages! After the initial clearout, some went to a parking lot at a nearbyCracker Barrel, As One Does.) (She did eventually get a vaccination, but on another day, without having to camp out in her car.)
Right now, Q followers such as the one covered in the NYT profile of Valerie Gilbert, are pushing anti-vaccination articles produced by sources such as Breitbart and the Epoch Times. Meanwhile, regular news sources are talking about supply chain woes, lies pushed by Azar and others about how much might be available, etc. It’s all depressing. It doesn’t have to be. There is a lot of human interest in asking people about their strategy for surviving in a line of cars for hours to get a vaccine (seriously, ask about that bag-lined bucket). The right way to counter claims that ER nurses and firefighters are refusing the vaccine is not to apply pressure — that just leads to I Will Resist nonsense from people like Gilbert. (If only the people concerned with controlling their bodies re: vaccines were as concerned with supporting women’s rights to control their bodies more generally.)
The right way is :
Please! Refuse Your Vaccine! I’m in line behind you, and I want mine sooner.
I would just leave this here, but I’ve been chatting with people and the point is apparently not as obvious as I had thought.
If you make it, they will come (sorry, field of dreams, better mousetrap, etc.). A covid vaccine at this point, is like the most desirable thing imaginable. I was overjoyed to realize that obesity was listed on the comorbidity list, because it means I get to be slightly earlier in the prioritization queue. My MIL’s strategy at one point to try to get the vaccine involved getting in line in the middle of the night, with a sleeping bag, a thermos of tea, some energy bars and a bag-lined bucket in the back. (In the event, there was no vaccine and the cops cleared them all out after a few hours. Adventures in The Villages! After the initial clearout, some went to a parking lot at a nearbyCracker Barrel, As One Does.) (She did eventually get a vaccination, but on another day, without having to camp out in her car.)
Right now, Q followers such as the one covered in the NYT profile of Valerie Gilbert, are pushing anti-vaccination articles produced by sources such as Breitbart and the Epoch Times. Meanwhile, regular news sources are talking about supply chain woes, lies pushed by Azar and others about how much might be available, etc. It’s all depressing. It doesn’t have to be. There is a lot of human interest in asking people about their strategy for surviving in a line of cars for hours to get a vaccine (seriously, ask about that bag-lined bucket). The right way to counter claims that ER nurses and firefighters are refusing the vaccine is not to apply pressure — that just leads to I Will Resist nonsense from people like Gilbert. (If only the people concerned with controlling their bodies re: vaccines were as concerned with supporting women’s rights to control their bodies more generally.)
The right way is :
Please! Refuse Your Vaccine! I’m in line behind you, and I want mine sooner.
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Date: 2021-01-18 10:13 pm (UTC)CDC list
Date: 2021-01-18 10:37 pm (UTC)https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-vaccine-distribution-timeline-phase-overview
At the bottom of Phase 2 is a link to the CDC list of co-morbidities — having a co-morbidity makes you eligible there, before Phase 3, which I believe to be everyone else.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html
A friend noted that smoking is also on that list, and joked that it is “never too late to start”; that would have the effect of putting me at the top of Phase 2, alas, I would be dead, because I would not be able to stop coughing.