The God Among Governors is not having a good new year.

The Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in Manhattan wanted to give its extra vaccine doses to high-risk patients, but feared violating strict eligibility rules.

His Holy Deity Governor Cuomo imposed a rigid set of rules with draconian penalties for doctors and medical facilities. That has lead to this clusterfuck of needy people wanting to be vaccinated but they are sent away because they are not worthy yet of the Government’s healing alms.

Dr. Peter Meacher expected to receive just a small supply of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine to inoculate his staff at a network of clinics that he oversees in New York City. Instead, 600 doses arrived late last month, far more than he needed.

For two weeks, more than half of the supply sat in freezers. At other clinics in the city, small numbers of unused doses have even been thrown out.

Dr. Meacher said he would like to give the extra vaccine to high-risk patients, but had not for fear of violating strict eligibility rules from the state about who can receive it.

“It’s stressful and frustrating to have vaccine and to be unable to start giving it to our patients as quickly as we would like,” said Dr. Meacher, chief medical officer for the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in Manhattan, which serves some 18,000 L.G.B.T.Q. New Yorkers.

Notice the not-so-subtle introduction of sexual orientation politics (Youse hates da gays!) which makes you know the NYT Taco Stand is playing to a core political side. Oh well, who cares?

And now, cue the Social(ist) Justice violin section:

It was inevitable that in an era marked by inequity and radically conflicting interpretations of truth that the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine would be marked by so much delusion on multiple fronts. On the one hand are the rich, who are accustomed to finding workarounds whenever they want something that is in short supply and see little need for a different approach when it comes to protecting themselves from a disease that has largely devastated the underclass.

And don’t forget: DeSantis is the really bad Governor. He is killing everybody down here in Florida. There has been troubles down here with getting vaccinations rolling out, but the idea was and is to expand both locations and targets. Hard Rock Stadium alone will start to take appointments tomorrow to vaccinate 1,000 people a day.  The target will be frontline healthcare workers and seniors who are 65 and older for starters. If it follows the same path as testing and the supply holds and even augments, we will see the release of restrictions by end of March or perhaps even earlier.

Oh well.