New York: Covid vaccines going unused and even thrown away.
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.
Interesting numbers to consider for the future
From Newsweek:
45 Percent of Republican Voters Support Storming of Capitol Building: Poll
Almost half of Republicans support the pro-Trump protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, putting them at odds with Democrats who largely oppose the actions of the demonstrators, a poll has found.
The survey released by YouGov on Thursday morning found that 45 percent of Republican voters backed the attack on the Capitol building, while 43 percent said they “strongly or somewhat” opposed the protesters’ behavior.
In 2020, Donald Trump received 74,222,958 votes.
If this poll holds true across the board, you can assume roughly 33.4 million Americans have been so pissed off by the anomalies and shenanigans surrounding our election and the way Congress has behaved in the last year that Congress should have its ass kicked.
That’s more than the population of Texas or almost the entire population of California in terms of scale.
Thats 21% of the voting public.
That’s not a genie easily put back into the bottle.
Something is going to shake loose unless we take great steps to rectify it honestly.
And he should use it!
As some worry about Trump having access to nuclear codes, recalling what I reported about Trump’s 2017 trip to Puerto Rico where he was showing off nuclear football to the governor. pic.twitter.com/MgfFxv87A6
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 8, 2021
Yup, and the very last thing Trump should do, and I mean like right-fucking-now, is crack open that briefcase and obliterate Iran.
Drop a couple of W88s on the Mullahs and walk away like a fucking boss.
Legendary.
Anybody remember the last time the senate was stormed?
It is Year Zero, so anything that happened previously didn’t happen.
But in October of 2018, protesters took over the Hart Senate Office Building, 300 people were detained in that mostly peaceful protest.
There was video.
But these were Leftist protesting q conservative SCOTUS nominee, not Trump supporters believing that we has an unfair and dishonest election.
Was it exactly the same? No. But let’s not pretend that the Senate being stormed never happened before.
