I'm 33, wife is 37, and her MIL is 74 living with us. We can't find another assisted living facility until things open up and allow visitors, that may not happen for at least another month. I'm mostly worried about us not killing her mom, our 3 year old is in daycare and we don't have the ability to keep her home of I'm working full-time and my wife is caring for her mother practically full-time. The important thing is her mother has Alzheimer's, it's why my wife had to move her out of an assisted living facility in Fresno that wasn't able to care for her as she stubbornly didn't want to move to Georgia from out of her original house right away. When things locked down hard and she couldn't see anyone she started losing weight and wondering out of the facility randomly. This wasn't a facility that was equipped to deal with her how severe her memory issues quickly became so that forced my wife's hand to move her across the country. My wife's brother sudden became an asshole about all this even though he lives in Arkansas and wasn't doing much to help, needless to say it's been an intensely stressful time since September.
I don’t read this as blackmail. I’m reading it as they are volunteering their 800,000 employees for vaccination. In the headlines yesterday I was reading about Amazon/Walmart having a strong distribution network that can get the vaccines out quickly. However, I’m not aware of challenges with distributing the vaccine itself. I think the bottleneck is in administering/identifying vaccine candidates. Vaccines should not be sitting on the shelf for days on end in clinics, I’d like to see 24/7 vaccine clinics start popping up to get those doses in arms ASAP.
Well to no ones surprise the Trump admin had zero plan. Let’s hope the Biden team can get a coherent plan spun up quickly which I assume they already have ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’m still so confused at the vaccine manufacturers saying they have enough supply, but somehow the federal government has none
For those of you that have had covid recently, have you made any changes with your lifestyle? Had it two weeks ago and really want to go to a restaurant for first time in a year. Any reason not to?
My personal opinion is even if you've had the second dose I'd probably wait another few weeks when hopefully cases really have dropped and the percent positive of testing in your area drops below 10%.
ohh, I'd be waiting even longer then given that people are getting reinfected and we have multiple strains circulating. If you're eating outside on a patio that's probably a lot better though.
please do not let anything in this post sound like a defense of the dumb fat orange man, because his response to the virus has been bad and cost thousands of lives. however, of course this is what the Biden administration will say to set expectations as low as possible for a ramp up. there may be 'no federal plan', and states may be a shit show, but we're still vaccinating about 910,000 people a day in america on average. Biden's stated goal is 100 million shots in 100 days, well the non-existent plan is already at 91% of that goal and that's without a 3rd vaccine coming online yet. if that's the case they are telling on themselves with regard to how ambitious their vaccine goal is.
I appreciate the tightrope act you did in wording that. 10% increase is hopefully the floor they are trying to hit and not the ceiling. 100 days will tell. Any increase is better than current numbers though imo.
of course, and I hope that DPA and another vaccine coming online will make numbers double that. I hope the new admin knocks it out of the park. I just hate blindly listening to incoming administration officials who have all the incentive in the world to sound like there is nothing in place.
I agree that 100 million in 100 days would sort of be a disappointment, especially as its opened up to more and more people.
so I think the 100 million vaccines is too few and I think the Biden admin needs to ramp it up I do think saying it’s gamesmanship to say that Trump shit the bed isn’t really gamesmanship. What’s Trump done to show either a coherent plan or a seamless transition? And I don’t trust either, I kinda hate I’m defending Biden’s eh vaccine plan bc it’s too few in too long of a time.
Trump WH did deliver a lot of doses to the states. They also: passed on millions of additional Pfizer doses last summer withheld vaccine information from transition team criminally underfunded financially strapped states provided very little logistical/organizational support to states for getting shots in arms (wasted months of preparation while vaccines were in trials when military support could have been ramped up) If you don't call out the gross, criminal malfeasance of the previous WH when your term starts, when do you call it out?
You could almost assume the 10% increase in vaccinations over the next 100 days would occur without any additional help or mandates or intervention as all the parties involved get more familiar and comfortable (read as efficient) with the brand new procedure and rollout. It is almost like a goal that required no additional effort was set and the majority of people are happy with it because it is better than the numbers that are currently being achieved. And just so there is no confusion, Fuck Trump. Also, I hope the current administration is sandbagging like a mother-fucker on this matter publicly.
at the end of the day, biden's covid response will be judged off of one thing: will he be able to get me the vaccine in time for me to watch the first round of the ncaa tourney at chilis bar and grill that is it
that stuff should definitely be called out. that had nothing to do with my post, or what was in the cnn article, however.
So the thing I’m curious about is Scalise saying there were 300 million doses but Biden saying there’s supply chain issues. To that point why not use the power of the government to enact emergency use of factories and the like? I’m inclined to believe Biden Bc if that was the case Trump would have shouted it to the heavens
I'm no logistics and epidemiology expert, but I feel pretty comfortable in saying that most people are going to be able to get vaccinated by mid-summer if they so choose. I think it's very clear that Trump did absolutely nothing after he wasn't re-elected. Pfizer even came out in mid-December after they got EUA and said that they needed guidance from the federal government about where and how many doses they should ship. The States put in the work to setup all this themselves, unfortunately it was too late to ensure a smooth rollout.