My house has been calling and driving around CA for the past few days to try to get information, and I find it really disheartening. I’m not sure a single site we visited (and there have been 30+ at this point) had even vaccinated all of its healthcare workers. All government-run sites are closed on weekends and holidays, and no sites of any kind were open other than during normal business hours (at most 12 hours a day, often more like 8 hours). We ran into an old man at a closed site who hadn’t been able to get any kind of information from the vaccination site, and watched another old man do 30 full minutes of paperwork before getting his shot. Some of the older/wiser people in my house aren’t as depressed as I am after each excursion, because they say they already knew the world was inadequate, and this isn’t an update. Doesn’t mean it’s not a fucking disaster.
My mom is a teacher and 64, but since she’s not a K-12 teacher and is younger than 65, she’s in Tier 5 along with healthy 16-year-olds. Fuck that. She lives in Wisconsin, for which I have been completely unable to find any information on how a person might get vaccinated. (Let me know if you have info, please.)
Meanwhile in Arizona, a friend’s grandma got vaccinated at 2:24 AM, because they’re open 24⁄7 like some kind of sane people.
tl;dr everything is terrible and the faith in humanity I felt as a child is but a dim memory as my heart and soul are ground into the dust and shat on
My house has been calling and driving around CA for the past few days to try to get information, and I find it really disheartening. I’m not sure a single site we visited (and there have been 30+ at this point) had even vaccinated all of its healthcare workers. All government-run sites are closed on weekends and holidays, and no sites of any kind were open other than during normal business hours (at most 12 hours a day, often more like 8 hours). We ran into an old man at a closed site who hadn’t been able to get any kind of information from the vaccination site, and watched another old man do 30 full minutes of paperwork before getting his shot. Some of the older/wiser people in my house aren’t as depressed as I am after each excursion, because they say they already knew the world was inadequate, and this isn’t an update. Doesn’t mean it’s not a fucking disaster.
My mom is a teacher and 64, but since she’s not a K-12 teacher and is younger than 65, she’s in Tier 5 along with healthy 16-year-olds. Fuck that. She lives in Wisconsin, for which I have been completely unable to find any information on how a person might get vaccinated. (Let me know if you have info, please.)
Meanwhile in Arizona, a friend’s grandma got vaccinated at 2:24 AM, because they’re open 24⁄7 like some kind of sane people.
tl;dr everything is terrible and the faith in humanity I felt as a child is but a dim memory as my heart and soul are ground into the dust and shat on
Have you seen VaccinateCA, a volunteer effort that hopes to help CA citizens make sense of the mess in that state?
Yes.