We’re google mapping the route. G says there are beautiful places.
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Wow. Where I live my neighbor’s 90-year-old parents only had one of them offered a vaccine (several hours away), impractical for so many reasons. They both go to the doctor in the largest healthcare system in our area every month or two, are registered in their healthcare system’s digital tool, and they are not poor people who are lacking access to health care. They first got their shots this week only because they called their local health department in exasperation about not being offered vaccines at all (him) or locally (her) and were offered “leftover” shots by the health department if they could get there within 15 minutes. Yay govt vs healthcare system for the win?
They live in an inner ring suburb of the largest city in our state. I just don’t get it. My parents, same healthcare system and registered in the same digital tools have already completed their series.
My 75-year-old uncle called his health care system Monday and was again told “don’t call us, we will call you”, whereas his wife, my aunt was contacted by her healthcare system months ago and has already completed her series. (He is stubborn and does not believe in the internet, and not okay with people invading his privacy/helping on his behalf). I’m very happy that my aunt, a disabled two time stroke and cancer survivor got her vaccine, but if my uncle falls ill, she loses her caregiver.
I’m incredibly thrilled that vaccines may be available to the general US adult populace as of May 1st, but holy shit we can’t even seem to reaching privileged elderly, so regardless of eligibility, I’m very concerned that the least privileged among us is going to be left behind.
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Can Canadians come to the us? That’s not fair. We can’t go there.
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Also my uncle with ALS got his first dose this week!!!¡!!!
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Heck yeah New Mexico!!
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That was the highest state I could find, but I can’t zoom in and the NE is so itty bitty it’s hard to click around.
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I don’t think anywhere here in NE is #1, WV and like… ND maybe?.. have been ahead this entire time. But all doing very well, near top of the class.
(CT is around 26% at least 1 dose.)
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Massachusetts is about 24% with at least one dose. We have been going up about half a percent a day.
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I’ve heard we can fly in, but I’m not sure. We’d need to hotel quarantine for two weeks when we got home. But it would be our last quarantine
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Can I hide in your suitcase on the way home?
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Yes. But I strongly suggest getting the vaccine in the states. We are not running swiftly
This was my first thought too; Michigan is not that far from Chicago!
Sigh. Again the mayor and city health officials are like “yeah, great, Biden - we’d love to be able to make all adults eligible by May 1, but right now we have a pathetically low vaccine supply so that’s completely not do-able.”
It’s like either they are ignoring the fact that supply is going to ramp up in coming months, or they know something they’re not sharing about how Chicago is deliberately being throttled. That sounds paranoid, but, like, I still don’t know why our supply is separate from the rest of the state. Are other large cities - NYC, LA, etc. - set up that way too? The cynical part of me assumes that it’s because there’s a very common believe in Illinois that Chicago and the people who live there are just this giant resource-sucking leech that harms the rest of the state by taking more than our fair share of everything.
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I have no idea about NYC, but LA is definitely not cut off that way. There are for sure people without reliable transportation options to get around the county, so some people are cut off by circumstance except where clinics come to them, but it’s done as a county.
That said, my aunt and uncle live in Orange County, the next county over from LA, and got their vaccines in Riverside County, where I live. I got mine in San Diego County. The appointment system is run by the state and doesn’t seem to stop people from going to different counties (we are giving them our true addresses).
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Theory: do you think it’s coming from a place of pressuring schools to re-open sooner, and that city leaders don’t want to wait for vaccines to fully roll out? I know school re-opening is (1) fraught and (2) the context about decision-making is extremely local (issues in Oakland are 100% different from issues in, say, North Carolina) so I’m not opening that Pandora’s box about whether they should re-open or not- that would just be my mildly informed guess.
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The City of Youngstown has its own list, and presumably supply, than the rest of the county. So city residents can go anywhere in the state but only they qualify for the clinic appointments in the city.
I don’t know who set it up that way, though.
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We don’t appear to be allowed to get vaxxed in other counties, if we are Chicago residents. Maybe that’ll change in the future but for now it’s pretty explicit. “Must live or work in blahblahblah county.” I even checked downstate, same thing.
Hell, Evanston - just over the Chicago city limits border - doesn’t even let them go to their OWN county. Because they have their own health department. Who at this time can only vaxx healthcare workers and anyone 75 or older.
ETA: I think I just answered my own question - Chicago also has our own health department. Duh.
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We can’t go anywhere in the state though. At least, not yet. I sort of think it might come to that, as more rural areas vaxx everyone who wants one. Since there’s more anti-vaxx sentiment and covid denial elsewhere, I can see not everyone taking the shot when offered.