Every state is different. Are you limited to your own city or county? Louisiana is a no. Mississippi doesn’t require even require residency.
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Is your county run by Democrats? Maybe check with them first before blaming anyone else?
I booked two appointments for qualified people today. There were plenty of appointments available for first and second doses all over the county.
Shinobi may be heading south … well, after the roads are cleared.
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Maybe check with them first before blaming anyone else?
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I didn’t see it as blame as much as a question. In fact, she even put a question mark on the end of it.
Although, I don’t understand your question mark at the end of your sentence, unless a word got cut off. What question were you asking?
Are you implying that you booked two appointments in @pattyb53’s county?
A rhetorical question mark can’t hide her true intentions.
I’m implying that vaccines are available in the state, and much of the distribution is handled by counties and healthcare systems, so one must look to the local government before laying blame on state government.
The county can only distribute what the state has allocated to them. If the county is sitting on freezers full of doses then sure, it’s their fault. But if they dont have any to distribute, it’s pretty hard to put the blame on their shoulders.
My knee-jerk take is that Patty’s county doesnt include the desired priority demographics for “fair” distribution, so they have yet to receive much relative to other CA counties. Or Patty has tunnel vision watching one stagnant source, and doesnt realize there are other active distribution channels.
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Thanks glitch. scripta seems to think I just want to blame my state democrats. True our governor Newsom, is to lazy to handle the government, so therefore many counties are failing to get shares of vaccines.
You are also implying that I don’t know how to go about getting an appointment. So you can get a couple of appointments for friends. Great! What a genius… 
Alright, let’s all get to the bottom of this. What county are you in? I know somewhere not far from SAC, but I don’t think you ever said.
Thanks, but I can manage.
While talking to a friend today. I asked if she & husband had taken the vaccination. To my surprise she said yes. As I suspected she has a friend at UOP (Univ of Pacific) & had inside vaccine knowledge. Soon she will be taking 2nd dose.
There you go, vaccine is still not available to most. Through her, we probably will get a vaccination.
Life is really not far.
UOP near Stockton?
Wow! Where can I sign up for that mind reading course from which you graduated? FYI, that is not a rhetorical question mark.
ETA: Never mind. Your mind reading course couldn’t have been very good. If it were, you could have read Bernie Madoff’s mind and known the difference between a spec bubble and a Ponzi scheme. 
Read much? She admitted it:
After your non-failed mind reading. I suspect that it was more to do with something else, but even a blind hog …
Now if you could do that with Bernie, you might have a smile.
Sure I blame the State Democrat Gov Newsom for lack of getting vaccine out. Back log you asked about County Supervisors, yes of course they are Democrats. This is CA, of which we are speaking.
I Don’t blame them. I’d wait for JNJ 1 dose or more traditional vax at this point too:
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Especially when they’re not going to be able to change what they’re having to do anyways. Resuming normal life is the big motivation to be vaccinated, for a majority of people - so when you still have to keep dealing with all the BS, then what’s the point?
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it’s really to help others, but I also blame the co.s for not researching and publicizing the transmission research which should be similar to other vax. So far the only self gain is you don’t have to quarantine if exposed or less likely to be hospitalized
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… which takes lowering the prevalence of the virus and thus also reducing the speed of new variants arising.
Vaccines and other measures together get to that point earlier.
Nevermind asking why motivation for a majority is not reducing the overall death and economic destruction to others rather than the “me only” motivation that you posited.
Reducing transmission by 2/3 is not reducing to zero. That’s still a very high level of transmission, added to the other transmission already occurring from people who aren’t vaccinated…
It’s also not so cut-and-dried on the “transmission research”, because it is not necessarily the same between all variants.
Your condescending BS is tiresome. I know, I’m just the asshole who only worries about myself.
Ignore the fact that the entire premise of my comment was how once you are vaccinated and you are “protected”, you still have to keep doing all economically destructive crap we’ve been forced to do the last 12 months anyways. It’s the exact opposite of “me only”. The motivation to run out and get “jabbed” as quickly as possible is for the warm fuzzies of knowing you no longer have to be terrified of dying from a virus you were unlikely to die from anyways. For some with advanced age and/or medical conditions it’s very productive; there are plenty like our own Shinobi who have been bunkered down for far too long, and being vaccinated will allow them a little more freedom. But for the majority, the effect is nil; their lives for 6 months after getting jabbed will be the same as it’s been the 6 months prior to being jabbed. So again, why should such individuals, who understand the risks and follow the rules and act prudently and know they’ll have to continue to do so regardless, feel any need to rush to be vaccinated?
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