Governor rolls out vaccine plan

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by MidValleyDad

How wre the trips down to Urbana in 'Eastern Maryland '?

There is no "Eastern Maryland" only "downstate."

They were OK. It is a familiar route; my in-laws live in Urbana. They are both fully vaccinated so we were able to visit them before hand. We hit some Holy Thursday traffic on the way home, but finding my way from the Myersville exit to Rt. 40 was just like old times!

[MidValleyDad]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

There is no "Eastern Maryland" only "downstate."

They were OK. It is a familiar route; my in-laws live in Urbana. They are both fully vaccinated so we were able to visit them before hand. We hit some Holy Thursday traffic on the way home, but finding my way from the Myersville exit to Rt. 40 was just like old times!

You are talking my neck of the woods there. Coming home from relatives near Pittsburgh we get off at Myersville and start looking for the big blue watertower at Middletown!

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by MidValleyDad

You are talking my neck of the woods there. Coming home from relatives near Pittsburgh we get off at Myersville and start looking for the big blue watertower at Middletown!

I went the other way, through Myersville and then (somehow) remembered to go down, not through, the subdivision at the end of town to find Rt. 40 west. Middletown is a pretty place, but Rt. 40 alt. isn't my favorite road.

[G1..]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

There is no "Eastern Maryland" only "downstate."

They were OK. It is a familiar route; my in-laws live in Urbana. They are both fully vaccinated so we were able to visit them before hand. We hit some Holy Thursday traffic on the way home, but finding my way from the Myersville exit to Rt. 40 was just like old times!

So no Eastern Shore?

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by G1..

So no Eastern Shore?

"Eastern Shore" is a known term up here. "Eastern Maryland" as the region that is not "Western Maryland" doesn't exist in the local lexicon. Everything east of Sideling Hill, including Hagerstown, is "downstate" to us.

Technically the Eastern Shore is "down state" too, but outside of the (and I quote an ex-coworker) Baltimore-Washington-Hagerstown area.

[The Very Man Himself]

Glad (for now) that I got the Moderna vax. Emergent Bio, got a lot of public money under the previous admin.

https://www.axios.com/vaccines-fda-b...826c14e74.html

[The Very Man Himself]

Get dem peeps vaxxed.........
MM.....

Unvaccinated Marylanders account for nearly all of the state’s recent coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths, Health Secretary Dennis R. Schrader told lawmakers on Monday.

The state’s overall coronavirus picture is significantly improved in recent months, with deaths, hospitalizations and case-counts plummeting, thanks largely to Maryland’s robust vaccination efforts, officials said.

But Schrader told the state Senate’s Vaccination Workgroup that since May 10, unvaccinated people account for 97% of the COVID-19 caseload, 89% of the hospitalizations and 89% of the deaths.

“There are approximately 1.4 million Marylanders [age] 12 and older who are still unvaccinated and remain in serious risk of contracting and being hospitalized by COVID-19,” he told the panel.

Health department staff are poring through survey data to determine why vaccine hesitancy remains a problem.

Around the U.S., health experts continue to track a red-blue divide in vaccination rates, with states that former President Trump carried lagging behind those won by President Biden. The same appears true for counties in Maryland, according to an analysis of state health data.

[The Very Man Himself]

Keep the masks on..........maybe take a pass on the Olympics......

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