Governor rolls out vaccine plan (public schools, casino, live in)

[DaveinMtAiry]

Originally Posted by Veniceman

Im not disagreeing entirely with you. I'm just saying IMO the numbers of seniors wanting the vaccine are very higher especially in my area.. Sarasota county started a registry yesterday. 50,000 people signed up within the first hour and that number was climbing by 1500 per minute. . I can't vouch for the rest of the state. I'm sure there are people somewhere in this state that want nothing to do with this vaccne but in my area they are in the vast minority.

As I said there will be huge demand no doubt, but there is no way 95% of Florida seniors want it. But this demand is everywhere, which is a good thing, I'm glad to hear people are slowly coming to their senses. We all want this to go away and vaccinations are the way to make this happen.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry

As I said there will be huge demand no doubt, but there is no way 95% of Florida seniors want it. But this demand is everywhere, which is a good thing, I'm glad to hear people are slowly coming to their senses. We all want this to go away and vaccinations are the way to make this happen.

I sure hope so, but am not sure it will happen. I am disappointed and frustrated with the anti-vax movement, but often wonder if society's emphasis on the flu shot (the least effective vaccine) hasn't damaged the reputation of all the vaccines that are 90% effective and have more or less eliminated deadly diseases from all but vax resistant clusters.

I think if people today REALLY knew what illness such as Measles and Mumps are like, they would have a much different opinion. Measles ain't just those red spots you see in old Bugs Bunny cartoons, it is a moderate to severe respiratory infection with true airborne spread, a huge R value, and kills about 1 out of every 500 kids who catch it.

[Veniceman]

Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry

As I said there will be huge demand no doubt, but there is no way 95% of Florida seniors want it. But this demand is everywhere, which is a good thing, I'm glad to hear people are slowly coming to their senses. We all want this to go away and vaccinations are the way to make this happen.

Ok. My point in posting in the Maryland forum was because someone had recommended that Marylanders could go to Florida to get the vaccine. I'm saying that its darn hard to get it here. It's a moot point now because our governor changed the policy to exclude visitors from getting it here.

[North Beach Person]

Back to Maryland.

The Governor may have a "plan" but several of the individual Counties are lessons in cluster****ery. From not being able to figure out the categories to requiring XX number of people to receive the vaccine while only having XX minus thousands of doses available to having infection rates jumping all over the place.

[MidValleyDad]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Back to Maryland.

The Governor may have a "plan" but several of the individual Counties are lessons in cluster****ery. From not being able to figure out the categories to requiring XX number of people to receive the vaccine while only having XX minus thousands of doses available to having infection rates jumping all over the place.

The big problem is lack of medicine. Although 65+ opens up on Monday our County has said they have no idea when they will begin making appointments for group 1c (65+). They want to finish the 75+ group first and say they currently have no idea when that will be based on the current availability.


All the announcement by Hogan did was build up false hopes. I believe he made it based on the Federal announcement that they were going to release the stockpile of 'second doses' that had been set aside. But hours later it came out that those doses had already been shipped out and there was no stockpile being released.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by MidValleyDad

The big problem is lack of medicine. Although 65+ opens up on Monday our County has said they have no idea when they will begin making appointments for group 1c (65+). They want to finish the 75+ group first and say they currently have no idea when that will be based on the current availability.


All the announcement by Hogan did was build up false hopes. I believe he made it based on the Federal announcement that they were going to release the stockpile of 'second doses' that had been set aside. But hours later it came out that those doses had already been shipped out and there was no stockpile being released.

And yet the school systems have pretty much been ordered to reopen March 1. This is in the midst of a vaccine shortage and infection rates of 13% (Calvert and Prince George's. I think Montgomery might be at 11%).

Oh, and it came out yesterday that half the vaccines administered in Prince George's went into Montgomery County arms.

[bufflove]

I don't understand why Hogan's announced 1B, 1C, and the return to in-person classes while ignoring a complete lack of doses to support any of it. Am I missing something? Is he just hoping to shift blame/responsibility to county level governments? "I don't know what's wrong, grandma, I told the counties they could vaccinate you! Better take it up with them!"

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by bufflove

I don't understand why Hogan's announced 1B, 1C, and the return to in-person classes while ignoring a complete lack of doses to support any of it. Am I missing something? Is he just hoping to shift blame/responsibility to county level governments? "I don't know what's wrong, grandma, I told the counties they could vaccinate you! Better take it up with them!"

It may be a county issue. My wife is in 1-B and has an appointment set up for next week.

[bufflove]

Originally Posted by westsideboy

It may be a county issue. My wife is in 1-B and has an appointment set up for next week.

The state's starting 1C in three days. Even the counties with few 1A residents are nowhere near through 1B. The state is just creating unnecessary confusion and false hope by moving faster than the reality on the ground, as far as I can tell.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by bufflove

The state's starting 1C in three days. Even the counties with few 1A residents are nowhere near through 1B. The state is just creating unnecessary confusion and false hope by moving faster than the reality on the ground, as far as I can tell.

And Steny just a few minutes ago sent out a press release telling people to get the vaccinations in their County of residence while some of them have the school systems, health care workers and first responders getting them where they work.