DeSantis is bragging about his Covid vaccine distribution system

[Chainfire]

I live in a small, rural, county. 45,000 people. Our county is being allocated 200 doses a week. The math stinks!

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The vaccines that should really go to Floridians are being requested by

rich Canadians flying down there.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadian-snowbirds-chartering-private-jets-to-fly-south-for-faster-covid-19-vaccine-access-1.5257752

I suppose it's akin to Americans going to Canada for lower-priced pharmaceuticals.

[lark]

2. Death Sentence is a lying murderous hypocrite.

Seniors are waiting in line for 8 hours, unable to go to the bathroom, in the cold and still not getting their shots. This system absolutely stinks and DS is killing us on purpose.

[rzemanfl]

3. You cannot even make an appointment in Pinellas County, the most densely populated

of Florida's counties.

[onethatcares]

7. was wondering about that

in Pinellas myself and figured the vaccines are being scheduled by the same company that screwed up the toll road pay plan, the unemployment insurance plan, and now this.

deathsentence has been just about the worst thing for floriduh, along with littlemarco and pricksnott.

[rzemanfl]

9. I checked the Pinellas Health Department web page last night and that's what it said.

Florida hasn't been the same since Lawton Chiles died.

[Chainfire]

4. DeSantis waited until the vaccine was ready

and pulled a distribution solution out of his ass. It is a crime how poorly this situation is. When we contacted our doctor about how could we, (both near 70) get the vaccine, the answer was, "I don't know."


DeSantis is proving his Republican credentials to be a future president; denial, ruthlessness, ignorance, greed and hate. He probably sees it as the most likely people to die from the disease are the poor, so what is the downside?

[Native]

5. So are you thinking you'll get yours in year three or year four?

In our county on the west coast of Fl, the pharmacies, the hospitals and even the grocery stores are all set up to distribute the vaccine, but like you, we can't get an appointment because there's no vaccine.

[Chainfire]

6. What I am hoping is that Biden does what is necessary to speed up the process

I do not think that the paltry distribution, as it now exists, will stay in place once we get rid of "warp speed" and come up with a real plan. I am really hoping to have had both doses sometime in the next few months. Every time I go buy groceries I feel like a soldier going into battle with the maskless armies. My wife is diabetic. If I get it, I will bring it home and more likely than not kill my life partner.

Where I live, there is no grocery deliver, no curbside pickup. In fact, we live in the definition of a "food desert." If you want to eat you have to enter the battle zone where even the employees do not mask up.....In fact, the customers do better than the store workers. I have complained until my face was blue, to no avail. Winn-Dixie just does not enforce mask discipline. We can credit DeSantis with that situation. Our county has a mask ordinance, but DeSantis refuses to allow them any enforcement measures.

[Native]

12. Oh, definitely! I was being sarcastic; I'm confident that Biden will get the ball rolling...

I really feel for you. I can't imagine having to experience the shopping hell you're having to deal with. Even though most people wear masks here, we have the maskless brigade that goes around sneaking up behind shoppers, reaching in front of them pretending to need something and then an inch away from your face saying, "Oh excuse me dear...ha, ha, ha." I personally experienced that in one trip from 2 people, and I've spoken to other residents in our community who have seen it and experienced it - a lot of the MAGAs here say it's "a thing." Our county doesn't even have a mask ordinance! We're close to Tampa and mostly surrounded by counties with mask mandates, but our commissioners will die before doing anything like that. And now all 67 counties are in the official, red, danger zone. They are now saying that even a robust vaccination delivery system won't contain it because the spread is so evenly throughout the state, and the experts are imploring DeathSantis to put restrictions in place, but he won't have it. And to make matters worse, half of all the cases in the country of the new, more infectious strain are here in good ol' Floriduh. If we make it out alive, it will be a miracle.

[LibfromtheNorth]

8. I'm very embarrased to say this..

but I know a lot of rich Canadians who are flying down there to get shots, ahead of Florida residents.

That's not fair.

[rzemanfl]

10. I've seen that. I thought the border was closed. n/t

[tavernier]

11. They gave us a number to text to receive notification

of vaccines in our area, but all we ever get are political bragging from DeSantis texts.