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Home Front: Politix
Tensions over vaccine equity pit rural against urban America
2021-03-02
h/t Instapundit
[NYPost] Rita Fentress was worried she might get lost as she traveled down the unfamiliar forested, one-lane road in rural Tennessee in search of a coronavirus vaccine. Then the trees cleared and the Hickman County Agricultural Pavilion appeared.

The 74-year-old woman wasn’t eligible to be vaccinated in Nashville, where she lives, because there were so many health care workers to vaccinate there. But a neighbor told her the state’s rural counties had already moved to younger age groups and she found an appointment 60 miles away.

"I felt kind of guilty about it," she said. "I thought maybe I was taking it from someone else." But late that February day, she said there were still five openings for the next morning.
I got used to headlines that proclaim that "most Americans don't want to be vaccinated because ..."
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#21   Why does Whataburger taste better than In-N-Out Burger?

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Posted by: Blossoms May1091   2021-03-02 23:02  

#20  Nice try. In-N-Out is open for takeout and drive thru. I've never eaten a meal inside :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2021-03-02 20:42  

#19  Why does Whataburger taste better than In-N-Out Burger?

Whataburger is open.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-02 19:31  

#18  and San Diego gets F'd because Newsom lumped us in with LA County and Imperial County. Rebellion!
Posted by: Frank G   2021-03-02 18:58  

#17  Lone Star, Magnolia States remove mask mandate, open up.

Comon' Kansas, drop the cat lady and get in the game.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-02 17:13  

#16  Then again, looking at The Uncle Joe Education Goals, public school in blue areas may be worse.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-02 14:12  

#15  ^^^^ The New Nation of Feral Children
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Lord of the Flys North American Style - For Ever
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Platypus3384   2021-03-02 14:09  

#14  Kids here mingle after school anyways, and the only time they have their masks on is in school or school related, and they are off like a graduation cap ASAP.

And I'm not saying what works out here will work in the cities. I would propose that whose schools who have been open and doing the mask thing are in the habit of hygiene - washing hands before eating especially finger food, not sucking their fingers or picking their eyes, sent home if running a fever no ifs or ands, even taking their shower as soon as they get home instead of later that evening - I say its time to de-mask. Those teenagers are frustrated and they don't know how to deal with frustration and it is manifesting as stupid party tricks or worse, severe depression. The younger kids are still learning facial expressions as emotional tools and how to talk by watching another's mouth and that education is being stunted.

Those kids who have been in house arrest for a year now, man I don't even know. How does a kid go from one year trapped at home, or longer, an entire year and counting being taught to hate their neighbor, to having to learn all the protocols - not being allowed in because you didn't know you had a fever, the constant hand washing and sanitizing until the skin starts to crack and bleed, being forced into plastic boxes, can't communicate in a meaningful way, Hall Karens doing a shark attack on anyone breaking mask discipline. Hell Week.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-02 14:01  

#13  the teenage secret "parties" have done some damage here (not so easy to control those ones), but everyone gets over their Covid/common cold/whatever it was....
Posted by: 746   2021-03-02 13:08  

#12  Rural enough to keep track of the towns which didn't do masks even in school. Schools did just fine. Interesting control group, seems that when the parents who sent their sick kids to school anyways weren't able to do so is a real consideration for their success, next would be parents paying a bit more attention to whether their kid is feeling well where before they might be a bit in a hurry and not notice.

I'm not saying people in those towns didn't get sick, or didn't test positive for a covid. I'm saying the rate was not any more noticeable than anywhere else, which one must consider that school was not a spreader node.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-02 12:48  

#11  That's it.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-02 12:22  

#10  "drive from the infected cities to urban areas", I think you mean "rural" areas.........just sayin'
Posted by: 746   2021-03-02 12:10  

#9  This is a super scary virus killing billions and I need my shot so I'm going to drive from the infected cities to urban areas where the virus isn't so I can spread my search out and hopefully get mine.

Its a bit arrogant. I mean, if these people believe that much, yet have no qualms about driving around potentially spreading their diseases around, what is that?

Anyways, I have not experienced any tension from the city folk. 9/10 times they take their mask off and relax like people do after a 3 hour flight full of turbulence and an interesting landing.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-02 11:47  

#8  I live in a rural town of 2700, china flu trending down heavily, not much vaccine around here but those who wanted it got it, for the most part
Posted by: 746   2021-03-02 11:45  

#7  Federal, state, local health authorities and medical centers have been expecting a vaccine for about a year now. They had a ton of time to get ready for this -- but somehow most of them didn't do it. Idiocracy is the rule now.
Posted by: Knuckles Fluper5134   2021-03-02 11:23  

#6  Leaked Pentagon Video – Flu Vaccine Use to Modify Human behaviour
Posted by: Otto Omaimp9049   2021-03-02 10:41  

#5  #1 my bro in law is a teacher GA and had a massive heart attack a few years back. His status as teacher was prioritized over the his medical history, pushing him forward in the line
Posted by: Beavis   2021-03-02 10:38  

#4  Neve(r). Branch Covidians are 4eve(r).
Posted by: Marilyn Tharong3763   2021-03-02 10:33  

#3  I predict in a few months they won't be able to give it away. The people scrambling now are frightened. But a lot of us are over this.
Posted by: Angstrom   2021-03-02 10:27  

#2  Not everybody can be first, lady.
Posted by: Clem   2021-03-02 06:59  

#1  When non working public school teachers were prioritized (to receive the vaccination) the general public understood the "fairness" of the distribution. I live rural and this is the first I've heard of "tension". Just a made up story by the NYP for suckers.
Posted by: Spoter B   2021-03-02 06:55  

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