Arianna Grainey, a freelance photojournalist in Phoenix, AZ, deleted this tweet where she complained about having to wait one hour and forty minutes in line to get her Covid-19 vaccine:
Why’d you delete? pic.twitter.com/xNGRgtlYtP
— Dr. Ruiseñor (@realJWN) January 1, 2021
WTF is wrong with these people?
A journo was deemed “essential” and got a COVID shot and the entire time complained about waiting in line for it.
It’s seriously a thread of her complaining. https://t.co/eorybIbeRf
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) January 1, 2021
And why even get in this line in the first place?
If you’re not a healthcare worker and you’re a healthy under 30 American, I’ve got strong opinions about you stepping in line before grandma.
— Josh Holmes (@HolmesJosh) January 1, 2021
On the other hand, health care workers are not exactly beating down the door to get their shot:
Roughly 20% to 40% of the L.A. County’s front-line workers who were offered the vaccine declined to get the shot.
So many in Riverside County refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses https://t.co/yDtTh6ccq2
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 31, 2020
But this really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone paying attention to vaccine skepticism in the U.S. over the past 20 years or so:
Vaccine doubts swirling among healthcare workers is a surprise to researchers who assumed hospital staff would be among those most in tune with the scientific data behind the vaccines
Epidemiologists say the public health implications could be disastroushttps://t.co/yDtTh6ccq2
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 31, 2020
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Anyway, it really is time to rethink how we’re distributing it. Maybe we should follow what Israel is doing?
Stop strategizing and start implementing Israel's "hey pizza guy" approach NOW. https://t.co/UYvVkjMMtp
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) January 1, 2021
Here’s what that’s referring to:
Here is a prime example from today to Israel "organized chaos". End of the day in a vaccine center. A few doses left and will expire. Nurses go out, spot a pizza delivery guy, call him "pizza guy wanna vaccine?", jab, and another person has spike mRNA!https://t.co/cBkPqPz46W
— Yaniv Erlich (@erlichya) December 31, 2020
And how come Fauci and Co. aren’t promoting this?
Look y’all, pharmacist here, the moderna vaccine has 10 shots, they have to be given within 6 hrs. Because they’re limited, they’re by appt. If someone misses an appt then we have to either throw away the excess or give it to someone. Call your pharmacist & ask to be a will call
— Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) January 1, 2021
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