Question for Governor Parson and the Jackson County Health Department

 

WHY ARE WE STILL IN PHASE 1B, TIER 1 IN JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI, for only first responders, emergency services & public health infrastructure? 

We've been there for WEEKS. 

Are we EVER going to get the vaccine????

In fairness, an answer today, this morning, from the Jackson County Health Department:

Thanks for your email. For the last several weeks the state has not sent us vaccines, so we have not been able to offer appointment times for 1^st doses in your tier. We hope to be able to offer appointments again in the next few weeks. In the meantime if you have a primary care provider you can reach out to them and the hospital they are affiliated with. They may be able to get you an appointment at the hospital before we have times available. You can also reach out to the State of Missouri Vaccine Navigators at 1-877-435-8411 or https://covidvaccine.mo.gov/navigator to get more information on various organizations receiving vaccine.

So we wait. We continue to wait. And hope.

Things Could Be Worse

 Yes, however bad your situation is, think of this. It could be worse. You could be Rudy Giuliani.

"Only the best people..." Right Mr. President?

#Throwthebumout 

A Deepset Conservative on this President

 Yes sir and ma'am, a deepset conservative, none other than Bill Kristol, on this Republican Party President

And for proof? Look no farther.

Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered months ago to sell the U.S. more vaccine doses

Trump's pandemic blindness and election denial darken America's desperate winter

I can hardly believe what I read about this man sometimes.

Kansas City COViD Roundup

 Here you go, Kansas City! A COVID roundup. First up, Torey Southwick advises us!

With KC beds sparse, rural hospitals in Kansas, Missouri face new COVID ‘tidal wave’

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum temporarily closes after staff test positive for COVID-19

A lost generation? Educators and students worry online classes leave too many behind

KC metro sees dip in new coronavirus cases as testing slows over Thanksgiving holiday

Meanwhile, this, nationally.

16 States Log Record-High Average COVID-19 Cases Since Thanksgiving

Insane.

Here's a statewide assessment.

Examining COVID-19 Cases In Hard-Hit Wisconsin, Missouri 

The region.

‘We’re drowning’: COVID cases flood hospitals in America’s heartland

And then, hope.

Covid: First Americans 'could get vaccine in December

Be careful out there, folks. Stay safe. Mask up, for sure.

It's Not the "Chinese Virus"

This isn't the "Chinese Virus." Let's be clear on this.Don't let anyone get away with calling it that. 

Here in America, this is the Donald Trump Virus. It's the Republican Party Virus, let there be no doubt.  See for yourself.

Timeline: Trump administration's response to coronavirus

This President first denied it, and for months, then called it a "Democratic Hoax." Then he and all the Republican Party Governors refused to wear or require masks be worn for it and now this.

The Trump Administration Shut a Vaccine Safety Office Last Year: What is the Plan Now?

Check that out:

As the first coronavirus vaccines arrive in the coming year, government researchers will face a monumental challenge: monitoring the health of hundreds of millions of Americans to ensure the vaccines don’t cause harm.

Purely by chance, thousands of vaccinated people will have heart attacks, strokes and other illnesses shortly after the injections. Sorting out whether the vaccines had anything to do with their ailments will be a thorny problem, requiring a vast, coordinated effort by state and federal agencies, hospitals, drug makers and insurers to discern patterns in a flood of data. Findings will need to be clearly communicated to a distrustful public swamped with disinformation.

For now, Operation Warp Speed, created by the Trump administration to spearhead development of coronavirus vaccines and treatments, is focused on getting vaccines through clinical trials in record time and manufacturing them quickly.

The next job will be to monitor the safety of vaccines once they’re in widespread use. But the administration last year quietly disbanded the office with the expertise for exactly this job, merging it into an office focused on infectious diseases. Its elimination has left that long-term safety effort for coronavirus vaccines fragmented among federal agencies, with no central leadership, experts say.

As with so many things from this President and his presidency and administration in the last 3-1/2 years, I can hardly believe what I'm reading. By all means, read this entire article. There is a great deal more information in it than I can or will put here but it's just stunning, at least, to see what this President and his administration did in the midst of the worst, most killing international pandemic in the last more than 100 years.

That he and they could, would or did close the agency responsible for overseeing vaccines in this year, 2019, when we need it most of all is just overwhelming.

So thanks, Mr. President. Again, thanks.

And thanks, Republicans. This is now and will be forever the Republican Party Virus.

Vote, folks. And vote blue. #BlueWave2020

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