Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

More than half don't want it, the highest percentage being 18-24-year-olds. 64 percent polled believe the virus was created as a biological weapon.

Whatever.

 

My wife and I have talked about kids dying in high school. I was there late 60s, her early 70s. Kids died, we just didn't know about it. I mean, we had 3,000 kids in three grades. If it was a close friend, you knew, but if it was just somebody in school, you didn't. Sometimes we found out later, but it wasn't publicized.

A decade ago, when my daughter was in high school, three kids died one school year. Everybody knew about it. One was killed in a car crash, one had cancer, one collapsed during spring football practice from an undiagnosed heart condition. I was working at the paper when the football player died. Newsside got wind of it, but were stonewalled by school officials on the name of the student. Somebody on newsside knew my daughter went to that school. They came to me (it's always disconcerting when somebody from news ventures into the sports department). They told me a football player died and could I find out his name. I had it in 5 minutes. I texted my daughter, she texted a friend, got the name and texted it back to me. I told the reporter. Administrators are so afraid to step on any toes. The whole school knew in less than a half hour.

It wasn't a death, but there was a similar situation when the story broke that Kobe Bryant was dating a high school student from Huntington Beach, took her to the prom. The editors knew, but couldn't get the name from the school. They were afraid of of getting it wrong. I just laughed at one editor. Here's what you do -- at 3 p.m., go to the fast-food place that is closest to the school. It will be filled with students. Just start asking: Who did Kobe Bryant take to the prom? Everyone will know and they'll be happy a reporter was seeking info from them.

 

Cool. Let 'em wait for their first choice. And die. Or shut down. Or both.

 

I tried getting an appt for the vaccine and it was extremely hard, then found some local health website and registered, after some waiting for several days, got an appointment. Very anxious given the uncertainty.

 

Getting my mom signed up was a pain in the ass also. Ended up having to go through Walgreens because Sacramento County's government site was shit. And even then, it took me a week of going through CVS, Rite Aid and Safeway several times a day before I finally got lucky. I know the zipcodes around where my mom lives better than I know my own local zipcodes now. Meanwhile, my wife went through Santa Clara County's site and I went through the state site and found it to be a thousand times easier. It just stinks that it can't be a uniform distribution network or at least everyone having to meet similar standards for how to navigate everything.

 

We had a federal government which had no interest solving the situation for nine months. Having the states take the lead on vaccinations is the end result of that. No one was waiting around for the feds to get their act together. As a result the process is far from universal, and universal probably is what we needed. Thanks, Trump.

 

The Joe Rogan effect?

 

Roganov.
Roganovich.
Rogansky.

Whatever their version is.

 

If you have a clinic associated with an Indian tribe in your area, look into getting vaccinated there. We got our first shot in an Iowa tribe-affiliated family in a small city 45 miles from home. At that time, they were taking folks with tribal cards or older than 55. They and other tribes in Oklahoma have since opened to any state resident 18 or older.

About 25 percent of the adults in Oklahoma have received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine. That’s due to the tribes, which seem to have ample supplies.