I read and article today about how every state in the union is having technical glitches with trying to distribute vaccine. Systems crashing, people not trained, using software not intended to be used for scheduling vaccination appointments, no software at all, etc
In September before congress, Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield cited “years of under investment” congress was to busy. After all it had an election to focus on, couldn’t let the mean old buggy man win again. Besides that there was not a prayer that a vaccine would be ready by December, it would take mighty Joe to get that one done. So they waited until December to do something, after people were already being vaccinated.
Did anyone at the state level wonder what they would do to vaccinate everyone in their state? In Florida we have 22.7 million people. In Pasco county we have 583.6 thousand people. Did any one at the state level or the county level ask themselves how we going get a needle into that many people.
In December the county tried to use a ticketing website to schedule appointments. I tried that five times, they would open a day, morning and afternoon. I was hitting the bottom on the second after it opened, and only once did I get in the que, only to be told all appointment full about five seconds later. Screw that. Now mind you they were scheduling 500 shots a day, in one location, now that is a small bite of a big pie. Oh and by the way the health department was closed for three day for Christmas, and two for New Years, Oh my god we got to get these people vaccinated!
Next apparently the state started to step in with new vaccination sites and a different scheduling system. This system was interesting. You choose a vaccination site, go through three pages of questions, before they would tell you sorry no appointments are available. Did that about five times, then screw you.
Two days ago a new site, maybe we are making progress. You put all you information in, and theoretically they contact you when an appointment is available. We will see?????
Bureaucrats are bureaucrats, beyond how to I get my next pay grade, they don’t think much. Heaven forbid that some place along about April someone would look at the ceiling and ask how are we going to get X number of needles in X number of people. I know, I know got to hurry to lunch.