I’m very sorry, and hope your husband recovers.
Its a shame Arizona’s vaccines are going to waste when there are other states that actually use them.
And countries, like India. And whole continents, like Africa.
Yep. Sadly, if Biden were to take the going-to-spoil vaccinations away from Arizona to give to those furners riots would happen. People are upset that illegal aliens are getting vaccinated and those are the folks who clean our toilets (well, our housekeeper is 'merican, but you get what I mean).
That does make me wonder if that might be exactly the type of conspiracy theory to spread, though. Maybe if people think Biden is going to take them away if they don’t use them, perhaps it would inspire them to get vaxxed to screw the libs and the foreigners/illegals.
Hmm, I’m sure my state is vaccinating anyone who shows up, “ID requested but not required”, with the intention of vaccinating undocumented immigrants. As you say, they clean our toilets, serve us food, and interact with citizens in many ways. I’m hopeful that as many of our residents as possible get vaccinated, whatever their legal status. That’s enlightened self interest on my part.
(I also hope the US releases more vaccine to the rest of the world. Not just because their lives matter, too. But again, my self interest: The more people who get vaccinated, the fewer will be growing exciting new variants.)
It’s just freakin’ common sense. I don’t get why anyone would deny basic public health to someone who handles their food, from growing and picking to cooking and serving. It would make no sense whatsoever to deny these people good health.
I guess some folks would be OK with forbidding their waiter from washing his hands after having a dump as well. Just so that they can feel better than the “underserving”. Stupid twits.
FWIW - When I signed up for my vaccine, I didn’t give any identifying information other than my name and date of birth, and no checked my ID at any point in the vaccine process.
We don’t want to take the chance that somewhere, someone will get something they aren’t entitled to, do we? Lots of dogs and lots of mangers out this way.
Totally different topic, but illegals are not entitled to prenatal care BUT as soon as that baby is born its a citizen and entitled to medical care to fix any defects caused by the lack of prenatal care. Dogs and mangers, dogs and mangers.
Dog in the manger for you younger folks who had to grow up with public education.
Let’s remember that it’s the Conservatives mainly who insist that a human being is a human being from the moment of conception and immediately entitled to all the rights and privileges thereto pertaining. Someone should point this out to them.
Ohhhh, such a tempting hijack but I’m trying to be good for a while.
Back to topic…ain’t none of us gonna be safe until all of us are safe also isn’t a theme song heard in Arizona often. The pandemic is over, COVID was never a thing, its just a bad flu, etc. etc.
What it will be annoying as an Arizonan, but fascinating as a historian, is how it turned out that many of the smarter Republicans insisted in conversations with opponents (even in the SDMB too) that Trump and other leaders were not saying that the corona virus was a hoax, they supported that by pointing out that Trump actually declared then that the hoax was about what the Democrats were saying about how ineffective Trump was dealing with the pandemic.
So, why the furshlugginer idea that the virus was/is a hoax remains among many Republicans?
The annoying and fascinating thing is that there was really double talk going on, some appeased many smart Republicans, but other sources of info (not much countered by the leaders of the Republicans) produced also a mess of misinformation that followers of Trump swallowed and used to then insist that covid was/is a hoax anyway. 
And now the smarter Republicans seem to never feel worried about how the misinformation (offered also by Trump himself too) was what made the situation worse, but they will continue to tell themselves that they should be quiet and not bother to correct what the misinformation media is doing to their peers and family members.
They’ll just put in *Except anchor babies, the same way they except rape and incest.
Oddly, the state and health providers made a good decision (in my opinion) when I went to get my booster shot. They asked which booster I preferred and I replied that I would like a two full dose of Moderna and use the J &J shot I had already received as my booster. They hem hawed about it, but once I showed them the official card which showed my former shot was many months ago they agreed. I just got the second shot today and so far no superpowers nor any side effects (other than being quite tired this afternoon).
More on topic, there was a pretty good line today with lots of youngsters getting their first shots but mostly boosters for the adults. There seemed to be little in the way of resistance to the vaccines (all three manufactures were available) but that was the point of the event. Since the goal of herd immunity is long gone, I was pleased to see so many responsible adults taking their own health (and that of their children) seriously. I guess seeing several hundred people line up for vaccines does not signal the end of hesitancy but it sure was nice to see!
It’s good to know that people in your area are bringing their kids in for their shots. The reports I’ve been reading have not been so hopeful in our area.
Currently, the state has less than 60 ICU beds available. Drive very carefully folks.
I will brag a little, it seems that Do Nothing Deucy is becoming a common term online. I never saw it before I started using it, so maybe I have influenced people.
All my friends have gotten their kids vaxxed. It seems to be fairly popular around here (the Northeast).
I wish more folks here were as sensible as folks out your way. Our death rate per thousand is in first place and the numbers are still rising.
One of the big Phoenix hospitals stopped requiring their staff to be vaccinated and schools without mask policies are getting a big chunk of the federal COVID relief money.
I’m selling everything but the cats (nobody would want those worthless beasts) and moving out of the state as soon as my husband dies from being stupid.
I want George!
Trust me, you don’t. Hubs carries his keys and car fob on a thingy on his belt loop. George has learned that if he wants hubs to get up and look out the window, hence vacating the desired chair, all he has to do is swat the car fob in the right place to make hubs’ car horn honk. Hubs gets up to go and look out the window and George curls up on the chair and looks all cute and smug.
We had to find another vet because the one we used for years and years was an anti-vaxer. Hubs and I spatted about if we should continue to use her services, but she stopped the discussion by dying of COVID. That made me sad because she was good to our cats AND she was preggy, but she made her choice.
She wouldn’t even give your cats their shots?