AnonymousBy Karen Luckett
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been extremely disappointing and perplexing in Santa Barbara. I reviewed the Santa Barbara County vaccine criteria tiers, but could not figure out where I am in the tiers, so I emailed the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department. They just blew me off telling me to look at the tiers. I emailed them back telling them I had reviewed the tiers before I emailed them the first time. They responded by saying they would forward my email to someone else because the person emailing did not have an answer for me.
It has been over two weeks and I have not been contacted. This is bureaucratic incompetence. I have since emailed Governor Newsom, Dr. Ghaly, and Supervisor Gregg Hart without a response.
I am a medical professional, over 65 years old, in private practice, and unaffiliated with any clinic or hospital. I see patients in their homes.
Why cant anyone explain to me what tier I’m in and how I will know when it is my turn or anyone’s turn for the vaccine? I don’t want the vaccines to spoil before they get to needed health professionals like me or anyone else in need.
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SacJon, none, but they will start dropping like flies at any time. This is what the internet wackos say. Disbelieve it at your own risk.
Ha, VOR we can agree here. 100%. Zero faith in our elected officials to do anything right.
@1:12 stop spreading lies. COVID is not the flu. They are not even related. They are entirely different viruses. You literally believe the numbers are faked? So a mass collusion of millions of healthcare workers is going on? Utterly ridiculous.
Total incompetence at every level. There was plenty of time to prepare for this. Everyone from the federal government (who could have been securing raw materials like glass, metal, etc. needed for the vaccine packaging and delivery systems) to the local level have totally failed us. I am not even remotely surprised. What surprises me is that anyone believed we’d be good at this.
1:12 – tell us, exactly, why are they faking the numbers? What is the benefit they receive from telling the public to be concerned about a deadly global pandemic? Who/what is benefiting from this?
I have asked this question over and over from Q supporters and other science/medical-deniers and have yet to get an answer. WHY would anyone force a lockdown/fake numbers? What do they gain?
Wow. It could have been me that wrote what Karen wrote. Almost exactly the same experiences.
I just got off the phone with SB Public Health. For the fourth time. I finally got a response to my two week old email with an email that acknowledged my “health practitioner seeing patients” eligibility and included a link to “register for an appointment.” Except the link doesn’t work. Waiting for a call back. Not holding my breath.
As of yesterday, of the 17,575 delivered doses of vaccine two weeks ago, a little over 12,000 doses remain in the freezer. That’s 12,000 people who remain at risk of getting sick and dying because of the incompetency of our health department.
1:12 – “Do your research” A youtube link with no valid data and unknown people spewing conspiracy theory. The old “flu argument.” Go away.
The amount of vaccine disinformation in Edhat comments is dangerous. Perhaps it is time for Edhat to only allow comments when people are using their full name and location like NextDoor.com does. Names and addresses are verified before the person is allowed to comment. This will help with other ridiculousness too. Let’s here from the moderators about why this is a bad idea.
Hey Hugh, great idea, but Nextdoor has almost just as many asinine comments as here. Some people are so proud of their conspiracy theories, ignorance and racism, that they happily sign they’re names. I’ve seen it get ugly on there.
I do think it’s worse on Edhat and potentially liable if a litigious person gets sick or dies. We don’t know if people commenting here are in Goleta or Moscow. Let’s hold people accountable by posting their real names.
I’m not an anti-vaxxer but I’d like to point out the same people that keep talking about the horrific long-term effects of covid, which has only been around 10 months, are so sure of the safety of a vaccine that’s barely a month old and uses a new type of vaccine technology that hasn’t been used before (successfully at least).
Name a fallacy, and you will propmote it!
Vaccine distribution should have been privatized so that competent people with performance incentives would get things done. Same can be said for the majority of services provided by the government. Dems will do whatever it takes to stop vaccine distribution, delay opening up the economy, and keep in person learning happening. They want to crush peoples motivation and get everyone reliant of big gov’t handouts. Generaltree is a prime example.
The federal pandemic response has been truly pathetic and confusing. Local government lacks the funding, infrastructure, and expertise to do what the Feds should be doing. Pence is in charge of the task force, Jared Kushner was supposed to do something related to testing I think. Is Fauci still officially part of the administration? Testing is bad because it makes us LOOK bad as a country? And ultimately it’s left to the states? Who leave it to counties? And it was all supposed to be over in two weeks? Or by Easter? Oh wait it’s going away, just keep waiting. Going into this Cat-5 hurricane of stupidity people refer to as a presidential administration, I knew Trump would hit some crisis and completely fall apart. Every president faces difficulties that define them, and this one will be defined by watching TV, tweeting and golfing while his country faced disaster and he had the ability to lead and take initiative. Profoundly pathetic.
“bureaucratic incompetence” is the running theme of Covid-19.
I just came from a DR’s appt. in Solvang and the Doc and I were having the same conversation.
He doesn’t know when he will get one either,or if he’s to young still’ or the type of practice makes him less of a risk than other Doc’s etc.
Total cluster frag.
Can’t trust our local ,state, or the world’s governments for that matter.
At least change the name from Op Warp Speed to Op Warped or something more appropriate. Who would have thought a Trump admin program would fail to meet its goals? I’m shocked.
Yes, it’s amazing we have a vaccine. And a crisis we can’t produce it fast enough or even deliver the stock we do have efficiently and quickly. It is not citizens jobs to volunteer to carry this out. I highly doubt there are even opportunities to do this. I can envision people like retired nurses being able to volunteer, but I don’t think there is a place for Joe Public to get involved, nor do we want that. We pay our taxes to the local, state, and federal government and it is their duty to uphold their end of the bargain by providing competent services in times of crisis like this. Do not push this burden onto the general public.