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King Beauregard 👂's avatar

I have no practical use for it. It would doubtless be an exercise in buyer's remorse.

The sort of person who might have use for it, I imagine, would be a contractor of some kind, who had need of a table saw to take to job sites. But that's so totally not me.

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Accelerated manufacturing is great. Without adequate supply of vaccines, we're not going to get this done. But that's not all there is to it. America's complete lack of a healthcare system is glaring so brightly it's getting very hard to ignore.

How are all these vaccines going to get into people's arms? We don't know. There's no system.

My wife, as an elementary special ed assistant, has gotten dose 1 of the Pfizer. She has no idea when she'll get does 2. She doesn't even know how she'll find out. Minnesota has been pretty good at this, and has prioritized vaccinating teachers and school staff as a step to reopening schools, but has no functional or coherent system to deliver vaccines. My wife was contacted in haphazard and contradictory fashion by two private corporations which have minimal online presence and no clear relationship to anything; and by her employer.

And my wife, as a teacher and in Minnesota, is among the lucky ones.

I have no idea when or from whom I'll get a vaccine. If I get one by Labor Day I'll call it lucky.

Keeping the finance sector in firm control of healthcare is very beneficial to the billionaire donor class. I've been able to get some scraps out of it by coordinating expensive meetings and events for some of the corporate grifters involved. But when it comes to delivering healthcare, it's a shambolic disaster. It's killing people, and our overall economy.

This is getting harder and harder to deny or ignore.

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