Hurry Up Then Wait to Get Your COVID Vaccination
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:January 30, 2021
- Post category:Medicine / Pandemics
- Post comments:1 Comment
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
As I pointed out in the “Long Pole in the Tent” series of posts, logistics was always going to be the most difficult portion of the program. It was always intended that the local details be left to the states, because the central government can never have the detailed knowledge that state and local governments have. Some states have done remarkably well, such as West Virginia, South and North Dakota. West Virginia turned the job over to its National Guard, which maintained constant communication with the US Army, which ran logistics at the national level. South Dakota divided the state into three equal-population parts and awarded one part each to the three leading medical care provider companies with instructions to go shoot.
Other states did not serve their citizens well. We have a robust program in Tennessee, and ensure no doses are wasted with a stand-by list of people who can reach a vaccination site in 15 minutes. Other states, noticeably New York and New Jersey, have had to destroy vaccines.