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Originally Posted by blueash
The Sumter Co Health Dept is tiny and fights to get nickels and dimes from the state. Of course we could have spent money via taxes to better fund the Dept in case there was an emergency, but we all know that most of what the Dept does is beneficial to the less affluent in our community while those better off will rarely need their services.
Until there is a disaster when everybody demands they have everything now, up to date to work on their latest iphone, with services available with no waiting and by golf cart if not closer. The Health Dept people have been working their butts off for months on this pandemic, but blast away at them. They're too damn busy to be reading your criticism, or likely your sent letter which should go in the circular file and not waste time being replied to. Yes, I know Dr. Zelnick who you simply call Zelnick. And I know a lot of the nurses and assistants who make up our county's small struggling underfunded and under appreciated Health Dept.
How about you not only write the County Commissioners and demand a funding increase, but as well as write your Florida legislators demanding the same thing.
As to the software issue and your insistence it should screen for "most vulnerable" people. Talk to your governor, don't blame the local health dept. The vaccines allocated to the general public via that sign up were after the higher risk groups had been allocated vaccine and now all persons 65 and older without regard to any other factors are next per DeSantis and contrary to what the CDC had proposed.
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Since you know Dr. Zelnick, perhaps you could ask him to explain why he permitted the Developer's cronies to hop to the front of the vaccination line.