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Old 02-05-2021, 02:11 PM
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As I was trying to schedule the vaccine one of the Publix sites, I wondered where many of the counties were located in case we didn't get Marion County (which we didn't). Oddly, the counties are along both coastlines (St. Augustine down to Miami); Panhandle, and Clearwater to Ft. Myer. Obviously these are major cities located in these counties; however, it occurred to me that these are major counties with major tourism emphasis. When Governor DeSantis stated that the vaccines were targeted toward health care workers and those 65 & over, he obviously didn't allocate any to Sumter County. Yes, he did allocate for Marion county, but it's a very large county with high positivity. It made sense for an interior county. If there are other obvious reasons that more wasn't allocated to a major retirement community, please share. Still relatively new to TV, so trying to understand the politics.