Continue reading Durkan Budget Would Gut JumpStart Spending Plan, Increase Funding for Encampment Response → Encampment Sweeps Erica C. For now, though, here are a few initial notes on the plan, which reflects better-than-expected revenues and incorporates a lot of ongoing federal funding for COVID-19 relief. In the coming weeks, the proposal will be debated, analyzed, and rewritten by the Seattle City Council (the addition of 35 net new police officers is an obvious target for their red pens), and PubliCola will be covering every aspect of those upcoming discussions.
27, outlining the proposal at a very high level in a six-minute speech from North Seattle College. Mayor Jenny Durkan released the final budget of her term yesterday, Sept. (This article originally appeared on PubliCola and has been reprinted with permission.) Continue reading OPINION: Regardless of Our Vaccination Status, We’re All Scared → compassion COVID-19 Pandemic COVID-19 Vaccination Featured Julie Pham Opinion Unvaccinated Vaccinated Majority Voices It has become socially acceptable among the vaccinated to disparage the unvaccinated. I’ve heard many vaccinated people relish exchanging stories of pandemic repentance, when someone expresses remorse for remaining unvaccinated from their COVID-19 deathbed.
Once vaccinations were widely available, I too read the news of a COVID-19 death looking to see if the deceased was vaccinated or not as a way to calibrate my compassion. I admit to feeling schadenfreude when President Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 last year. I share many of the views of the vaccinated. They probably even let you assume that they are vaccinated because they don’t want to be labeled as “uneducated,” “selfish,” or a “right-wing conspiracist.”īecause I’m part of the majority, I’ve been privy to many conversations in which generous and loving vaccinated people casually talk about the “stupid” unvaccinated as “deserving” of sickness or “asking” for death. With near certainty, you personally know adults in King County who are choosing not to get vaccinated. Or they want to avoid social ostracization.
Many don’t voluntarily share their status because they don’t want to have to defend their choices. They quietly refrain from crowds to reduce risk to themselves and others. I have close ties to some in the minority. While ardent “anti-vaxxers” who defy COVID-19 protocols are the most vocal of this minority group, they don’t represent everyone who is unvaccinated. The chances of you knowing someone who isn’t fully vaccinated in the most populous age groups is over 1 in 5. I’m asking us in the vaccinated majority to recognize we have more in common with the unvaccinated minority than we realize. Before I begin, I want to be clear: I am not arguing for or against vaccinations. In King County, by now, nearly 85% of people aged 20–69 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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