Rant #2,570: Wishin' and Hopin'

So the House has voted to invoke the 25th amendment to removed President Trump from office in the wake of last week’s horrible violence at the Capitol.
 
Now the ball is in Vice President Mike Pence’s court, and the question is “Will he or won’t he?”
 
I don’t think he will, and the impeachment will go on.
 
It is all a bit of posturing by legislators at this point, to show their constituents that they want Trump out … it will stand out as a bullet point on their resumes once they come up for re-election.
 
And through it all, Brooklyn Nets basketball star Kyrie Irving stays away from the team he signed a multi-million-dollar contract with, stays away for undetermined reasons that were thought to be the fact that since he is such a sensitive individual, he was taken aback by what happened in Washington last week and was so disturbed that he could not play another game until he got his head straight.
 
Disturbed yes, but what was he actually so disturbed about?
 
Video has surfaced, that admittedly still has to be verified as being current, that he attended his sister’s birthday party and participated in mask-less and COVID-19 protocol fun at the gathering, which clearly violates NBA protocol in this coronavirus-infected world we live in.
 
If it is found that the video is current, you just know that his time away from the team will be extended by a suspension by a league that is teetering on pushing pause on their season because of so many COVOD-19 cases in its ranks.
 
And all the while, my 89-year-old mother cannot get an appointment to get a coronavirus shot.
 
I have checked all over the map of Long Island, and I cannot get her on the list of any place that is giving the shots.
 
I would prefer to do this on Long Island, because not only that is where we live, but remember, two doses are need here, not just one, and heaven forbid there is a problem, I would prefer the dispensing facility is local.
 
But funny, my aunt who lives right smack dab in Manhattan hasn’t had any luck in getting the shot either, nor has anyone else my mother knows, so I know it just isn’t my mom who cannot get the shot, it is millions of seniors who are in the same boat.
 
And with the government’s expansion of the program to include a few other groups, including 65 year olds, I wonder if her chances are even slighter now for her go get vaccinated.
 
This rollout was done in such a poor fashion, but I am sure that Governor Cuomo’s 90-something mom has received her shot and is awaiting shot number two.
 
That being said, I will try again, and try again, and try again, until I can get my mother signed up someplace to get her shot.
 
Of course, Cuomo and other legislators blame the federal government, as they have since day one of this pandemic, for their problems, and they are doing it again, stating that they want to vaccinate everyone, but they do not have enough serum to go around because the feds won’t release what they have.
 
But the state government’s management of who gets what and when has been completely faulty, done haphazardly without any regard to sanity.
 
And remember, the bulk of those who can get vaccinated is still to come …. If the current program is being used as sort of a trial run of the major rollout program, boy, are we in trouble!
 
I liken this to the problems that so many people had with enrolling for unemployment when the pandemic truly hit and so many people lost their jobs.
 
Just a few months earlier, I myself ran into numerous problems in enrolling in the program, but I was a single voice crying out in the darkness.
 
But when millions joined me on the unemployment line, all you heard for weeks on end is that there was a problem with the various state sites.
 
Right now, we are talking about a segment of the population, but wait until the major part of the population can’t get their shots! It is bad enough now, but unless the logistics are worked out, you are going to have a firestorm of problems in the spring.
 
And our legislators want her immunity by the summer? If this type of nonsense continues, we won’t even be near herd immunity until sometime in 2022, which only means that millions more will suffer from this scourge until we get the ball rolling on the right course.
 
What a revolting development this is!
 
But I will soon try again to get my mother an appointment somewhere, somewhere over the rainbow, it seems, to get her inoculated.
 
But heck, even the vaulted phone line dedicated to this scourge that New York State put up is down, the Nassau County web site offering information is up and down like a rubber ball, and while our legislators all got their shots—including our younger legislators in their 20s and 30s—you have to wonder why an 89-year-old woman who desperately wants to help the cause and get her shot can’t get what she wants.
 
At this point in her life, she shouldn’t have to worry about such stuff, and there is blame to go all around … but it still does her no good.
 
So legislators, you can sharpen up your daggers against the president if you want, and Kyrie, you can continue to pout all you want, but in the meantime, my mother cannot get her coronavirus shot …
 
What’s more important?