San Francisco and what to do in it

I use OneMedical FWIW, via my UCSF coverage. All the staff I've seen have been solid, good experiences all around when it comes to specialist referrals from there. But that vaccine weirdness did bemuse. (Before anyone asks, my shots were also due to UCSF/DPH employment.)

Yeah I should say all the doctors and nurses I've interacted with at One Medical have been fine folks. It's just that getting caught doing something Bad is so at variance with their brand, I couldn't help but laugh.

WeSick was a friend's name for one of those app-based health networks ... but I think it was a newer one that basically sounded like WeWork but for health care

One Medical is just a medical group; my longtime primary care doctor moved there a while ago. It's pretty handy actually because you do get access to other docctors for telemedicine.

there are plenty of other telemedicine things, one of the biggest is GoodRX which purchased a company called HeyDoctor which is app based. I only know about this because I interviewed with them last week and they already passed on me so they can fuck off (not really, they seem fine, I actually recommended them to a friend whose doctor was going to charge her $400 for a telemedicine visit to refill a prescription)

"One Medical, which got caught helping folks (presumably rich techies) skip the line" tbc this was a 'C-level executive got his friends to jump the line' it wasn't like the company was facilitating this on a large scale (I don't think).

ah okay, good to know

https://missionlocal.org/2021/03/3-18-tracker/

At this rate SF would get to 70% vaccinated in about a month. Racing b117, but I feel cautiously optimistic.

My husband’s coworker drove down from Sonoma to get in line at 4.30am for those extra vaccines and had to wait 6 hrs. She and her husband were really sick for like 36 hrs afterwards. Hard to feel bad since I’m pretty sure those extra vaccine places are supposed to help the underprivileged get vaccinated.

I feel like I’ve managed to go a year without catching Covid so I’m not in a hurry to get the vaccine. I’ll wait till I’m called up by kaiser - I got an email that I qualify for a medical reason (I’m assuming it’s my BMI?) so I think it’ll probably be May.

xpost yeah it's starting to zip along pretty readily at this point.

Kaiser appears to have gotten more vaccine supply. I qualify as a health care worker & when I looked at scheduling today, they have lots of appointments.

yeah, afaik One Medical got hung out to dry for not aggressively policing the claims of people who successfully scheduled appointments...

...which Kaiser is basically doing rn, along with a number of clinics.

if you qualify, please make an appointment. more people vaccinated helps everyone.

everyone qualifies rn is the point. you have to sign an affidavit that you pinky swear you’re in a qualified group, but that’s it. entire rollout kinda a cluster rn.

if I eat enough burritos at lunch I can get my BMI within spitting distance of 30

they weren't really validating before either; my wife qualified because she works for the school district, we guess? it wasn't clear at all...but they let her sign up and at no point did anyone ever ask for any documentation.

which is why NPR going after One Medical for the same damn thing is so galling. net result: One Medical receives no more vaccine, we all lose.

everyone qualifies rn is the point. you have to sign an affidavit that you pinky swear you’re in a qualified group, but that’s it. entire rollout kinda a cluster rn.

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, March 18, 2021 6:50 PM (yesterday)

This is patently false and perhaps one of the worst things I've read on this thread (which is full of quite a bit of typical entitled SF/Bay Area bullshit).

According to the CDPH*, you are eligible to be vaccinated:

If you are 65+ years old

or work in:

Childcare
Education
Emergency services
Food and agriculture
Health care
Long-term care facilities
Public transit/airports and commercial airlines
Congregate (group) residential settings (shelters, jails, group homes)

Please don't skip your turn, even if you try to justify it with some lame excuse.

*https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/vaccine-high-risk-factsheet.aspx

My friend (SF native)'s uncle died last night of COVID. He had been hospitalized/ventilator-ed since valentine's day.

For the data-driven + empathy-challenged folks, his tick will show up on the graph tomorrow:

https://i.imgur.com/i3DB9Zi.png

That pretty much matches the email I got from Kaiser yesterday:

We’re now vaccinating people 16 to 64 whose medical conditions may put them at higher risk of complications due to COVID-19. Since we’re aware of each of our member’s medical history, we’re already reaching out to those who have these conditions to schedule a vaccine appointment.

We’re also vaccinating those who live in congregate (group) settings, people 65 and older, and people who work in:

Childcare
Education
Emergency services
Food and agriculture
Health care
Long-term care facilities
Public transit/airports and commercial airlines
Congregate (group) residential settings (shelters, jails, group homes)

I don't fit into any of these groups, I'll bide my time.

This is patently false and perhaps one of the worst things I've read on this thread (which is full of quite a bit of typical entitled SF/Bay Area bullshit).

Accurate or not, his message read to me as a complaint that the restrictions weren't strict enough to prevent line-jumping. I don't see anyone in this thread advocating line-jumping, am I wrong?

I'm sorry about your friend's uncle.

xp - got the same Kaiser email.

Ok I honestly didn't read any sarcasm in that post... I offer a sincere apology to rogermexico.

goddammit albert i was just about to pop off with a sincere fuck you, but apology accepted and happy to hug it out at the bay area location of your choice when that's allowed.

obv i'm aware of what the tiers state. that conditions on the ground have devolved to pinky-swear/honor system is a matter of fact, and i'm aware of clinicians well outside the "oh no it's bougie" one medical orbit with nothing to gain personally who are advocating on a whisper basis that people just go in and sign the paper and get vaccinated.

i'm not doing that, but state/region/county level communication and execution have been enough of a cluster that i understand why it's happening, why a provider would advocate for it, and why a person who is not me might do it. it seems like we're both angry about that?

My mixed feelings boil down to this: that I should really wait until every senior citizen from Albania to Zimbabwe has had their shot(s); that's the ethical thing to do.

But I also know damn well that's not how it works logistically; that me heroically waiting does not mean that the grandmother in Zimbabwe will get hers any sooner.The US & UK are hoarding vaccines while something like 100 countries have not given a single dose. Therein lies the quandary.

Maybe this should really be on one of the Covid threads.

UK is #1, Canada #2, but the US is well down the hoarder list:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/contracts-purchasing-agreements.html

Newsom just announced every Californian age 16+ will be eligible for the vaccine by April 26th, 2021.

Of note

Artists living in SF! Applications for the city's new UBI program are open. The city could pay you $1000 a month, no strings attached https://t.co/siZCmHkbMO

— Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia) March 25, 2021

To qualify:
📌Must be 18+
📌Have an artistic practice "rooted in a historically marginalized community"
📌Be a resident in one of 13 San Francisco zip codes hit hardest by the pandemic
📌Not exceed a certain income threshold

More from @chloeveltman: https://t.co/E0Rh0EZfwr

— Nastia Voynovskaya (@nananastia) March 25, 2021

What does 'Have an artistic practice "rooted in a historically marginalized community"' mean?

it means if you are a POC and your work is connected to being a POC

i guess it could also apply to LGBTQ artists

as opposed to being an artist that does commercial theater or SMOB stuff of the white supremacist tradition (Symphony, Museum, Opera, Ballet)

Feel like i know some folks who would qualify...

Yeah -- I think you would. And as far as zip codes go, it's pretty much, the ones where the remaining low-income people actually live in SF

And undoubtedly now, the struggling artists of Oakland are gonna be like, "Hey Libby, when do we get our $6k?" and everyone will be mad at the mayor, yet again, because San Francisco gets nicer things than we do.

I still think San Francisco should pay some kinda tax to Oakland for providing housing/workspace to prop up the arts & culture of their gentrified city

Better than nothing, but I expect a fair amount of uproar from those rejected for whatever reason.

"SMOB"?

keep going, you're almost there

A 6-month program for a small subset of artists sounds more like a grant program than a "UBI."

Agreed...

I still think San Francisco should pay some kinda tax to Oakland for providing housing/workspace to prop up the arts & culture of their gentrified city

So OTM.

OTM but replace SF with Silicon Valley employees (and probably more pointedly: Silicon Valley NIMBY/low-density proponents).

The pandemic made me forget just how myopically outdated Gen-X Oakland bias vs. SF was lol

Fair points on myopically outdated and Gen X.

We could zoom out though, the tax base inequality in California isn't just a state issue, it also could be seen as an issue with some global impact as well: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-03-09/kern-county-approves-new-oil-and-gas-wells-over-environmental-objections

How about start by repealing Prop 13? How many millions of dollars a year in taxes does Chevron get a break on from that disastrous ballot measure?

Actually I think SF, Oakland and Berkeley should all be one city. If need be we can let Emeryville stay as the weird little corporate colony née vestigial card club company town in the midst of San Franberkland. Alameda and Piedmont are basically weird little colonies in the midst of Oakland already.

Emeryville is a weird place... barely any population, but an enormous tax base: Pixar, Genentech, IKEA, etc. Where does all that money go?

There is a free emery-go-round shuttle...

Oh that's right... that'll get you from gross BART to the gorgeous Bay Street Experience.

Pretty sure both Target & Home Depot are in Eville as well.