Finding an open date to get the Covid-19 vaccine was a headache, so 90-year-old Fran Goldman will not be discouraged by some snow. The walk was three miles in each direction. He dressed in layers and grabbed sticks. “It wasn’t easy,” Ms. Goldman told the Seattle Times. “It was a challenge.”
Did I mention he had a hip replaced last year? But a walk in the snow will be worth it for two great-grandchildren. “I can’t wait to hold them,” Ms. Goldman told the newspaper. There is now an antidote to articles about public vaccine skepticism. Last year’s hesitant polls were worth mentioning, but two months after the US vaccination program, the story is about demand.
Here’s another one, though not as uplifting. In Florida, which gives priority to people 65 and older, two women, ages 34 and 44, went to an immunization site in Orange County “dressed in grandparents,” an official said Thursday. That made national headlines, although it’s not clear if it was exaggerated.
The camera video released on Friday shows little disguise, but both women wore face masks and glasses, and one wore a gray hat. That being said, women “changed their births to vaccination records to bypass the state system,” Orlando Sentinel reported. It appears they had already received a first dose of vaccine, but were denied a second dose and issued warnings of violation.
A heroic story and a malicious one. However, both are good signs of vaccine demand, as ending this pandemic depends on taking millions more photos in millions of arms.