This weekend Guilford County, for whatever reason, got shorted over 10,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
At a press conference on Monday, Jan. 25, neither Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston nor Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan had a good explanation as to why the vaccines were not delivered as expected. The result was that over 10,000 appointments had to be cancelled.
The fact is that Charlotte had a mass vaccination event and needed thousands of doses, and the implication is that is where the vaccines for Guilford County went.
Guilford County Commissioner James Upchurch in an “Open Letter to the Community” stated, “In this week’s case, it appears that the bulk of the state’s dosages were re-routed to Mecklenburg County.”
However, the underlying reason that Greensboro and Guilford County got shorted on vaccines might be found at the Tuesday, Jan. 19 Greensboro City Council meeting.
During a discussion of the nondiscrimination ordinance, the City Council spent quite a bit of time discussing how much the state government picked on Greensboro.
The gist of the discussion was that other cities might be able to get away with enforcing their nondiscrimination ordinances with fines, but Greensboro was treated differently by the state.
Councilmember Michelle Kennedy said, “The city of Greensboro has been a direct target on issues like this.”
She also said, “We all know what happens at the state level when we move items that they don’t like.”
Mayor Nancy Vaughan said, “We all know how Greensboro is looked at in the legislature and the things we haven’t gotten over the years.”
Councilmember Sharon Hightower said, “We are the redheaded stepchild.”
City Councilmember Yvonne Johnson said, “We have been a target of the legislature.”
So the City Council had that discussion about how poorly Greensboro is treated by the state government in Raleigh on Tuesday and then, a few days later, discovers that Cone Health in Greensboro is being shorted over 10,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, apparently because Charlotte needed them.
Perhaps it was just an odd coincidence or perhaps it was just more proof that the City Council was right when it was talking about the state government’s attitude toward Greensboro.
Sharon Hightower with the racist and insensitive to nontraditional family reference! Didn’t Greensboro Mandate Mayor and her social justice League just prohibit discrimination over natural hair….only to have red headed children demonized and singled out as unworthy . It is especially out of order because what is wrong with stepchildren? So insensitive and hurtful!!
Right! As usual, this is ugly. We can’t put a brake on the do-a-lot-but-nots at the dipstick council. Perhaps Raleigh could drop our cash in friendlier places, but they should send this stuff out per capita. That is the only fair way.
Absurd in NC
With some of the crap coming out of Greensboro, it doesn’t surprise me at all.
That is not what she meant at all, Get over it .
How about the City Council figuring out ways to improve the relationship with the folks (Reps and Dems) in Raleigh? Instead of always throwing grenades at them, maybe a “charm initiative” would be a better path for the City Council.
Target of the Legislature??? Why don’t you think it could be Gov. and handy Mandy. I guess Dems can never be incompetent, just vindictive.