Senator Brownsberger submitted the following letter to the Chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means outlining his budget priorities for Fiscal Year 2022: March 3, 2021 Michael J. RodriguesChair, Senate Committee on Ways and MeansState House – Room 212Boston, MA 02133 Dear Chairman Rodrigues, I greatly appreciate the opportunity to meet with you to discuss my …
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This post collects my takeaways from the oversight hearing on the vaccine rollout held on February 25. It includes links to the hearing itself and my Zoom discussion of the hearing.
The big picture is that we don’t have enough vaccine and the rollout has been messy. If we had enough vaccine to use all the distribution channels available to us, things would be going quite well.
My advice to those eager to be vaccinated is changing. If you are already eligible, try the state’s new website. If you can find someone to help you get there, they can get vaccinated too.
My mother imparted to her children a reverence for the founding ideals of the American republic, a recognition of our failure to live up to those ideals, a commitment to service, and most importantly, respect and empathy for every individual.
We are doing a lot, but it is hard to know whether we are doing enough to support those who have lost income due to the COVID-19 recession.
