San Francisco and what to do in it

SF is woefully behind other CA cities in getting the vaccine out to people. there has been no mass vaccination site open here like Petco Park in San Diego or Dodger Stadium in LA

most of my relatives 65+ in San Diego and LA have been vaccinated through these sites, as well as in grocery store pharmacies. There is nothing like that in San Francisco. I don't have any older friends in SF who have been able to get an appointment anywhere

hoping opportunities will open up soon though

I guess the population over 65 is higher in San Diego - newly wed and nearly dead

my 65+ parents in LA haven't been able to get vaccinated, fwiw

The is extreme inequity in vaccine delivery and acceptance across the 10m people in LA county. I assume this problem is less bad in SF if only because it’s smaller and more demographically homogenous.

Without making any assumptions about the kind of people you know in LA, you might be seeing the fact that LA is doing much better (perhaps even better than SF, but I don’t think that’s anything tk brag about) at vaccinating relatively rich white people than poor Latinos.

Fwiw dodger stadium is managed by carbon health on behalf of the city. The la county sites are responsible for more of LA’s vaccinations but the sites are less photogenic (and the recipients at those sites less tv news friendly, ie less white).

Who knows. Maybe SF is blowing it. But don’t get distracted by dodger stadium.

Lukas if you’re down to help your folks (or your folks are on Twitter) then https://mobile.twitter.com/ReporterClaudia is acting as a clearing house for news about appointment availability in LA.

recently discovered the myturn.ca.gov website, I like it

it's not the source of truth for local availability so the information is out of date. it says there are no appointments when there are, and it says there are appointments when they're aren't.

thanks caek!

it just burns me that people should have to go through so much anguish and fight just to get an appointment that will be cancelled later

FWIW, latest SF-specific numbers here, counting through yesterday:

https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/COVID-19-Vaccinations/a49y-jeyc

One-dose: 91,307, 12% of eligible population
Second-dose: just under 25K, 3%

Numbers currently at/approaching high 3K/4K a day -- so room for growth, certainly, but it is happening nonetheless.

I just checked and there are only 3 available appointments available at Moscone this week if you are 65+ or a Frontline healthcare employee.

apparently a whole raft of appointments turned up mid-day yesterday for the Moscone Center on myturn.ca.gov

a few of my friends got appointments. glad to see it's opening up. I wonder if Sunday is the day to check

Here in SF, my elderly neighbor who literally lived through the Nanking Massacre insisted on waiting for his healthcare provider to contact him rather than sign up. Phhhhh...

apologies for socal content on thsi thread but it's a good cause...

my 65+ parents in LA haven't been able to get vaccinated, fwiw

― lukas, Saturday, February 6, 2021 10:40 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

if they're free right now they can get their first dose today. plenty of slots left before close of business at dodger stadium

You can look for appointments here: https://t.co/8IujQcQcou https://t.co/BKVVhr4kuV

— Claudia Peschiutta (@ReporterClaudia) February 9, 2021

followed Claudia when you linked her, sent them that earlier today!

🎉

Happy to see this happen, meantime.

The Venue Recovery Fund is a HUGE step in helping us prevent the collapse of cultural venues in SF. Thank you Sup. Haney for your leadership & Mayor Breed for your ongoing commitment to saving SF culture & your initial commitment of $1.5M to get this fund started. 🚀🚀🚀 pic.twitter.com/5dcwyXCify

— SF Venue Coalition (@SFVenCoalition) February 9, 2021

Good news for teachers, students, and parents: https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-announces-plan-expand-vaccine-eligibility-workers-education-and-childcare

Things like this should serve as a reminder that we should fine Chevron 100% of their profits (and more!) for the next 20+ years:

CHEVRON OIL SPILL: State emergency officials say a pipeline containing a mixture of oil and gasoline is leaking 5 gallons a minute into the San Francisco Bay. #oilspill https://t.co/B3osX1POEN pic.twitter.com/pkJ5W90dzM

— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) February 10, 2021

oh jesus

600 gallons apparently - spill is now contained but ugh

https://abc7news.com/chevron-oil-spill-richmond-refinery-sf-bay-in-san-francisco/10324620

heh the Venue Recovery Fund has really interesting timing in that Congress created the Shuttered Venue Operator Grant fund through SBA (there are basic guidelines but the application and documentation requirements are still in process) ... like, I am guessing that SF is planning on getting federal dollars rather than being selflessly generous and forward thinking. Like, if they had done something like this back in July, I would have been impressed, but doing it now? ... eh it's something

Dodger Stadium vaccine center closing temporarily:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-10/shortage-of-vaccines-prompts-closure-of-city-inoculation-centers

(probably a lot of Dodger fans on this thread tbqf)

Michael Krasny's final Forum on KQED right now... :-(

thank god

Meantime, of note:

One thing I’ve learned: in crises, people want to help.

So many of you have asked how to volunteer for the vaccine rollout that @TeacupInTheBay put together the definitive guide for you - medical background or not - for @KQEDnews.https://t.co/6zy10zBAWK

— Gabe Meline (@gmeline) February 12, 2021

Uniqlo Union Square is closing for good.

Ha, literally the first full day I was here in town I went there to buy a basic pullover windbreaker. (Which lasted me for quite a while.) So, uh, fond memories I guess?

drove by Moscone today for the first time in ... a year ... line out front, signage, like "COVID-19" was a convention, like GDC, and Dreamforce lol

Both parents got their first shots, thanks again caek.

Man, Ferlinghetti really did seem like he'd be there forever.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead/2021/02/23/37b2a134-edd5-11df-abf5-a1622994c5f5_story.html

End of several eras.

Awww, that's a bummer... he complimented one of my selections at the register on time, and I walked out in a glow.

But 101 is hardly a tragedy; and the store has somehow survived.

That is sad, he did seem like he'd be around forever. Was really happy to have been able to visit City Lights when we were in San Francisco a few years ago, sadly I didn't see him in the shop that particular day.

one of bffs used to work there

oh yeah? gossip or gtfo

*leans forward*

he liked working there, but he quit because he had to move out of his rent controlled apartment in SF, so he moved to Oakland, and the commute to North Beath in terms of time and public transit wasn't worth it. ... plus before he'd worked at City Lights, he worked at Adobe, and I think he was over being the bookstore guy.

time and cost of public transit, rather

I still have (somewhere) a copy of issue #1 of Search & Destroy (June 1977) which used City Lights as their mailing address.

it was like being the "record store guy" for 20 years ... you get old, it gets old.

Search and Destroy was founded and published by V. Vale in 1977 while working at City Lights Bookstore. Vale received initial donations from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti to finance this zine that he hoped would be a clone of Andy Warhol's Interview. Mixing interviews, articles and photos, Search and Destroy presented well-written pieces documenting punk and new wave music and their accompanying aesthetic.Featuring a review of a punk show in San Francisco at the 'Gabba-Hey Gardens;' an interview with the band Crime, a collage centerfold of various punk/new wave bands; 'The Politics of Punk' by Nico Ordway and a short piece by Allen Ginsberg on New Wave.

xp Albert -- Vale has a bunch of those (or at least some) that he brings with him and sets up at a merch table when he does talks

Vale is a lovely person to talk to, I've been to his apartment.

City Lights is, tbph, not that good a bookstore, but I'm still glad it's there.

I will honestly say, though, that if I could have guaranteed Modern Times' survival at the Valencia Street location for twenty more years, I would have been fine with City Lights shutting down. And I'm a poet! Modern Times was just a better store.

(For one, City Lights doesn't carry used books, which means that a majority of the stuff they have just isn't worth looking at imho)

I like(d) Dog-Eared Books a lot though I think ilxor bamcquern has some story about that place when he applied to work there once upon a time.

I know this is the SF thread, but I do miss Issues (in Oakland) -- I had to actually google where to buy my annual Slingshot day planner this year! (yeah I know 1st world lefty problems)