Alaska just opened up covid vaccine eligibility to EVERYONE 16 and older
My friend Blake made this and I’m fucking losing it
THIS IS COMPLETELY THANKS TO THE ALASKAN NATIVE COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER AND PUT ALL OUR RESOURCES INTO FIGHTING COVID-19 FROM ALL FRONTS AND ITS NOT BEING TALKED ABOUT
We sent as many people home as we could while keeping our healthcare and essential community resources open, and by essential I mean essential (like detox facilities), we had mediatory policy changes happening before Trump even recognized Covid as a thing, our counselors and doctors and everyone we could feasibly get to do so has been working remotely from home or by themselves in office for anything non-emergency related
When shut down first started even being talked about we were all sent home an hour early(still paid for the hour) to make sure our company provided laptops worked and we could use them without hitch
When the vaccines came out we immediately set to work getting not just Native people but anyone who worked for us and their families/household members vaccinated, no cost
No one else in this state worked as hard or took Covid as seriously as the Alaskan Native community and their health centers