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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by Animats on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:39PM (#27991861)
Lower socioeconomic communities have poorer access to vaccinations

Early on, maybe. Not now.

Find the poorest zip code in Alabama, 35203, which is in Birmingham. Look it up in Vaccines.gov. Nearest vaccination locations:

Publix Supermarket, 0.79 miles, in stock.

UAB Hospital, 1.03 miles, in stock.

Walgreens, 1.62 miles. CVS, 1.65 and 1.74 miles.

Legion Field vaccination clinic, 1.99 miles.

There are a dozen more within 5 miles.

That's a populated area. If you look for Cotopia, AL, a small remote town in the poorest county in Alabama, where the post office closed in 1986, it's not quite as easy. You have to go 9 miles, to the nearest WalMart (#10-0731).

If you can make it to a WalMart, a CVS, or a Walgreens, you can get vaccinated.

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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by Animats on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:21PM (#27992462)
The Tuskegee airmen experiments.

Which confuses two completely different events, the Tuskegee untreated syphilis experiment and the Tuskegee airmen, both over half a century ago.

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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by Fine-Cut4983 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:33PM (#27999022)
The US government has historically conducted quite a bit of experimentation on broad swaths of the population [1], not just your favored marginalized groups. So it sounds like "Karen" is perfectly justified in her skepticism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

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