Watching most of my folks in the US and elsewhere get appointments, first doses, and second doses has me feeling some typa way. It's wild to me how Switzerland, the pharmaceutical capital of the world, is somehow tripping over itself to get enough vaccines to vaccinate a national population smaller than that of New York City. And yet here we are. I also want to recognize that vaccine apartheid is real and the vaccine situation in the Global South makes me furious at the greed and ineptitude of people and structures that uphold such stark inequity. As always, the oroboros of capitalism exists to consume itself as the whole thing will most likely come back to bite the Global North if something isn't done.
Now, because of who I am as a person, I've taken to maintaining an Excel spreadsheet with all the data relevant for my region.
It's really telling that a lot of the information is coming from the German part of Switzerland (because most folks here including the ones at the regional newspaper it seems have decided that Covid is over). At the moment it seems as though Moderna is experiencing delivery delays, which is unfortunate because my region decided to rely predominantly on Moderna for its supply. I haven't seen anything in the news or on the websites to indicate that it will pick back up but I'm guessing it has to at some point. It's all very confusing and I'm trying to make sense of it the best I can. But I suppose when it all comes down to it, all I can do is wait.
I did manage to get an appointment in Zurich. According to the Bundesamt für Gesundheit (Federal Health Office) it is perfectly legal to be vaccinated in another canton. But it would surprise me approximately zero percent if I were to make the trip up there only to have some crusty old white dude be like "no...because, reasons." So we'll see how that goes.
