Some Towns Actually Want Vaccine Tourists Daniel Block
At 8 a.m. on February 14, the very minute New York made me eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, I fired up my laptop and started looking for a shot. Over the course of five torturous minutes, I blasted my way through a laggy eligibility screener, waited for the confirmation page to unfreeze, and finally landed on the portal listing the state’s mass-vaccination sites. “Appointments available,” promised the Westchester County Center, the one closest to my house.
I clicked to sign up, but it was too late. Within 45 seconds, I moved on to Manhattan’s Javits Center, where I seemed to have nabbed an appointment but then was met with an error screen. I worked my way down the list of sites and continued to strike out. Long Island? Nothing. Albany? Nope. Binghamton? Nada. After 30 minutes of clicking, refreshing, and waiting, I finally snatched a slot: February 26, at 4:30 p.m., in Plattsburgh … a four-and-a-half
An Unexpected Boon to America’s Vaccine Towns Daniel Block
At 8 a.m. on February 14, the very minute New York made me eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, I fired up my laptop and started looking for a shot. Over the course of five torturous minutes, I blasted my way through a laggy eligibility screener, waited for the confirmation page to unfreeze, and finally landed on the portal listing the state’s mass-vaccination sites. “Appointments available,” promised the Westchester County Center, the one closest to my house.
I clicked to sign up, but it was too late. Within 45 seconds, I moved on to Manhattan’s Javits Center, where I seemed to have nabbed an appointment but then was met with an error screen. I worked my way down the list of sites and continued to strike out. Long Island? Nothing. Albany? Nope. Binghamton? Nada. After 30 minutes of clicking, refreshing, and waiting, I finally snatched a slot: February 26, at 4:30 p.m., in Plattsburgh … a four-and-
A Tribute to Clement Woodrow Iton
CLEMENT ITON BY JOEL PROVIDENCE
FOUR YEARS ago, I met William Iton at the ET Joshua airport, where we spoke of a rift between himself, in his capacity as Registrar of the university of the West Indies and the government of Jamaica and which had made regional news. In his pronouncements on the matter, he indicated the failure of other senior UWI leadership to stand up and defend the institution against what he considered to be a case without merit.
But alas, he was left in the front line…by himself.
Will asserted humbly that he was not better, not brighter, not nobler than those who carry Vice before their title, conversely, they did not have anything over him, certainly in this matter. He was prepared to stand up and defend his very principled position, even if he had to walk away from the institution that he had served wonderfully well for more than three decades. Then I said quietly to myself, in support of his position that he was indeed