Over the weekend, as our Twitter feeds filled up with footage of UPS trucks and FedEx planes,

chugging around the country, loaded with vaccines to fight COVID-19, my partner turned to me to ask a question.

Do we need to get on a list? Like, raise our hands, say, hey, we can use some vaccine over here.

Fair question. I mean, I think that probably a lot of people are wondering that same thing.

Sarah Overmall from over at Politico, she's been covering this vaccine rollout. She says the answer to this question

is, don't call us. We'll call you. Meaning, if you're eligible for a vaccine, someone is going to let you

know. I have to tell you, I hear you say this, like, they're going to take care of it for you.

I don't, I'm like, are they, though? I'm so used to

advocating for myself in an American system that I think it's just weird for me that it's like,

okay, there's no website where I need to sign up and like there's no doctor I need to call a million

times. Like, really? Because that's how America works.'ve hit the nail on the head you're so

used to advocating for yourself I think yeah that's a that is the American health care system

summarized and so this is going to be a clash of many things of the culture we're in right now

politically the pandemic that we've all been dealing with,

but also our ideas of what the health care system should do and what our role in it is.

In typical American fashion, there's not just one plan to distribute COVID vaccines in the United States.

There are 50 of them, at least.

Sarah's looked through a lot of them, says some are comprehensive,

others not so much.

I don't want to call out specific states, and I haven't looked at every single states,

but West Virginia's draft plan was 37 pages, which seemed a little bit short to me.

Short. In and of itself is fine.

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