The CDC must not understand how DG look inside and operate if they think that this is a good idea
COVID-19 Vaccines Coming to a DG near you?
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The CDC must not understand how DG look inside and operate if they think that this is a good idea
Elim Garak
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This honestly might not be a bad idea we don't have enough details on how they will execute to know.
It's not a bad deal at all, but DG doesn't have the infrastructure or employees to pull it off. Even the sanitary conditions alone of a DG would be enough for some people alone to say no to getting a vaccine there. They would literally need to hire more workers to improve the conditions of the story before the CDC would hop on board of them distributing the vaccine. That's something DG has never done or cared to do.
The CDC must not understand how DG look inside and operate if they think that this is a good idea
I had never been in a dollar general until last year right at the outset of quarantine. Relative asked me to pick something up for them and specified to go into the dollar general. I didn't think nothing of it at the time. Sure, no problem. This is at the height of COVID paranoia. I walked in there, and was sweating bullets. No social distancing, some not wearing masks, people on top of one another, ventilation in that place was a death trap, etc.
It's always crowded the majority of the time compounded by being crowded around boxes and supplies as they only have two people (3 at the most) operating an entire store.
Elim Garak
Veteran
Of course but once again we don't know the details. Believe me I'm well aware use to be a supervisor for dollar general as a young man.
King
The black man is always targeted.
They could afford it even without the massive government contract they will embezzle from it.
DJ Paul's Arm
Veteran
That’s the mall in those rural areas.
They could but they won’t as they are cheap in the way that they operate and do business. They were too cheap to even offer their employees a decent amount of money as an incentive to take the COVID-19 vaccine even as it’s less than 180,000 employees.
Four hours of pay isn’t shyt when you account for taxes and the pennies that they make in the first place.
King
The black man is always targeted.
This is a huge logistical problem that could be solved by partnering with local clinics/hospitals to set up tents around or in DG stores.
It’s actually a bad idea on a large IMO - too much of a logistical hurdle and dependent upon a store that already lacks capacity and resources to pull it off.
I could maybe see this working in a few rural areas without access to adequate medical care, but even then idk. The health care system is already too decentralized for them to pull it off. It’s embarrassing actually, if we had universal healthcare this wouldn’t be an issue. And we wouldn’t have to be dependent on capitalist firms.
I count 4 DG’s in my town on the top of my head and none of them the capacity or space to pull off a vaccine distribution site. I understand and get what they are trying to do, but I don’t see any way they could reasonably pull it off. DG is going to try as they want in on the vaccine bread, but their stores just aren't built to make it happen.
That's why I have said that the vaccine distribution won't happen as fast as people want and expect it to. It's too many people who want/need the vaccine and too many logistic hurdles to make it happen in a reasonable period of time. Not to mention that it's going to put more burden on your workers who are already worked to capacity as it currently is.
One of the GOAT stores along with Family Dollar. Get a ton of snacks and candy up in there man
Ya' Cousin Cleon
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