The confusion over who would be getting vaccinated led to traffic backups at the site Friday, with a long line of cars stretching out of the park. The long lines continued on Saturday.
“I have been trying for over a week. I have gone out to 10 different sites - Miami, Palm Beach, Broward, Jackson Memorial, Baptist Hospital, said Susan Campagnano, who was in line before sunrise. They all say all the appointments are gone.”
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Holiday Park is a state-run vaccination site, with the City of Fort Lauderdale assisting with the traffic flow. When traffic increased Friday, the site was temporarily shut down and reopened as it moved along.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Lines of cars were stretched out onto Federal Highway for miles on Saturday as people waited to get a COVID-19 vaccination at the state-run distribution site at Holiday Park. The site closed Saturday at 4 p.m., but people got an early start.
Sheila Prager was waiting in line nearly 3 hours before the site opened at 8 a.m.
“I was out on the road in line at twenty after five,” Sheila Prager said.
Law and order president incited an insurrection
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The video and still photographs of the Capitol insurrection are almost surreal in their horror. Those images will haunt many of us for the rest of our lives. I’ll never manage to unsee that video of a District of Columbia police officer lying helpless on the ground while being beaten by a rioter with a flagpole that bears an American flag, the symbol of our nation. While the officer was being beaten, other rioters excitedly chanted “U-S-A!” to express their approval of this barbaric attack.
The thugs who so gleefully assaulted the police in our nation’s capitol were urged on by Donald Trump who, during his re-election campaign, depicted himself as the law and order candidate. During one of his debates with Biden, Trump stated, “The people of this country want and demand law and order.” There’s an Orwellian quality about followers of a self-proclaimed law and order president beating up p