Thread by @kendallybrown

Jesus Christ. Oklahoma doesn't even have a *statewide* rollout plan and is leaving it up to the counties to organize their own individual vaccine rollouts.

My county is using a free SignUpGenuis page to sign people up for vaccines—which has no verification or data security.

I'd ask why Oklahoma's Secretary of Digital Transformation & Technology didn't point out how problematic this is, but @GovStitt appointed someone to the position with no digital background & he's busy getting indicted for fraud, so....fun!

https://twitter.com/kendallybrown/status/1345060443426054150

Oh cool @GovStitt and @RonDeSantisFL are still locked in a head-to-head battle for worst Governor in the United States!

While Oklahoma counties are using SignUpGenius to rollout the vaccine, Florida is using EventBrite!

https://twitter.com/BGrueskin/status/1345078793229250561

I think it’s important to add that my critique is not of county level people, who are doing the best they can. Oklahoma BARELY funds having digital people at the state level (and I say that as the former Senior Digital Strategist for Oklahoma Medicaid!)

It’s unacceptable that the burden of figuring this out has been left to the counties, who barely have the budget to pay their nurses and certainly can’t afford to hire digital strategists and data security people to build secure signup pages for them. This failure is on @govstitt

It’s unacceptable that @GovStitt had NINE MONTHS and his administration didn’t even TRY to activate the organizing and digital talent in the state to coordinate safe, efficient, secure signups for vaccine rollout. This state has talent & Stitt hasn’t even bothered to leverage it!

I know I’m biased as one of those digital people who chose to stay and work in Oklahoma, but I know first hand how strong of digital talent Oklahoma has—many already on the state’s payroll!—that @GovStitt isn’t utilizing, because he’s too busy giving unqualified party hacks jobs.

As Melissa points out, there are organizers both in and out of state who would *volunteer* their time to organize the vaccine rollout, because this is bigger than party politics. It’s about saving lives.

I wish @GovStitt could see past partisan bullshit to actually leverage it.

https://twitter.com/mcbyrne/status/1345212774897561600

The more i think about this, the angrier I get. @GovStitt has used "what works for big cities doesn't always work for Oklahoma" as his justification for ignoring guidance from the WH Task Force, but Stitt's vaccine rollout doesn't even work for OK metro areas, much less rural OK.

There are THOUSANDS of Oklahoma families without internet access, & hundreds of thousands more with little more than dial-up. How are they supposed to compete for a chance to get vaccinated when the SignUpGenuis form is only advertised online & fills up within minutes, @GovStitt?