Affirmations can only do so much with community partners like Dr. Like many, Garcia is frustrated by the current scarcity of vaccine. “And we’re continuing to have Covid vaccinations at Affirmations.

“We’re trying to reduce whatever barriers there are to folks getting this shot,” Garcia said. An advantage to holding the clinics at the center is that some LGBTQ+ people feel more comfortable seeking healthcare such as seeing a therapist, getting tested for HIV or being vaccinated against Covid in that environment. Garcia said one of the responsibilities of an LGBTQ+ community center is to protect the community’s health. “We’ll do whatever the Oakland County Health Department suggests.” Yet, he added, that is obviously contingent on how much vaccine the county has available. “I suspect that because so many people came Tuesday and Saturday, they may ask us to expand operations,” Garcia said. “Then they ran out of vaccine.” He said that at the second vaccination clinic, timed to coincide with Royal Oak Pride, there was enough vaccine for 120 shots in arms. “Last Tuesday, our first one, we vaccinated 100 people,” Garcia said. Not surprisingly, demand exceeded supply during the clinics. Members of the community are being pre-screened before receiving the vaccine. At the time of publication, the organization had held several vaccine clinics. Today, in the final installment, Dave Garcia discusses why Affirmations is partnering with the county to offer the vaccine and shares his frustration on the slow pace of vaccine production and distribution:ĭave Garcia, executive director of Affirmations, has been keeping an eagle eye on Michigan’s vaccine supply. But most times you can come to an amicable settlement with your car by driving slower, turning off climate control and other electronics, without sacrificing safety or sanity.Yesterday in the Pride Source series, Monkeypox in Michigan, Devin O’Hara shared how an idea and an Instagram account turned into an opportunity to educate his community about the monkeypox virus. There are too many variables that impact on your EV ’ s range calculation, that mere mortals like me will never precisely understand. The projected battery range is best seen as a negotiation between you and your EV. Who would have thought that down jackets are so useful when driving an EV in the winter! Range rises to a sensible 370 km, though it falls to 315 when I turn the heater back on.

This strategy works (or maybe it’s Co-pilot’s prayers working) as15 minutes later kWh/100km is down to 52 and dropping fast.

We put on our down jackets, turn off the heat and crawl along at 50 km per hour keeping an eagle eye on the range projection. I am not sure how any part of this lecture is useful in the middle of freezing in the Yarra Valley, except that we need to do something to reduce that absurdly high reading Evie is giving us for kWh/100km! The Kona we are driving is somewhere in the middle of the pack in terms of cold weather efficiency. There are scientific papers about this sort of stuff. It turns out some EVs (like some people) are less tolerant of cold and so lose more range than others. ‘She don’t like Mondays?’ I offer unhelpfully.Īrmed with prior research, Co-pilot expounds: all EVs are less efficient in cold climates, as there is no internal combustion to produce heat and the cold slows down the chemical reactions in the battery. When we try to drive out of Yarra Junction, Monday 4 July, the night’s frost still clinging to the windscreen, temperature 1 degree Celsius, heater blazing inside, the car’s range even with battery at 85%, plummets to 220 km before we have left the driveway of our B&B! The kWh/100km reading is 420!!! But the infrastructure of easy access to petrol, stops us thinking about it in the same way as we tend to with an EV. Headwinds also impact on ICE car efficiency and increase their fuel consumption. What that number actually measures is a mystery to me (like most things technological) but I do understand that it is an important sign from EVs to drivers. On the Goyder Highway, even driving 20 or 30 kms below the speed limit, the projected range remained low and the all-significant statistic of “kWh/100km” stubbornly above 18. Particularly over the Blue Mountains, and a couple of days later on the Goyder Highway from Mildura to Burra, the wind was strong and against us. Some of the roads are narrow, curly and with more elevation, compared to the Hume Highway which we had taken most of the way from Melbourne to Sydney. On the way back west from Sydney, we drove through Cowra and Mildura to Port Augusta.

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