To the editor:

Vaccine for Covid 19, 80 doses, given to town by the state. Total lack of planning at the state level. What had the state officials been doing the past 12 months just to dump the vaccine on the towns and municipalities. Unconscionable! Okay, that being said what did our town management do when given the vaccine.

Okay, 33 doses went to Cove Apartments ... don’t know a thing about these folks but assume lower income. Pleased they got vaccine. The remaining 47 doses into a first come first served lottery. Was this the best use and allocation of this priceless scarce resource?

Questions that I believe need answers:

• Did the manager ask anyone for input?

• Were these folks the most vulnerable town citizens?

• What were their ages, their co-morbidities?

• Where was the rational decision making?

• Did he make a unilateral decision, like the BLM flag, assuming the town council would agree. Who is accountable?

• And the most important question: What is the process and plan for further vaccinations in the town of Barrington?

A picture was published the day after the rollout of the first doses of the vaccine. My beautiful 93 year old neighbor, (recent heart valve patient) who lectures on the Holocaust after living in Germany during these horrific years, knocking on the town hall door looking for her place in line.

We are better than this!

Sandy Stamoulis

Barrington