Huge Ma, founder of TurboVax, wants to represent his Queens district in the New York State Assembly
Huge Ma, a.k.a. @TurboVax, a.k.a. Vaccine Daddy. Photo: Ron Adar/SOPA Images/Shutterstock Maybe you are wondering: Since Huge Ma, New York City’s “Vax Daddy,” took his vaccine-finding operation off-line, what has he been up to? Running for state office, according to The City: Ma has filed a challenge to Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan, who has represented the Queens district where Ma grew up since 1984.
“I code for a living. I never imagined that I could have that sort of tangible impact on all these people’s lives,” Ma, 31, said. Regarding @TurboVax, the Twitter account that elevated him to local fame, he continued, “I only did what I thought was right and what was good for my neighbors.” His desire to get into local politics, Ma added, “is an extension of that.”
Before he started @TurboVax in January, Ma’s primary job was Airbnb software engineer. He built the account, which crawled state and city vaccine sites to aggregate appointment information, after seeing how hard it was for his mom — a nurse — to schedule her shots.
Once vaccination rates picked up, Ma pivoted @TurboVax to bike-lane advocacy, which will remain one of his key campaign issues. Others, per his Twitter, include “true climate action,” “housing abundance,” “universal health care,” “free CUNY,” referring to the City University of New York, and “good government tech.
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