I'm not actually upset Grandma and Grandpa are getting vaccinated first. My state abandoned any pretense that "essential workers" might get prioritized in the vaccine rollout once hospital staff all got theirs and is now functioning on a purely age based rollout. Many of my coworkers and I are "essential" frontline workers and many of us are in our twenties or teens which means we will be some of the last people to get vaccinated, meanwhile a bunch of comfy PMC-types in their thirties and forties who get to work from home are going to get their shots months ahead of us.

It's bad enough that they've essentially condemned us to death for the economy this whole time, but now they're not even doing it for the economy.

  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    no of course I'm not mad at the old people. Just kind of wondering to what extent I'm justified in being upset that my vaccination date was effectively pushed back two or three months and a new level of disregard being shown for workers like myself edit: in favor of older people

      • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I'm not upset at the old people though. They had as much say in this as I did (which is none). I'm envious of older (than me) people being prioritized, particularly people in their thirties, forties, and fifties who have gotten to work from home throughout this entire thing while I've had to go into work every day terrified of my lungs being permanently scarred. I'm mad at the government for all their failures through this pandemic and definitely mad that they've decided that I am lower priority than someone who gets to sit on zoom calls all day.

          • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            If you got your vaccine before an essential worker because the government decided that's how it was gonna go, would that essential worker not be justified in their anger with the government?

              • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                If you got your vaccine before an essential worker because the government decided that’s how it was gonna go, would that essential worker not be justified in their anger with the government?

                  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    I just wanna know your answer to the question

                    And idk how I can make it more clear that I'm not mad at old people. I'm relieved that my grandparents already got it. I'm pissed I'm getting mine in July instead of May like the initial plan said. I'm pissed at the government that has decided my 35 year old friend who gets to work from home is higher priority for the vaccine than me, despite the fact that he only leaves the house to go hiking while I gotta deal with customers coughing on me all day.

      • Runcible [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Prioritizing elderly because the individual risk from infection is higher seems worse than prioritizing essential workers where the potential risk of exposure & transmission is higher seems foolish to me. While the elderly are a vulnerable population I think it's still reasonable to conclude this is societally detrimental even for them.

        (am not a virus wrangler)

          • Runcible [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah, I can definitely concede that the majority of the service industry wasn't "essential" and was just sacrificed for profit and convenience.