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.

  • 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.