What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?

[jon-nyc]

It wasn't political as in partisan, it was political as in 'who deserves it', rather than based purely on risk. Part of that was driven by a desire for 'equity' (newspeak for discrimination) but part of it was just (IMO) an expression of guilt by those who could avoid the risk to those who couldn't.

[Loki]

What did Fauci say?

[jon-nyc]

I don't know.

[Copper]

There should be a big thermometer in Times Square, and elsewhere, maybe on the web, that shows number of doses in storage and number of people vaccinated.

[jon-nyc]

It’s on the web where more people can see it.

[Copper]

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

[LuFins Dad]

Where's the Gates operation that was supposed to vaccinate the world within 6 months of a vaccine?

Also, those 18-year-old Walmart employees really should stand aside...

[Jolly]

Got my call for vaccination today.

I respectfully declined...

[Copper]

kook

barn door, horse

[George K]

@jolly said in What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?:

Got my call for vaccination today.

I respectfully declined...

Did you tell them?

[Jolly]

@george-k said in What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?:

@jolly said in What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?:

Got my call for vaccination today.

I respectfully declined...

Did you tell them?

Yep.

[jon-nyc]

@lufins-dad said in What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?:

Where's the Gates operation that was supposed to vaccinate the world within 6 months of a vaccine?

We talked again about this maybe 3 months ago. Simple answer is I don’t know.

I speculated at the time that the government stepped up to the plate so maybe they think they didn’t have to. But that was just speculation.

[Doctor Phibes]

A friend of mine's wife got the call yesterday, and the jab today. She's a harbormaster on
Cape Cod.

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?:

A friend of mine's wife got the call yesterday, and the jab today. She's a harbormaster on
Cape Cod.

Essential!

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?:

@doctor-phibes said in What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?:

A friend of mine's wife got the call yesterday, and the jab today. She's a harbormaster on
Cape Cod.

Essential!

It's hilarious. I looked her up on LinkedIn, and she's actually an assistant Harbormaster.

[jon-nyc]

So she sits in a tug by herself most of the time and 3-4 times a day joins one person in a cockpit for 20m. But by all means she 'deserves' it.

Her 74 year old mom on chemo is just gonna have to wait.

[Loki]

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/spain-judge-orders-incapacitated-woman-virus-vaccine-75227435

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?:

@lufins-dad said in What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?:

Where's the Gates operation that was supposed to vaccinate the world within 6 months of a vaccine?

We talked again about this maybe 3 months ago. Simple answer is I don’t know.

I speculated at the time that the government stepped up to the plate so maybe they think they didn’t have to. But that was just speculation.

I may have missed the answer to that...

[Rainman]

@jolly said in What’s with the prioritization of “essential” workers?:

Got my call for vaccination today.

I respectfully declined...

Jolly, I must have missed something.
Why did you decline?
It's pretty important to me if you're not taking the vaccine, you are the most knowledgeable on this forum when it comes to how things like a vaccine works.

Of course it's none of my business, so there is that.

[Loki]

North Dakota, West Virginia, Connecticut and South Dakota are winning the vaccination rate game at 74%,64,60 and 58% of distributed vaccines. Smaller populations of course but good lessons learned I suspect.

National ave is 34%