Again, you're misrepresenting it. It's not "people in a very high risk group getting the vaccine in a way that promotes public health but offends your sense of fairness" that's the issue. The issue is a very simple on about how and why a select group from one particular religion were afforded a privilege not available to others. If it's on the basis that they were religious leaders who would promote the getting of the vaccine to their congregants, then prioritising other religious leaders would be equally beneficial - but that wasn't done. Religious leadership is not one of Utah's stated key priority groups. If the Utah Health Authority hasn't afforded them the privilege (and it looks a lot like they didn't) then we're left with them taking the decision themselves. Had they taken it upon themselves to gather all religious leaders to their health facility as a cross-denominal initiative to lead the way on vaccination (with the approval of the Utah Health Authority) then that would've been the positive message you seem to be desperately trying to filter from this example of self importance by LDS Leaders. But they didn't do that.cinepro wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 4:44 pmI still think it's an interesting question: which bothers you more? People in a very high risk group getting the vaccine in a way that promotes public health but offends your sense of "fairness", or a healthy, low-risk person getting the vaccine before other high-risk people do, but in a way that supports your sense of "fairness" because a somewhat arbitrary decision was made by a bureaucracy?IHAQ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:06 amYou are misrepresenting the situation being asked about in the OP by suggesting John Dehlin getting the vaccine is an appropriate contrast. The OP is asking how did a significant proportion of the Apostles (100% of the Apostles >70 years old) and their wives all get the vaccine on the same day at the head of the queue, and why. An individual getting a vaccine more than a week into the programme is an entirely different thing. By all means start a different thread to discuss how and why John Dehlin got a vaccination more than a week into the program.
If you are sensing any frustration on my part, it's simply my frustration with your ongoing misrepresentation of the situation we are discussing. I've articulated how you are misrepresenting it on a couple of occasions now, I won't be doing so again.