IHAQ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:06 am
You 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.
I 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? It's a choice between science (and public health), and "fairness." I've already clearly explained that I choose public health. It's just interesting to me that others choose "fairness" with such vigor. And to be clear, I certainly don't begrudge Dehlin or anyone else from getting the vaccine. With so many vaccinees going unused at this point, I think it's great when
anyone gets a shot.
I would also point out that your perception of there only being a "queue" or some other randomized methodology for vaccine distribution is entirely false (and this false perception is probably contributing to your frustration). The vaccines are being allocated based on politics, public health, statistics, logistics, and guessing. When the vaccine is made available to certain pools, there may be some degree of apparent "randomness", but even then, it is largely determined by persistence, access to technology, and then some degree of "luck"/randomness. As a healthy <50yo, my inability to get the vaccine right now isn't due to "randomness"; it's by design. Although I could go to the mass vaccination area a few miles from my house and wait in the stand bye queue where some people in my group
are getting vaccinations due to no shows and under-allocation. So is the fact that I haven't been vaccinated yet due to luck, randomness, design, or my personal choice?
