For those hundreds, perhaps thousands, of you who are long term readers, I want to refer you back to my blog of 5/27/20 in which I brought up the following questions:
When a vaccine is available, who should get it first? Common sense would dictate that the healthcare workers should be the first ones to get the vaccine, but then who should be next? And then who? And then who after that? Etc, etc. And who should make these decisions?
I bring up this 5/27/20 blog, because of a front page story in the Wall Street Journal on 8/7/20 that was titled: “Early Vaccine Supply Unlikely to Fill Need For High-Risk People.” (The following issues are from this article.):
Early on in this article is the question of who should be first in line. “Public Health officials estimate that more than 100 million people in the U.S should get vaccinated before the general public. This group would include doctors and nurses, nursing-home residents, and other essential workers.”
After reading this, your antennas should be on high alert because of the reference to “essential workers.” Remember when the lockdowns were sprung on us all here in California, “essential workers” did not have to comply, but many of us asked, “who decides which workers are deemed “essential”? I am not sure that we ever really knew why various stores and occupations were judged essential, and others weren’t. Mark my words, the same bozos who decided that marijuana was essential, but getting one’s hair cut was not essential could possibly be responsible again . . . OMG! Some of us may never get vaccinated.
Again from this WSJ article: “Initial supplies look like they will cover only a fraction of the high-priority groups” . . . “There may be ten to twenty million doses available at first. . .“ Note above that ‘100 million should get vaccinated before the general public’, so even among the healthcare workers, there will be a prioritization. (E.R workers vs ICU staff. Other hospital workers vs. those that work in nursing homes. Etc.)
Hold on tight because if and when a vaccine becomes available, then the real fun will start. Young vs. old. Rich vs. poor. Politicians vs. military personnel?
When all of this comes to fruition, remember . . . “I told you so!”