Re: Pandemics: who should get the shot
Tico wrote:So who do you think should be first in line for vaccination in the face of a pandemic?
Health care workers, because they deserve something for all the crap they've been putting up with for years, and because we need them to hand out more shots (same reason airline passengers are told to put on their own masks before their kids masks).
Politicians and rich people will go around the rules just like always, so making rules won't change anything for them.
After that, it's first come first served.
Pure efficiency.
The pandemic of 1918 took people in their 30's and 40's. The sad fact is that by the time the pandemic starts this time, it'll probably run its course before they can get much vaccine out to anyone, so the whole question of who gets it will probably only affect a small fraction of the population.
If governments could put a public health policy in place ahead of time, there wouldn't need to be a question of who gets it first. But let's face it, the government is not going to be ready in time. They had more warning with Katrina to repair infrastructure, and it was a more solvable problem, and multiple levels of government still screwed it up.
But it's not all the government that needs to prepare for the flu. People need to do it as well, and they should start today... stop smoking, stop drinking, lose weight, exercise every day, quit drinking sugar water and quite eating McFat Burgers and Fries. But nobody's going to do that either, so who's less prepared, our government who are a reflection of us, or us.
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