Operation Warp Speed produced a vaccine for SarsCovid2 in nine months. President Trump cleared the government out of it’s own way to be able to get this vaccine to the public in months versus years!! We will see how the vaccine plays out going forward but for now there are bigger fish to fry.
Vaccines are being distributed as we speak. The “experts” are weighing in as to how the vaccine is to be given to the public. The NY Times published and article with three experts weighing in. In reading the article and sitting on it for a few hours, these “experts” reduced the population into who deserves it and who doesn’t. As “experts” in their field, their expertise is limited to a certain “field”. The world is much more than a specific field.
As these experts weighed in things like these quotes came up. To me, the issue of ethics is very significant, very important for this country and clearly favors the essential worker group because of the high proportion of minority, low-income and low-education workers among essential workers. Teachers have middle-class salaries, are very often white, and they have college degrees. Of course they should be treated better, but they are not among the most mistreated of workers. When you talk about disproportionate impact and you’re concerned about people getting back into the labor force, many are mothers, and they will have a harder time if their children don’t have a reliable place to go, and if you think generally about people who have jobs where they can’t telework, they are disproportionately Black and brown. They’ll have more of a challenge when child care is an issue. Older populations are whiter. Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit. These quotes I directly copied from Clash Daily.
Here is my take. From the very start of this pandemic the media has been running the death count somewhere on the screen. It has never been broken down to demographics or age groups, there would not be the same impact as a total sum of death. I know nothing of these “experts”, at 52 I think of them as snot nosed kids who know nothing of life at all. As I inch my way to my own inevitable end I go to saving lives. Period end of story! We already know 99.9% of us will live if we contract SarsCovid2. We get to stay home for two weeks. How many of us 75 and above want to see the sunset one more time? See the grandchildren open Christmas gifts one more time? Who are you to determine when it is someone’s time to pass on. What will you do mister expert when you reach 75 or above and someone half your age looks at you as expendable?