[Genuine Realist]

in today's HHS briefing,  they said the plan was to distribute the initial 6.4 million vaccines to the states on a per capita basis.  

https://time.com/5915362/covid-19-vaccin...out-plans/

From there,  I guess states are free to distribute based on whatever priority they deem appropriate?

What a can of worms. In an earlier line, I strongly opined that any racially based system was a political disaster, since there is no genetic vulnerability. Better to identify categories of employment, vulnerability, and so on. But that is actually hard to do, given life styles, part-time work, actual work style, etc. (For example, a lab assistant to a cancer researcher may technically qualify as a health worker, but faces no risk whatsoever and actually does no hands on health care, in relation to the pandemic.) 

Probably best to throw in the sponge and just do a birthday lottery, as in the movie Contagion. Simple and totally unrelated to real or phantom privilege.

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I hadn't seen that, but thanks for the info.  It doesn't surprise me, as Pfizer's partner, BioNTech, is a German company (founded by the children of Turkish immigrants), so it makes sense that some of those doses would be earmarked for the EU/Germany.

By the end of next year, there will be multiple billions of doses of vaccine, enough (probably) to vaccinate all developed countries.  Fauci expects widespread availability of the vaccine by April, which sounds ambitious, but if you exclude the 40% of people who might refuse a vaccine, I could see it.

By the way, how's this for the power of immigrants:
As mentioned, BioNTech is a German company founded by a husband and wife team who are the children of Turkish immigrants.
Pfizer's CEO, Albert Bouria, is Greek; the company was founded in 1849 by a Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart, a pair of German immigrants
Moderna was founded by Derrick Rossi, who is a Canadian, and its CEO is Stéphane Bancel, a Frenchman
BC

Immigrant energy fuels, and has always fueled, this nation's culture and economy. Particularly so if you view the emigration of African-Americans from the Deep South to the urban North as a type of internal immigration. There's a really good book, 'The Warmth of Other Suns', by Isabel Wilkerson on that history, a career maker.

[Genuine Realist]

in today's HHS briefing,  they said the plan was to distribute the initial 6.4 million vaccines to the states on a per capita basis.  

https://time.com/5915362/covid-19-vaccin...out-plans/

From there,  I guess states are free to distribute based on whatever priority they deem appropriate?

What a can of worms. In an earlier line, I strongly opined that any racially based system was a political disaster, since there is no genetic vulnerability. Better to identify categories of employment, vulnerability, and so on. But that is actually hard to do, given life styles, part-time work, actual work style, etc. (For example, a lab assistant to a cancer researcher may technically qualify as a health worker, but faces no risk whatsoever and actually does no hands on health care, in relation to the pandemic.) 

Probably best to throw in the sponge and just do a birthday lottery, as in the movie Contagion. Simple and totally unrelated to real or phantom privilege.

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I hadn't seen that, but thanks for the info.  It doesn't surprise me, as Pfizer's partner, BioNTech, is a German company (founded by the children of Turkish immigrants), so it makes sense that some of those doses would be earmarked for the EU/Germany.

By the end of next year, there will be multiple billions of doses of vaccine, enough (probably) to vaccinate all developed countries.  Fauci expects widespread availability of the vaccine by April, which sounds ambitious, but if you exclude the 40% of people who might refuse a vaccine, I could see it.

By the way, how's this for the power of immigrants:
As mentioned, BioNTech is a German company founded by a husband and wife team who are the children of Turkish immigrants.
Pfizer's CEO, Albert Bouria, is Greek; the company was founded in 1849 by a Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart, a pair of German immigrants
Moderna was founded by Derrick Rossi, who is a Canadian, and its CEO is Stéphane Bancel, a Frenchman
BC

Immigrant energy fuels, and has always fueled, this nation's culture and economy. Particularly so if you view the emigration of African-Americans from the Deep South to the urban North as a type of internal immigration. There's a really good book, 'The Warmth of Other Suns', by Isabel Wilkerson on that history, a career maker.