[akiddoc]

 
So I go birthday lottery, in the interest of simplicity. The KISS principle.

What's the 1st S stand for?  Surely not simple.  Nothing simple about that!!

Suppose you're the single parent of a 4yo, 6yo, and 8yo.  How many times do you wait in line with all 3?  Four times.

Or are you going to make your rules less simple?  If you go with the address line (which is more available & less sensitive - can be off driver's licenses, utility bills, etc) instead of birth date, families can go together.

With addresses, publicity of the event can be focused to the right group, everyone knows that everyone in their area is going (for instance, school could close for the day if needed, rather than 366 different absences), etc.  Businesses can expect a slowdown on their neighborhood's day.

Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Birthday lotteries may not be as simple as you'd like, until you compare it with everything else
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One obvious problem with neighborhoods or zip codes is fraud, bribery, other types of corruption. You'll have some of that with birthdays, but much less.

Distributing by zip code means sending it to the community clinics in those zip codes. We are equipped to give out a lot of vaccine quickly. In zip codes where there is a lot of Covid, the impact on disease spread would be greatest. Your idea that it should not be distributed to these areas because you think it is a sneaky way to give racial preference is unfounded. It is a way to stop the disease where it is most common. It just so happens that the disease is more rampant generally in neighborhoods of color, and therefore in zip codes of more color, although that "color" in Oakland is in the Latin American immigrant community. 

Birthday lotteries are ridiculous. We're not about to cull people from lines based on birthdays. We won't care if a few people show up from other zip codes either. The fact of the matter is that we serve the patients who are catching it and dying from it. Can't imagine the denizens of Piedmont or Atherton descending on our clinic in East Oakland in droves to get the vaccine. Not a ton of Covid in the 94611.

[akiddoc]

 
So I go birthday lottery, in the interest of simplicity. The KISS principle.

What's the 1st S stand for?  Surely not simple.  Nothing simple about that!!

Suppose you're the single parent of a 4yo, 6yo, and 8yo.  How many times do you wait in line with all 3?  Four times.

Or are you going to make your rules less simple?  If you go with the address line (which is more available & less sensitive - can be off driver's licenses, utility bills, etc) instead of birth date, families can go together.

With addresses, publicity of the event can be focused to the right group, everyone knows that everyone in their area is going (for instance, school could close for the day if needed, rather than 366 different absences), etc.  Businesses can expect a slowdown on their neighborhood's day.

Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Birthday lotteries may not be as simple as you'd like, until you compare it with everything else
.
One obvious problem with neighborhoods or zip codes is fraud, bribery, other types of corruption. You'll have some of that with birthdays, but much less.

Distributing by zip code means sending it to the community clinics in those zip codes. We are equipped to give out a lot of vaccine quickly. In zip codes where there is a lot of Covid, the impact on disease spread would be greatest. Your idea that it should not be distributed to these areas because you think it is a sneaky way to give racial preference is unfounded. It is a way to stop the disease where it is most common. It just so happens that the disease is more rampant generally in neighborhoods of color, and therefore in zip codes of more color, although that "color" in Oakland is in the Latin American immigrant community. 

Birthday lotteries are ridiculous. We're not about to cull people from lines based on birthdays. We won't care if a few people show up from other zip codes either. The fact of the matter is that we serve the patients who are catching it and dying from it. Can't imagine the denizens of Piedmont or Atherton descending on our clinic in East Oakland in droves to get the vaccine. Not a ton of Covid in the 94611.