I got a shot and i am about as far from 1A as humanly possible. Mid 30s, good enough shape, low risk job. But if my parents are getting 3 calls in one week about places begging people to come in or basically giving away shots to anyone regardless of 1A status, and i call up one of those places and say “i am not 1A and not even close” and they say “come in at 12:50,” well, I’m going to come in at 12:50.
Trust me, the irony is not lost on me that I took full advantage of my white privilege to cut in front of a bunch of higher risk people and get a shot. I’m also aware that there are plenty of garden variety progressive bureaucrats in the state’s department of health would probably be not pleased that i got a shot. I also get that as far as the pandemic goes, nocera has probably been in the top percentile of rule followers. And in this case, a rule follower would generally range between resentful at best or angry at worst that they have followed many rules at great expense for a year only to see a bunch of d-bags cut in line to get a shot.
But like everything else with this stupid pandemic, the more you think about it, the less anything makes sense. If anyone comes out of this pandemic being more sure of themselves and more sure of what is right and wrong in the world, they are fooling themselves. We are all just awash in our own ignorance.
But i got my shot, so roll tide.
You didn't cut in line though, you didn't lie about your condition, you found a place that had excess supply and needed arms to vaccinate. There was a daily episode this week about the state of vaccinations. The dude asked the woman basically, do you have a problem with people cutting in line, and she was like "no, and no one should, this is a race between the vaccinations and the mutations, everyone that gets vaccinated is good, supply is no longer the issue". I believe the supply has actually not been the bottle neck for a long time, I am convinced that the issue is the different rules that states are imposing that are focusing on getting every old person vaccinated and equally distributing supply, despite it being easier to administer more shots in urban areas than the rural parts.
I am happy that I got it, it was probably because the rural hardasses in Kittaning couldn't be bothered to sign themselves up, so clinics had to open their floodgates to the pittsburgh city slickers. I am glad I didn't have to lie about smoking, I do think it's different to lie about your preconditions than to swap up an excess dose.