Another essential worker gets the vaccine

I’m the champion of the poor!

Chris Murphy, 47, is first in line for the Chinese Bat Wing vaccine.

“Look”, Murphy told FWIW, “it’s people of color who are suffering the most under this thing, and that’s why we’re denying old white people access to the vaccine and prioritizing black folks, criminals, and the homeless. But who’s the best person to protect the interests of those helpless, child-like people? ME! So I’m essential.”

Senator Dick Blumenthal, one of the elderly white population who, as beneficiaries of a racist health care system has, according to the NYT, forfeited his right to early vaccination, also got a dose, “but that’s because I’m special”, he told FWIW.

While it’s true that liquor store employees are also considered essential workers (probably more so than AOC, who was first in the receiving line, alongside Murphy), some politicians, like Tulsi Gabbord, have denounced the policy of putting old people low one step behind the young and healthy.

Our dictators do seem to be following a crazy policy: if the greatest danger from Kung Flu falls on old people (5% of those infected die, vs. 0.05% of younger), then it makes sense, to me, to vaccinate the vulnerable first and let the rest of the country go about its business.

The fact that we’re not doing that makes me wonder what, exactly, is the goal here; certainly not ending COVID deaths.