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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more hurdles are put in place, the worse the distribution will be. In places where equity has trumped efficiency (DC, MoCo, PGC), vaccine distribution is terrible. What these politicians fail to see is that this is not a normal fairness problem, because once someone gets the two (or one) shot(s), they are out of the demand pool. Therefore, the fastest way to get to herd immunity is to let the people who want it more take it first, and while that is happening, lay in the infrastructure to reach more reluctant / harder-to-reach communities. This will maximize herd immunity and minimize the chances for variants to spread. Instead, to virtue-signal to their bases, politicians in DC / MD (and the insufferable WaPo Metro section) just keep writing about equity and setting up more and more barriers to getting the shot, while our doses sit unused and the people who want the vaccine throw up their hands. This is a shameful failure of leadership but tracks with the current DEI obsession generally in our area.[/quote]

X a million. 
These half-baked policies fly in the face of public health. More people will get sick and die because of them. [/quote]
+1  First PP stated this better than I did in the other thread about MoCo vax.

I also find that the equity framework MoCo is using seems discriminatory.  If you are not of a certain race but live in high impacted areas, you don't priority.

https://wtop.com/coronavirus/2021/02/montgomery-county-to-prioritize-covid-19-vaccine-doses-by-zip-code/

And before someone accuses me of wanting the vax for myself, no, that's not the point. I'm perfectly happy to be in the last group to get vaccinated.   But, the longer it takes to get herd immunity either via vax or infection, the longer it will take for MoCo to get back to normal, which hurts lower income people way more than people like me, who permanently wfh and whose kids are doing fine with DL.

Movie theaters, restaurants, personal service shops, etc.. those are places that employ a lot of lower income people, and those businesses are hardest hit by covid.  And again, I don't use those services much, but I am trying to do my part by doing a lot of take out, 2x/week.  Pre covid, we didn't eat out that much.[/quote]

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