The goal should be to get as many people vaccinated as possible. Why has this been forgotten? Why is covid vaccination being restricted? And if we’re supposed to take individual responsibility, why are we not being allowed as citizens to decide what the goal of vaccination should be and therefore allowed to get the vaccine on a schedule that provides maximum benefits? I do NOT want the government deciding that reducing my risks is “not worth it” on some “30,000 feet view” of “good enough” – that’s an egregiously immoral standpoint. I value my life and my health. And I expect my representative government to represent me and the fact that my life has value! Vaccination has shown a reduction in risk of not just death and hospitalization, but a reduction of transmission and a reduction of the risk of long covid. Flu vaccination has been shown to reduce the number of sick days out of work for working age adults, why would you restrict vaccine access to old people only? Even if your only goal is catering to The Economy, restricting vaccines is counterproductive. I’m also concerned that restricting covid vaccines to the very very old, people who are most likely to be hospitalized or die, despite vaccination, will further erode the possible effectiveness of those vaccines, and undermine the public’s view of it, because it will look like vaccination doesn’t work, when in fact, it does work if it’s broadly distributed in a schedule that the data warrants. Vaccines should be offered to all adults on a 6 month schedule according to the data of waning effectiveness, so we can protect ourselves.
chloe kaczenski humbert