[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by Skip

Winn Dixie will start taking online COVID vaccine appointments next week. They seem to have different eligibility requirements. According to their published rules, healthcare personnel, pharmacists, dentists and therapists, like your shrink, plus long term care facility residents have FIRST PRIORITY over ordinary seniors.

Then firefighters, police, food workers, like strawberry pickers, postal workers, grocery clerks and stock boys, public transit workers, like UBER drivers?, and teachers, plus people 75 and over that are at HIGH RISK OF ILLNESS AND DEATH from COVID are SECOND PRIORITY.

Now here's the kicker... Then truck drivers, food service people like waiters and waitresses and burger flippers, construction workers, like carpenters, people in finance, like your broker or banker, IT people, like the moderators of this website, people in communications, like telephone operators and car warranty scammers on the phone, people in the law profession, like your lawyer, media personal like reporters, photographers, pressmen and, I guess, newspaper delivery people, public safety people, like crossing guards and public health officials, plus people aged 16 and over who have risk of LIFE THREATENING COMPLICATIONS from COVID are considered THIRD PRIORITY.

So I guess if you are not sick or considered "high risk" but just old, you CAN NOT get a vaccine shot at Winn Dixie.

Oh, plus before I get my shot at Winn Dixie, I have to sign a waiver and sign my rights away if Winn Dixie screws up giving me the vaccine. AND I must reveal my race on that form. <Any lawyers out there that want to comment on that requirement?

So much for "Seniors First"!

Skip

I’m delighted that a week ago I managed to find a place to get a vaccination, despite being not much over 65. However, I do think the policy of Winn-Dixie is in line with the federal recommendations and a much more sensible way of decreasing cases by making communication of the virus more difficult. I WANT supermarket checkers to get vaccinated. They are at much greater risk of getting sick and passing it on than I am. The Florida policy is heavily based on the state wanting to reward a large pool of faithful voters.

As for the race question, I don’t like it either, but in this case it is relevant. This is how New York City discovered that African Americans were at greater risk of dying if they caught the disease. The government legitimately needs to know if they are also more likely to have side effects from the vaccination.