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It's not only about minimizing total infections. If it were, priority would be given based on social sphere sizes, eg priests and postmen before old people. It
by jzwinck 6y ago
It's not only about minimizing total infections. If it were, priority would be given based on social sphere sizes, eg priests and postmen before old people.
It's also about giving people a vaccine they can believe in, which allows them to return to some of their normal activities. If everyone is 50% safe, no one has any real expectation that they can take any risks without being infected. If half the people are 95% safe, that half can do more things (travel long distances, go to school) while the unvacccinated half can continue to avoid risks until more vaccine is available.
- owl57 6y ago> It's not only about minimizing total infections. If it were, priority would be given based on social sphere sizes, eg priests and postmen before old people. Exactly how it is rolled out here in Moscow. It has never occurred to me that it's not the one and obvious way. But yes, the "Sputnik" vaccine has huge problems with giving people something they can believe in. Rolling it out in a "rational" order, as if they actually believe it works, is probably the most city government can do to raise confidence.