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>Is there a specific alternative option you have in mind Go to the nearest grocery store/ Firehouse / police station and give them to front line workers.

by treis 6y ago

runako 6y ago
Not sure about in TX, but in my state the list of people he actually vaccinated comes before front line workers. I'm impressed that he was able to find so many head-of-the-line people so quickly. (Further, he made house calls to sick elderly people, which is something sorely missing from our existing vaccination strategy.)
crispyambulance 6y ago
That sounds superficially reasonable, but would you get what appears to be a vaccination from some random stranger that shows up with a syringe? He distributed the vaccine to people that knew him (or were in his social network) in the very limited time he had left. The DA who pursued this should be dis-barred.
- treis 6y ago
  >That sounds superficially reasonable, but would you get what appears to be a vaccination from some random stranger that shows up with a syringe? With ID, sure. Besides, he's been the medical director of the Covid response for the county since April. His job was to put procedures to handle situations like this in place.
  - crispyambulance 6y ago
    Do you know what the ID of "the medical director of Covid response since April" looks like? I don't and neither do you or the firemen/police he would approach.
    - treis 6y ago
      It took me 20 seconds of googling to find a picture of the medical director for my county. But that's not really the point. The point is that part of his job was to come up with a plan for these situations. And he settled on give them to my friends and family. That's obviously a poor choice fraught with ethical issues. Like I said, arresting him is not the answer but he is not innocent.
      - crispyambulance 6y ago
        So, 20 seconds of googling for an HN user... yields the covid directory for your town. I just did it for philly and I got no picture id. The doctor didn't do anything wrong!
h_anna_h 6y ago
If I saw someone in the grocery store claiming to have a covid vaccine and asking people if they want to be vaccinated I would probably call the police. This feels like backseat driving/gaming.

>Is there a specific alternative option you have in mind Go to the nearest grocery store/ Firehouse / police station and give them to front line workers.

by treis 6y ago

>Is there a specific alternative option you have in mind Go to the nearest grocery store/ Firehouse / police station and give them to front line workers.

runako 6y ago

Not sure about in TX, but in my state the list of people he actually vaccinated comes before front line workers. I'm impressed that he was able to find so many head-of-the-line people so quickly. (Further, he made house calls to sick elderly people, which is something sorely missing from our existing vaccination strategy.)

crispyambulance 6y ago

That sounds superficially reasonable, but would you get what appears to be a vaccination from some random stranger that shows up with a syringe? He distributed the vaccine to people that knew him (or were in his social network) in the very limited time he had left. The DA who pursued this should be dis-barred.

treis 6y ago
>That sounds superficially reasonable, but would you get what appears to be a vaccination from some random stranger that shows up with a syringe? With ID, sure. Besides, he's been the medical director of the Covid response for the county since April. His job was to put procedures to handle situations like this in place.
- crispyambulance 6y ago
  Do you know what the ID of "the medical director of Covid response since April" looks like? I don't and neither do you or the firemen/police he would approach.
  - treis 6y ago
    It took me 20 seconds of googling to find a picture of the medical director for my county. But that's not really the point. The point is that part of his job was to come up with a plan for these situations. And he settled on give them to my friends and family. That's obviously a poor choice fraught with ethical issues. Like I said, arresting him is not the answer but he is not innocent.
    - crispyambulance 6y ago
      So, 20 seconds of googling for an HN user... yields the covid directory for your town. I just did it for philly and I got no picture id. The doctor didn't do anything wrong!

h_anna_h 6y ago

If I saw someone in the grocery store claiming to have a covid vaccine and asking people if they want to be vaccinated I would probably call the police. This feels like backseat driving/gaming.