Vaccine Opportunism
Which New Yorkers Will Be First to Get the Virus Vaccine?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-vaccine.html
Publishing anonymized data on who is getting vaccine should disclose income levels so there is a check on those wealthy enough to get preferential treatment, and perhaps, just perhaps, defy the usual way a few get what the many do not.
Reports of juicy PPP grants to privileged groups shows that the favoritism toward the well-connected is alive and well, pun intended.
Great that health care workers and others most needy are to get vaccine first, but widespread criminal abuse of pharmaceuticals is to be considered, since medical practice confidentiality and privileges have cloaked deadly epidemics as evidenced in the opioid mayhem.
Black markets will probably flower and should be watched for by tracing who is granted a vaccine and who actually gets the injection.
And nickle and dime scams will arise offering phony vaccines in phony health care storefronts, and, following the illegal drug industry, on the streets, in drive-by vehicles, in school yards and on campuses.
Hey, this is not to add to the gloom and doom pathology, merely noting that economic forces drive rough shod over warning signs of refuge, caution and danger, even posting those signs to lure the unwary down streets of perfidiousness.
Sayonara Mr. Trump, please don't unleash a secondary calamity through mischaracterization of the vaccine coming to the rescue but only for those profiting from it.