Apparently, prisoners and inmates are being moved to the front of the line in many states to get the N1H1 vaccination. Even in front of high risk, honorable tax paying citizens.
Should inmates get H1N1 shots before the general population? I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts.
4 comments:
What would the reason be for moving them to the front of the line? Maybe because they are a high concentration of them all in confined quarters? Regardless...it doesn't seem right to put them above the high risk population. I would love to here the explanation.
It is because of the high concentration of people and the confined close quarters. An outbreak could have mass consequences.....I say too bad for them, they chose their own path.
Since they don't go out, how could they be infected? It is wrong to put them before honest people with us paying the bill.
There is much to consider. It is not as simple as it appears.
First of all, money. If there is a massive outbreak, we are morally obligated to care for them.
That can mean a lot of more of our money. Prevention is much less expensive. A penny wise and a pound foolish.
Next. To answer Mom and Dad's comment. Guards, delivery persons, visitors all bring in any illness imaginable. Some prisoners go out to the community on work details and then back in. That is how they acquire it and further spread it within and without the prison. They may be a closed society, but it is not hermetically sealed.
Next. They are prisoners, they are human beings.
We are measured, if I remember my religious dogma correctly, by how we treat 'the least of them'.
Finally, as for worrying about who gets it first, their numbers are paltry compared to those who may be lined up in front of them. It is a small percentage of the total number of vaccines. It is not as if there is not a lot more of the vaccine coming.
The risks of putting them dead last in any prioritization, I'm sure, has been weighed. I doubt the decision was made lightly.
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