Nursing home workers are frontline medical staff which everyone here agrees should be vaccinated first. We are talking about grocery store workers, which there is of course an argument for being prioritized, but it is a different argument to the one you are having
My point is that we need to target the vectors of infection, rather than the people we're trying to protect. It seems counterintuitive, but it actually is easier to vaccinate everyone old people come into contact with than it is to vaccinate everyone who is old or otherwise susceptible to the virus, because there are a few critical points where the virus can actually spread to them, and people staying at home are the least likely to be a vector
I don't know the math on that personally, it could be so. You'd have to factor in the number of frontline retail workers, probably the largest block of workers there is right? And then some calculation of individual risk of negative effects, cause one healthy =/= one risky. More math that I could do but presumably some epidemiologist has done that calculation and its somewhat informing policy
Nursing home workers are frontline medical staff which everyone here agrees should be vaccinated first. We are talking about grocery store workers, which there is of course an argument for being prioritized, but it is a different argument to the one you are having
Sorry to hear about your grandparents.
My point is that we need to target the vectors of infection, rather than the people we're trying to protect. It seems counterintuitive, but it actually is easier to vaccinate everyone old people come into contact with than it is to vaccinate everyone who is old or otherwise susceptible to the virus, because there are a few critical points where the virus can actually spread to them, and people staying at home are the least likely to be a vector
I don't know the math on that personally, it could be so. You'd have to factor in the number of frontline retail workers, probably the largest block of workers there is right? And then some calculation of individual risk of negative effects, cause one healthy =/= one risky. More math that I could do but presumably some epidemiologist has done that calculation and its somewhat informing policy