I'm very sorry to hear about your grandparents, I hope your grandfather has a swift recovery. My grandmother is in a nursing home so I very much hope that they get it right here.
To answer your question... I don't know. I don't have enough information. I think when you say "old people" you mean "nursing home patients", right? Otherwise the comparison wouldn't really make sense. The problem with vaccinating the staff first is that just one covid case gets into the home and now most likely all the extremely vulnerable patients have it. That could be from a staff member for whom the vaccine wasn't effective, or an electrician or paramedic or I don't know what. Does that outweigh the fact that there's more patients than staff members? Maybe? I guess the scientists think it does or we wouldn't be doing it this way.
But again this isn't my point (and in fact I'm going to stop engaging on this argument after this comment because it's not one I have a stake in). The OP was talking about a trade-off between him catching COVID and an old person catching it, not saying that vaccinating him would be a best of both worlds solution for both him and the old person
I ultimately don't really care why the OP wants it before others, I believe that the best way to protect everyone (old folk included) is to cut the pandemic at its most potent vectors - in other words people that are forced to come into contact with many other people. If the virus is able to reach the vulnerable, we have already failed. You're right in that some other outsider might bring in Covid to the nursing home, which is why I don't think that people should be visiting nursing homes during this time, unless it is absolutely critical (like life or death level emergency)
I'm very sorry to hear about your grandparents, I hope your grandfather has a swift recovery. My grandmother is in a nursing home so I very much hope that they get it right here.
To answer your question... I don't know. I don't have enough information. I think when you say "old people" you mean "nursing home patients", right? Otherwise the comparison wouldn't really make sense. The problem with vaccinating the staff first is that just one covid case gets into the home and now most likely all the extremely vulnerable patients have it. That could be from a staff member for whom the vaccine wasn't effective, or an electrician or paramedic or I don't know what. Does that outweigh the fact that there's more patients than staff members? Maybe? I guess the scientists think it does or we wouldn't be doing it this way.
But again this isn't my point (and in fact I'm going to stop engaging on this argument after this comment because it's not one I have a stake in). The OP was talking about a trade-off between him catching COVID and an old person catching it, not saying that vaccinating him would be a best of both worlds solution for both him and the old person
I ultimately don't really care why the OP wants it before others, I believe that the best way to protect everyone (old folk included) is to cut the pandemic at its most potent vectors - in other words people that are forced to come into contact with many other people. If the virus is able to reach the vulnerable, we have already failed. You're right in that some other outsider might bring in Covid to the nursing home, which is why I don't think that people should be visiting nursing homes during this time, unless it is absolutely critical (like life or death level emergency)