D&D and the rising pandemic

[Umbran]

For the most part, the holdup is deciding who gets it. In this emergency, there wasn't enough time for any politicians to get involved.

Politicians shouldn't really be involved in the decision of who gets it first. That's a health science question, imho.

 

[Garthanos]

Microchips would be a bonus tbh. Injecte with the whole phone.

direct internet connection to my brain is on my list but that wont be some injected thing

 

[Thomas Shey]

Man. Double whammy here in Los Angeles. Covid is way out of control and the state/county can't get their acts together to actually vaccinate people.

And we haven't even probably hit the peak of the post-holiday cases yet, certainly not the New Years triggered ones.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Politicians shouldn't really be involved in the decision of who gets it first. That's a health science question, imho.

In the end, that'd still end up being connected to politicians, just ones where a lot of them had "Doctor" in front of their names. Resource allocation decisions are never free of politics.

 

[Garthanos]

Resource allocation decisions are never free of politics.

This

 

[Umbran]

Resource allocation decisions are never free of politics.

Fine, but then we need to recognize the difference between politics and Politics.

 

[MarkB]

In the UK we've gone the route of getting the first round of injections out ASAP, with the second set to be deployed as-and-when, despite the WHO advising that this hasn't been shown to be effective.

The exponential spread of the virus is definitely starting to feel more palpable. One of the members of our D&D club is currently hospitalised in the local COVID ward, and another is awaiting the results of a self-test kit.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I suspect the initial holdup was- as noted- politics/decision making/sorting of would-be patients into an orderly queue for receiving the injection. Vaccine triage, if you will. All of that goes out the window when you’re on the clock and it’s use it or lose it time.

I haven’t seen the distribution regs in person, but there may well be legal penalties for incorrect order of administration of injections, and that would definitely slow things down if they’re severe enough.

 

[Imaculata]

The Dutch government is the last out of all EU countries to start vaccinations, thanks to even more incompetence by our minister of health. Considering the group I'm in, I won't be eligible for the vaccine until somewhere in March or April.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Fine, but then we need to recognize the difference between politics and Politics.

While not unfair, I'm not sure the distinction is quite as sharp as I think you do here.