In hindsight, I would’ve liked to spend more time editing my original post (I was trying to get it out quickly). I think the framing I would use in hindsight is:
I’m hugely in favor of young healthy people finding vaccines that are either 1) going to be thrown out, 2) at a place w/ extra time slots that wouldn’t go to someone else, but 3) from the evidence I’ve seen, it seems like 1⁄2 aren’t options right now, and so 4) trying to find a way to get a vaccine right now seems likely to be taking directly away from someone else who is higher risk. There are still other ways to justify this (e.g. catherio’s comment about ethical offsetting), but because I’ve heard a bunch of rumors along the lines of “1/2 are options right now,” I wanted to share that the evidence I’ve seen suggests that’s largely false. It’s probably also not a big deal if someone gets a vaccine early, as it seems likely people will be able to seek them out within the next ~month.
In hindsight, I would’ve liked to spend more time editing my original post (I was trying to get it out quickly). I think the framing I would use in hindsight is:
I’m hugely in favor of young healthy people finding vaccines that are either 1) going to be thrown out, 2) at a place w/ extra time slots that wouldn’t go to someone else, but 3) from the evidence I’ve seen, it seems like 1⁄2 aren’t options right now, and so 4) trying to find a way to get a vaccine right now seems likely to be taking directly away from someone else who is higher risk. There are still other ways to justify this (e.g. catherio’s comment about ethical offsetting), but because I’ve heard a bunch of rumors along the lines of “1/2 are options right now,” I wanted to share that the evidence I’ve seen suggests that’s largely false. It’s probably also not a big deal if someone gets a vaccine early, as it seems likely people will be able to seek them out within the next ~month.