OT Should professional athletes be considered essential workers?

Fuck no.

 

Our economy is in the crapper - everyone is an essential worker. That being said, of course caretakers should be prioritized.

 

No, they are young healthy people, they should wait their turn.
First, health care workers.
Then, other frontline workers.
Then, those with health issues.
Finally, rest of us.

 

I'd add firemen, grocers, food industry workers, gas station attendents, mail carriers, teachers, pretty much anybody who keeps the power turned on in a storm....etc...

 

For these vaccines to work effectively everything must go exactly right. No margin for error! And there has got to be enough people to get it. I think I heard on CNN this morning that 1 in 4 people say they won't get the vaccine. Unfortunately, If Biden trys to mandate the vaccine that's only going to cause more chaos.

 

A lot of those count as front line workers. People performing essential functions in person.

 

Basketball players are essential economic actors.

As Patrick Ewing once pointed out, in a talk before economists at an academic seminar, "What people don't realize is that while athletes make a lot of money, they also spend a lot of money."

 

Well, I ain't in no nursing home . . . yet, but I should get the vaccine before them.
By the way, there are now two people who were in my dialysis ward who have been moved upstairs to the 8th floor to be treated for the Covid-19 infection. They came around Thursday and Saturday testing us for the infection. I had to turn them down because of my doctor's recommendation that I not do it since I've already been to the emergency room three times for nose bleeds that wouldn't stop. I'm scared to death of another nose bleed.

 

No. They can get vaccines at the same time as anybody else... Or I guess they could probably afford too buy some of Russia's vaccine...

Either way, they should be very low risk, and will certainly have access to the absolute best and latest treatments available at the time.

 

I marked other because this distribution won't be happening in just three waves... essential workers, then old and sick people and then regular Americans. From what I've read, yes essential workers and those at greatest risk will be getting it first, then people with less risk factors but still at risk, then from what I've read they are going to distribute to the most vulnerable communities and follow through with that until the people at the lowest risk get it last. So I think the most healthy and rich people in the country (professional athletes without asthma or diabetes) will get it second to last right before healthy children.

 

I foresee the RICH & connected getting 1st dibs, after of course our Dictator, and other politicians. Then Hospital Staff, 1st Responders, Seniors, People with Underlying conditions, Middle Income People, then Poor Stiffs. All 'bout those Benjamins.

 

You're probably right and that's very wrong.

 

I'm a peer recovery coach at a mental healthcare facility. Does this mean I'm getting first? I didn't know it was coming so soon.

 

I thought you were an Uber driver in Washington!