OT Should professional athletes be considered essential workers?

I'm a wine chemist and I drive Amazon Flex on the side. Both are "essential" If measuring cold stability of a wine or delivering corn chips makes me essential, then hell ya sports should be too. But essential or not, you don't get the vaccine at first unless you have major risk factors or work directly with folks with rona.

 

Absolutely not. Regular people just like actors

 

The CDC doesn't even give an answer on emergency use until December 11th. Then there are a few more hoops to jump through, followed by the tricky logistics of shipping and storing something that needs to stay at 70 below 0. The experts I saw way in said that a realistic expectation is the beginning of the year but that is still really soon.

 

It depends on how much money they’re willing to spend.

 

Last as they will be in a very managed environment/protocol more than the average Joe. But they are young and more healthy than most plus their age group is hardly effected as a percentage compared to older groups.
Use science and data as a guide.

 

@SlyPokerDog , you turned this into a matter of “should” as opposed to “will”, which is way different from my original comment.

 

I thought the vaccine would be free for everyone?

 

My wife is one of those "essential workers" as she is a critical care nurse.
She said she would not be reluctant to take it as soon as available. But I still debate with her if we should use the elderly and the medically fragile as "guinea pigs". Maybe try it on others first?

 

You’re right. You just linked to this poll from the other thread.

So, the clear “ethical” winner would seem on the surface to be that healthcare and essential workers get the vaccine first, then geezers (my group, by the way) and other vulnerable portions of the population, and finally the general populace. There have been other ideas floated, including one that would give it to the younger folks right after the healthcare workers based, apparently, on the notion that they are the dumbasses most responsible for community spread. Be that as it may, one of the biggest problems is going to be getting the word to that group that getting vaccinated is the smart thing to do, particularly in the minority communities where it’s running rampant. If I was Adam Silver, I’d probably pitch the idea that I have professional basketball players with a ton of credibility in those communities all around the country who can help pitch the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. Seeing ads with guys like Dame and LeBron getting vaccinated could be a big help. Unless we get about 70% of the population vaccinated, the pandemic doesn’t end.