Name: Vaccine Rollout - Should The Elderly or Essential Workers be the First Recipients?
Uploaded: 2021-01-21T18:38:48.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Vaccine Rollout - Should The Elderly or Essential Workers be the First Recipients?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Vaccine Rollout - Should The Elderly or Essential Workers be the First Recipients?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-21. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience there was another disturbing moment where they
were talking about the rollout of the vaccine and Jamie who is that guy that
was he was advocating for not rolling it out to elderly people because elderly
people are predominantly white and that we should instead do it give it to
people
that are essential workers first because essential workers are more often
people of color and that this will balance things out like literally say if
more white people die it'll be better because we'll have more of a balance this
came from the CDC's Advisory Committee responsible for deciding who should get
the vaccine yes first or not yes who is the guy that said it though there was
one per and everybody blew a fucking gasket because that is really a crazy the
problem is like I don't remember the name of who said it but all members of
this
Advisory Committee supported it except for one guy who was like this is not
based
on science because if you look at the statistics over 80% of people dying in
this country from covid are people over the age of 65 if you want to save lives
you would give it and like 50% of people being hospitalized over 65 so yes if
you want to save
lives if you want to make it so our ICUs aren't like at max capacity then give
the vet
prioritize the vaccine based on age instead of occupation there is a concern
though that essential
workers are the ones who spread it more easily because they have to be in
contact you mentioned that
so it's not that cut and dry so these essential workers that are that are
getting
it like these folks have to be at work so if they have to be at work they're
more likely to
contract it if they get the vaccine and they're protected from it then it will
spread less likely
so there's there's two things there first is is who the CDC designates as an
essential worker
um i'll get to that in a second but all of this is built on the assumption that
this vaccine will prevent
the transmission of the virus which is what we're hearing from some so-called
health experts which
we're hearing from some in the media it's not been scientifically proven i've
gone back and looked at the
applications that um and then the data that was put forward to the FDA to get
approval from pfizer
and moderna and these vaccines have been scientifically established to uh
largely prevent serious health
complications and death from covid once you're vaccinated that has been
scientifically established
nowhere in their trials was it scientifically established that these vaccines
would prevent
the transmission of the virus and so i i see it almost every day and it's
incredibly dangerous where
media outlets and some some people who are uh healthcare professionals are
propagating this
this i mean it's a lie it's not true but they're basically saying that that
well you know people who
have to go and work in these jobs um that are essential workers they need to
get vaccinated so they
don't spread it or even you know first responders we had a we had a local news
station in hawaii who shared
a really emotional interview from a first responder younger woman who had just
gotten vaccinated and
she said like finally i can go and visit my grandmother and not be worried that
i am going to
give her the virus because i'm taking care of people who have covid every day
and what is so dangerous
about that is she got the vaccine if she has then gone and visited with her
grandmother
she could still and and dr fauci's talked about this and others because this
virus is is lives inside
your nasal passage you can be vaccinated and you can still pass it on and it
could have a a devastating
effect on someone for example who is elderly uh and who is vulnerable to this
and who has not gotten the
vaccine so anyone who is saying that well we have to vaccinate these people or
those people based on
their occupation because we don't want the virus to spread it has not yet it
has not been scientifically
established that the vaccines prevent that and this is why they're all you know
fauci and these other
guys they're like even if you're vaccinated you have to still wear the mask you
still have to do social
distancing uh because of the potential for that so i think that's such an
important thing for people to
know especially as people are getting vaccinated not to have this false sense
of security that just
because you've gotten the vaccine now you can go visit grandma in uh the
nursing home because you're not
going to expose her potentially or or put her at risk but the second issue is
is if you actually go on the
cds i've gone through all the cdc slides that the advisory committee put
forward on who is a frontline
essential worker and who's an essential worker healthcare professionals and
first responders obviously
yes they are so overworked they are overtaxed they should be getting the
vaccine right alongside
our elderly over 65 but if you start getting past them and the people who are
listed as frontline essential
workers according to the cdc you're talking about anybody who works in
manufacturing anybody who works
at a grocery store anybody who works at a oh gosh what were some of the other
ones uh in agriculture
in any sector um basically you're talking about i don't know half of all
working people
in frontline essential jobs and then you go on to the essential workers so
teachers and daycare workers
they're included in that as well and then you go on to essential workers people
who work at banks people
who work in the media basically almost everybody else who is in the workforce
as essential workers
so this goes back to the thing that you originally said is that part of their
decision-making process
was this kind of justice component and making decisions based on who gets the
va making decisions about who
gets to the vaccine first not based on who is most likely to die or get
seriously ill but instead based on
occupation
it's i i kind of understand why you would want the people that are forced to
work to get vaccinated before
people that are not forced to work that makes sense you know it's just it's
very difficult when you hear
that you're you're you want essential workers to get vaccinated and they could
still spread it because
that seems to me to be like that needs to be really expressed clearly very
clearly it's not being
expressed clearly much at all it is because again you let's say you have that
example i mean you know
people over 65 my parents included like you're you're pretty much stuck at home
yeah because of the day
the very real danger that if you go out and you get infected you could die yeah
um the danger of
this fact about how the vaccines have not been scientifically established to
prevent the
transmission of the virus that that's not being directly told to every single
person who gets it
is a real problem because then they go home yeah or they go and visit their
parents who they haven't
seen for a long time or their grandparents and could be carrying the virus and
transmitting it
unknowingly because they think like i'm good now right i'm safe and and so that
has to be part of
this i mean to me there's a direct scientific correlation based on facts that
if you look at the people who are
dying and who are being hospitalized predominantly they are people over 65
years old if we want to reduce
those numbers those are the people who should be prioritized to get this
limited number of vaccines
that we have first then followed by younger healthy people i mean it's to me it's
and by doing that you
know really we could reduce the numbers of covid related deaths by about 80
percent reduce the numbers of covid
related hospitalizations by i think it's like 48 49 percent that would have a
massive massive effect
on people's lives and and on our country yeah well said and uh weird that that's
not being said more often
yeah i i've been i've been pushing i've been pushing our both our state
leadership in hawaii and also
also the trump administration so that the trump administration uh just in the
last few days
i think it was at january 12th i think the department of health and human
services did actually adjust
their recommendations um and they said vaccines need to urgently go towards
people over 65.
it is something that they have strongly recommended to the states at this point
it's up to the states
to choose whether to implement it or not texas has texas is one of those states
that has
and there are a few others but at this point kind of the lives of our parents
and grandparents are in
the hands of the decisions being made by the governors and state health
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