Tennessee officials give COVID vaccine to family and friends

[luv2fly]

Outrageous, but why am I not surprised?

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Officials in Hamilton County, Tennessee have been caught giving the COVID-19 vaccination to "close friends and family" after turning away elderly people by claiming they had run out of the vaccine.

When a journalist questioned a car of seven younger people who had been vaccinated, the people in the car laughed and said, "We got contacts," as in, they're connected to people who could give them the vaccination over older people who need it far more.

Full story at:

https://www.rawstory.com/19-vaccine/

[Ilsa]

1. Some people are rotten to the core.

My almost octogenarian MIL asks almost every day when she will get hers.

[Blues Heron]

2. We have to think about who the worst speaders are

The first people vaxed should be the frontliners as well as the worst most likely spreaders. Sounds like they got a carload of them. Sucks, but in the end any vaxxed peep is a good thing.

[luv2fly]

3. You can't reward bad behavior

You just can't. These folks are the ones who then get away with things like this all their lives, creating more people like tRump and his ilk.

Somewhere along the line, some people decided teaching compassion is unnecessary. How wrong.

[Blues Heron]

4. of course, but in this case ANY vaxxed person is not a bad thing

the unfairness aspect is horrible of course, any corruption like this needs to be swiftly punished and rooted out. No question. But there is a silver lining here which is that highly likely spreader people are getting vaxxed. That's really important because these are the people that are partying.

[Blues Heron]

6. well if it stops the virus from replicating then do the math

fewer actual virus particles is a good thing any way you slice it.

[Demsrule86]

8. No, it is despicable.

[Blues Heron]

10. Right, but with a silver lining

fewer viruses out there spreading

Highly, utterly despicable though, yeah, no doubt about that

[SMC22307]

7. This type of news just chips away at me -- there are waaay too many flaming asshole Americans.

[Hav]

9. I'm wondering whether they'll get the second dose

It would be another case of those doses not going to the critical people but it'd be wasted otherwise I suppose. The one who is responsible should get prosecuted of course.

[Paladin]

11. Take names, develop information.

Take suitable non-violent revenge at a later date.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. And this surprises, no one.

This is the ugly truth about our local communities. And you can believe the status quo feeds on these networks.

[superpatriotman]

13. Care Nepotism

It’s going to take some time to roll out a vaccine across the population. It is what it is.