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I am sure she is on the high priority list. I hope she does take it as she is around many powerful people daily.
Considering that Trump, all his lackeys and children are all potential super spreaders I would say she is on the top priority list. There isn't a more dangerous covid hot spot in the country than the white house.
Pence isn't over 70 and got it. It makes sense that policymakers get it as soon as possible so they can continue to work in case there's an emergency. She, along with the rest of policymakers, are critically essential workers.
She would have been blasted by right-wing pundits if she had refused the vaccine while encouraging others to get it. That would also play into the hands of the anti-vaxxers. I don't blame her.
Language matters. It would be one thing to refuse because you are afraid of it, it is another when you ask for someone else to get it first who needs it. Yes there are some people who would blast her, but I think a solid majority of both parties would not if she requested someone else who needed it more to get it.
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She is basically the same risk factor as any young person working in a senior care facility.
Unless she is changing Nancy's Depends and giving Pat Leahy sponge baths, I don't see how it is ANYWHERE close to the risks a healthcare worker takes.
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She does not set policy on vaccine priority. I am happy she follows government rules and doesn’t pretend to know more and upend decisions made by sanctioned health
AOC pretends to know more than anyone else everyday. It is her raison d'etre. She may not set the priority, but there is nothing to say she HAD to accept it.
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She's actually a congresswoman. Not just some social media person.
Trump is actually President. Not just some TV reality person, but that hasn't stopped the Left from referring to him as such repeatedly.
Essential workers are going to get it before aged 65 people... truck drivers, teachers, other young people. wow, there will be a ton of people who now will claim they are essential workers, watch and see.
Language matters. It would be one thing to refuse because you are afraid of it, it is another when you ask for someone else to get it first who needs it. Yes there are some people who would blast her, but I think a solid majority of both parties would not if she requested someone else who needed it more to get it.
how do young congress members like AOC get to the front of the line to get the vaccine ahead of 80 year old nursing home residents who are overwhelmingly statistically the most likely to die from covid?
Essential workers are going to get it before aged 65 people... truck drivers, teachers, other young people. wow, there will be a ton of people who now will claim they are essential workers, watch and see.
That’s Rahm Emanuel’s influence. Like any good socialist (or Communist), he sees “worker bees” as having value to society, and retirees’ lives of little worth. Resources will be allocated accordingly.
He actually wanted ALL elderly at the end of the line - after all “productive” people had been jabbed. The decision to put 75+ in Phase 1, and move the 65 - 75 year-olds to a low priority, was a compromise.
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