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The govt FORCES people to live in confined quarters without protection. Heck yea, the science says rest homes and prisons should be next in line after doctors and hospital staff. Just cause staff is vaccinated doesnt mean they cant spread virus they picked up inside the prison to family etc.
Being in jail shouldnt be an automatic death sentence. Not everybody is a murderer on death row. And how about Trumps buddies he pardoned for their crimes, if regular prisoners should be subjected to confinement with covid, shouldnt they? No special treatment of CONVICTED CRIMINALS. A pardon doesnt mean they arent CONVICTED CRIMINALS.
In any event, this virus has a 99.5% survival rate. More than likely all they'll get is the sniffles if they get it. Some may have a lot worse symptoms, as I did...and even more might even be hospitalized, but that's pretty rare.
They aren't asking for freedom just fair treatment while they serve out their punishment. Prisons are breeding grounds for the virus with high density populations living together in closed quarters. It's also a danger to prison employees so makes sense to move them up.
All of us are under house arrest thanks to the strict covid shutdowns, so in that sense, we ALL are prisoners. The guards (mayors and governors and Fauci) order us when we can go out, where we can or cant go, etc.) so we are prisoners in the very sense of the word.
You aren't under house arrest but great hyperbole, you also aren't in a home with a few hundred strangers.
Prisoners should be last. The prison employees and healthcare staff should be first. If the prisoners didn't want to risk getting covid then they shouldn't have committed a crime.
perhaps the question becomes - should they have a choice to get vaccinated or not?
As to the question as posed, they're not going to the "head of the line", but they will have a justified priority based on "congregate living" over the general citizenry.
The question is whether you consider getting the vaccine as being primarily an individual reward or a disease control tool. If you see this so-called "society" as being primarily an agglomeration of free, independent individuals, then of course they're at the back of the line. If you think we (not only us on the other side of the prison bars and barbed wire, but their relatives who visit them and the guards who guard them, both of whom we share the air etc. with when they leave the prison) are, for better or worse, all in this together, then why shouldn't we vaccinate the people kept in a primary breeding ground for the virus? It's like draining pools of standing water when there's an encephalitis outbreak. Well, kind of; it's certainly more efficient than swatting mosquitoes one at a time.
Yes, same reason as the elderly and nursing homes. People in these environments are much more likely to transmit the virus to others and then become a strain on medical resources. By cutting out much of the potential to fill up the ICU with people from other institutions, we are leaving more beds and resources available for the general public.
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