[Hankenstein2]

I wouldn't even charge for the privilege. As long as health care workers and nursing homes stay at the absolute head of the line, nothing else really matters until we hit herd immunity.

Publicize how desperate the rich are to get the vaccine and that 60% willingness to get vaccinated will go up (which is a large part of what the article said). I think charging money to skip, just causes a whole raft of other problems. Let the elites think they are pulling strings and just give it to them.

[mikelward]

And grocery store workers, and people with preexisting conditions, and the elderly, and...

[gruez]

>I think charging money to skip, just causes a whole raft of other problems.

Why?

>Let the elites think they are pulling strings and just give it to them.

But why not give it to them, but also try to extract money from them at the same time?

[michaelt]

Given the gigantic cost of lockdowns to the economy - billions a day - the government has likely already thrown an lot of money at vaccine production and distribution. If more money could be usefully spent, it would have been.

Therefore, if an 80-year-old is 300x more likely to die than 37-year-old Martin Shkreli, moving a dose from the former and to the latter is inefficient.

[Hankenstein2]

You then have to account for and appropriately spend the money which will inevitably be politicized and contentious.

[_qwfv]

I disagree. Various populations are at greater risk. Unhoused people, for example, should get the vaccine before me. So should anyone who has to work on site somewhere. Parents and care givers who care for children, etc etc.

I work in tech, I work from home and can have stuff delivered. Put me at the end of the line.