[makomk]

It really is about status, though. For example, here in the UK there was a huge amount of pressure to vaccinate policemen early but no such pressure for private security guards, even though security guards were at much higher risk of dying from Covid but the police weren't. Same with, say, teachers and bus drivers. The recurring pattern was that it was the professions with high status that got to push for priority, not the ones with high risk. Our government managed to push back against this in large part because the vaccination roll-out was going well and they managed to argue that prioritizing on things other than age would slow it down, but if it had been slower or some of the unions stronger they might have ended up having to give in.