There seems to be a problem in most countries in deciding the priority of the people who should receive the vaccine. Everyone seems fairly united in thinking that front-line medical staff, patients, care home workers, residents and elderly people in descending age are the first priority, but who should be next?
So far, no one has come up with any rules, so I guess I will have to invent them.
Occupation, Risk and Location are the keys I can see at first glance.
Firstly, I would add all hospital staff (down to and and including cleaners - and the same for care and residential homes).
Medical and quasi-medical staff who work one-to-one with patients (GPs, specialists, dentists, opticians, audioligists - and I guess their reception staff).
The sick, pregnant and vulnerable have to be in about here (assuming they can be jabbed).
Next workers who have to deal with multiple people as part of their "service" (police, fire, ambulance, prison warders, customs, passport control)
Teachers - well I guess they come next, primarily to get the schools open (and then anyone else who works in a school I suppose)
Then other people-facing people would be transport staff, supermarket check-out workers, and probably receptionists of any kind.
Other staff working in positions where they come into contact with people would be waiters, general shop workers, hairdressers and staff in places like libraries.
Bona-fide international business travellers should have the jab (but that means they will have to have a private sector allotment I assume)
Workers who are residential have to be about here (oil-rigs and merchant marine spring to mind)
Moving to the lower tiers, office workers are low on my list, as are school kids.
Most university students seem so irresponsible it is almost not worth bothering with them, but they should be easy to get together so longs as the jabs aren´t administered in a lecture hall or anywhere named after a colonialist beneficiary.
Now the locations - "go to places" like hospitals are obvious, as are police stations, fire and ambulance stations. Schools, transport hubs could be in that group, but then you probably get to having jab centres for the others to actually "come to" (thus the people who man those places too).
Now we are just at anyone who works (and are still going down age groups in parallel)
Anti-vaxxers should be facially tattooed
Queue-jumpers should be imprisoned
Politicians should be barred until all other categories of "public servants" have been treated
Prisoners should be at the bottom of the pile
Hmm - well it wasn´t quite as simple as I thought and I had to go back and reorder a couple of times - and I am sure I have left some groups out, but then it only took me 30 minutes. Obvious thing to do would be to "leak" it and see if any new groups(s) appeared or whether it was just the ones mentioned trying to climb higher in the ranking. Hell, I am becoming a cynic
One thing is that I will have plenty of time to revisit the ranking - I reckon I will be lucky to see a needle before May and G will be a few weeks after that.
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