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Okay, so over the weekend, it became quickly apparent that the CDC had completely

botched its rollout of the vaccines, at least in terms of its initial standards. So the

standards are still being set, it had not yet been finalized, but it became very clear,

and we talked about this last week at the end of the week on the podcast, that the CDC had been

taking into account race as opposed

to just preexisting condition and age as factors in who would get the vaccine, which is totally

crazy. I mean, that's utterly insane. The reason that is insane is because that is highly,

highly unlikely to save lives in the same way that tranching out by actual vulnerability to the

virus would be saving lives. And just on a pure statistical level, if you want to save the most lives, if you help the people who are the most vulnerable, you don't tranche out support to people who are less vulnerable. I mean, this is perfectly obvious to anybody who has a shred of both reason and morality. That's all it takes to come to the conclusion that the way that you give out the

vaccines is you find the people most likely to die and you give them the vaccine first. End of story.

But that is not, in fact, how politics works in the United States. It's one of the reasons

we've had trust issues with our public health experts ever since the beginning of this pandemic

because it was quite apparent that their priorities were not only saving lives. Their priorities were

not only getting the vaccine develops in the fastest possible time than getting it out to the people

who were most vulnerable. Their priorities were not taking measures that were designed to prevent

the most transmission. Their priorities were skewed in some cases. And again, we saw this very,

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