I have four parents, all over the age of 75. Randomly, three of them, in two different cities, got their first dose of COVID vaccine today. My father who has NOT received a vaccine is my parent at highest risk. He is incarcerated.
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Replying to @chesaboudin
Honestly those vaccines need to go to the elderly who’ve led a good, honest life before they go to anyone who’s committed multiple felonies or murders. I’m glad your dad is waiting in line.
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Replying to @genothefox @chesaboudin
Let he who is without sin withhold the vaccine.
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Replying to @Vincible37 @chesaboudin
Quantities are limited. Vaccines are being withheld from people, that’s just the reality based on supply. The question at hand is who should be at the front of the line, the middle and the back. Lawmakers in California want prisoners near the front. I vehemently disagree w that
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Replying to @genothefox @chesaboudin
You vaccinate in order of risk because that is the way to minimize deaths and disabilities. I have a problem with the idea that inmate lives ought to be sacrificed to protect people at less risk.
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Don't know who all of those people are, but their crimes, I assume, have earned them their sentences. But when we incarcerate people we have not said to them that their sentences include being last in line for a vaccine if there is a pandemic.
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Jesus, there’s a big difference between being last in line and front of the line, which is close to where they are in California.
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The sentence is the established punishment and there is no justification for adding additional punishment on top of that. Inmates are where they are in the line due to the high risk of exposure in congregate settings. Any move back in the line is more punishment.
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Right, congregate settings, kind of like nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
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Yes, but note that the state gives people in nursing homes and assisted living facilities the vaccine earlier than it does to inmates - correctly, in my mind, because COVID poses a greater risk to that population than to the imprisoned population.
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