Older and immunocompromised people don’t deserve to be second-class citizens

Set the headline aside, we know how clicks are baited.

At first this article seemed a bit of a whine – not even in the sense of “complaint about something that should be accepted”, but rather it doesn’t really offer any novel information as payload, just a sustained high tone of anxiety.

But then I realized – that’s not it, it’s a trick, it’s mimicking the form of a certain kind of blue tribe table-pounding – a section on the importance of test-trace-isolate, some moral noodling – as a candy coating around the payload of adjusting those people to the reality that an overall response sized to the most vulnerable would be too costly and we will not attempt it