The science is settled: In allocating the vaccine, the most efficient way to reduce the spread of the global virus is to give it first to the elderly. Ah, but there’s a problem: Our major medical institutions, the CDC and the AMA, don’t like listening to the elderly. Moreover, the elderly, through no fault of their own, skew white. Due to an accident of history and demographics, the recent wave of multi-racial immigration has not (yet) reached that age cohort. And so even the CDC (until a wave of outraged …

‘What need you five and twenty, ten, or five?’ King Lear and the Vaccine Distribution Read More »