Let the moral debate/high-horsing begin lol.
That's been my thinking as well. If you meet the categories to get a vaccine, get the vaccine.
We have to use our own judgement and reasoning. High-horsing is pointless. The only moral consideration is going to be the voice in the back of your own head telling you whether or not you cut the line.
A friend of mine told me she was getting a vaccine through the state because she technically qualified as a non-COVID facing healthcare worker as a basic science laboratory graduate student. From the description from the state, that distinction was
obviously meant for people in hospital labs running clinical samples, not grad students doing research. She described logging on to the state website at the exact time the new appointments opened because appointments were so hard to secure.
I view the above as equivalent to lining up outside a hospital Black Friday-style and pushing over the 78 year olds trying to secure a life-saving vaccine. Unsurprisingly, this individual has also gone to multiple large weddings, many of them halfway across the country, regularly travels (by plane) for pleasure, and has been keeping at least 10-15 small groups of people she regularly gets together with on weekends. Ironically, it may actually be a very moral thing for her to get the vaccine. However, despite qualifying as both a medical student (PhD and entirely non-clinical) and a laboratory worker, I'm definitely not the intended target for the vaccines right now, so I won't go out of my way to get one. I will jump on any opportunity presented, though, and once the very vulnerable are vaccinated, I plan on getting mine ASAP.
On the other hand, many of my labmates were offered the vaccine because they have non-clinical appointments at a hospital. They were emailed about it and given appointments at the hospital. Getting vaccines out, especially early on, was logistically tricky. Skipping on a vaccine explicitly offered to you does not guarantee yours goes to someone it would help more.
It's pretty obvious, imo, whether or not you're being immoral getting a vaccine. If you have to go out of your way to beat other people to it, it's immoral. If you getting vaccinated is just a strange part of the overall plan, regardless of whether it's a well-designed plan, you're probably not helping anyone by holding out.
