If we're going to insist that kids go to school, groceries need to be on the shelves, and restaurants should stay open, then this country needs to do what it needs to do to get the vaccine to those population segments.

2. That said, the tier system makes sense, especially when the supply is limited. It's not about one population being "better" than another, it's about making sure high-risk and potentially high exposure population are inoculated. It's already turning into a system where the rich are getting more and quicker access to the vaccine, and eliminating any tier system will further exacerbate that.

3. I can only speak for out here in the Bay, but the only time that teachers getting vaccinated early got in the news were due to some malfeasance by a South Bay Hospital. The head administrator over one San Jose hospital got in trouble for telling teachers from a local school to lie and say that they were hospital employees so that they could receive the vaccine. That was dumb on the hospital part, and they lost the ability to give vaccines (except giving second shot to everyone who'd received the first)

4. We need to stop with the half measures in this country. Either pump billions (or trillions) of dollars into getting everyone vaccinated in a timely manner. Failing that (due to supply issues), we need to pump billions (or trillions) into making sure that everyone stays home from like a month or two and only places like hospitals, grocery stores, and restaurants are open. If that means freezing rents, mortgage, and utility payments and bailing out the "non-essential" business for that time period, so be it. But half-assing is why we're still in this mess.

5. Otherwise, I agree with everything Strav said.