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Talk about what is most upsetting or scaring you right now about the coronavirus pandemic.

<strong> Right now, I think I'm most frustrated by inefficient vaccine distribution in the U.S.</strong> It's not even that I disagree with who is prioritized. I have my thoughts, of course, but I think there's no truly fair way to decide who should get it first and the CDC's recommendations are at least reasonable. But<strong> doses of the vaccines are going to waste, and that's infuriating because there's no justifiable reason for wasting a prophylactic that can save so many lives.</strong> It's not the fault of any single person.<strong> It's an institutional failure,</strong> and so much more could have been done to plan for this issue. We've been in the pandemic for almost a year. There has been more than enough time to put together a functional program for distributing the vaccine. <strong> Some individuals that I do consider to be at fault, though, are the people who are cutting the line.</strong> Wealthy individuals who are traveling out of state or out-of-country in order to secure doses for themselves. These are people who already have every advantage - jobs that allow them to work from home instead of putting themselves at risk, savings enough to cover no-contact delivery of anything they could possibly want, and working health insurance in the event that they are infected.<strong> I understand the desire to protect yourself and your family. But it's absolutely despicable to cheat the system in order to gain an advantage.</strong> This pandemic has shown, more than anything, that human depravity has no bounds.