Although the ideal is to get everyone vaccinated, there currently are not enough doses, so while they’re making more, we get to argue about who should receive the doses that already exist. Different suggestions imply something about underlying ethical principles and intuitions. It seems mostly uncontroversial that health care workers ought to be vaccinated first. If you can remember back to when we used to go places on airplanes, recall the safety announcements: please make sure your oxygen mask is secure before helping others. The logic here is impeccable, if slightly counter-intuitive. Even if you feel strongly that you need to tend to the needs of others above your own, if you pass out from oxygen deprivation, you can’t help anyone, plus you’re dead too, so that’s the wrong answer. Securing your own oxygen first is thus not merely self-interested, it’s also the necessary condition for your helping others. This is allegorical for lots of things, but particularly on-point here: if we’re worried about a global pandemic, it’ll just make things even worse if the health care workers get sick. If they get sick, who will take care of